WATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE APPEAL $ MULTI-MILLION AWARD

My bad! Sorry, they appealed a $5,000 award. This is a police force with something like a $135 million budget. Today's Waterloo Region Record advises us of their appeal in this story "Police lose appeal in case of drug officer's stolen handgun". Waterloo's finest illegally entered a home , kicked the family out for three days while they searched for a gun they themselves had lost and then obtained a search warrant to do what they'd already been doing for three days. Oh and the "evidence" they had came from "...one witness, a petty thief and drug addict who had told conflicting storieas.".

As ridiculous , invasive and asinine as all this is, then the Waterloo Regional Police appealed a $5,000 damages award given to the family who were illegally kicked out of their own home without food, clothes, money and identification. If this happened in the States the family probably would have been awarded $5 million by a sympathetic jury. But our idiot cops without civilian oversight, common sense or one iota of empathy then appeal a stinking $5,000 award for damages. Have they completely lost all perspective? Through their own incompetence they literally left a loaded handgun lying on the ground and then in their zealousness they attack an innocent family on the advice of a drug addict. I swear to God it's only a matter of time before these idiot cops and their supervisers' arrogance and stupidity costs lives. The irony is that it could well be a cops life as they continue to illegally break into people's homes because they can and they are unaccountable. How incredibly stupid for a spouse and children to lose a parent because once more some idiot senior police officer authorizes an illegal breakin to the wrong home. Do the cops think that just because they are the "good" guys that some honest citizen with the ability to defend his family and home won't do exactly that? This is neither the first nor probably last time this crap happens. Will it take a tragedy, solely caused by unaccountable and overzealous senior officers, before citizens stand up and say no more?