BRINGING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE INTO DISREPUTE

Stupidity can explain doing something dumb once. Stuborness or maliciousness might explain the same thing a second time. If our O.P.P. (Ontario Provincial P...ks) do this a third time there had better be serious consequences for them. Charging citizens with bull shit offences that are never going to make it to court is an abuse of authority and simple bullying. Are we back to the times that police are hired because they are the biggest, baddest, stupidest and toughest sob's out there?

Last Friday's Waterloo Region Record gives us this story "Drunk-canoeing charge still irks". There was no motor vehicle involved and there were no children at risk. A father, husband and citizen was charged for being over .08 while PADDLING a canoe. Oh and his buddy wasn't charged because the buddy was in the front of the canoe hence not the "driver". From this point on it just gets worse. His DRIVER'S licence was immediately suspended. As with the first time this bogus charge was laid, the previous year, the Crown dropped the charge but nobody informed the victim of this police harassment. He hired a legal services firm to defend him and they all went to court to find nobody there but themselves.

This kind of behaviour by our police forces should not be tolerated. Are some of them bored and simply trying to provoke honest citizens into a confrontation? What are the authorities going to say when a citizen is severely injured or killed and a police officer is in hospital having a paddle surgically removed from his arse? Police are supposed to be peacemakers not troublemakers. Police are supposed to be there to reduce fights, confrontations, injuries and deaths not provoke them. Weed out that hopefully small percentage that give you all a bad name.