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2 B.C. police officers charged with sexual assault
(bc.ctvnews.ca)
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I'm Canadian and have had run ins with cops. I also know others who've had worse run ins than I did, like starlight tours in the late 70s, and being strip searched in the middle of major thoroughfare in Saskatoon.
The cops I've had interactions with have shown me they're part of a gang, making up stories about people so they'd be arrested and charged, only to have the charges dropped 8 months later after they'd lost their job and housing.
While you have your own experiences with them, so do I and so do others.
If nothing else they should be defunded, if not completely disbanded.
If your point is that cops are corrupt, I agree. I also agree that resources given to cops would be better allocated to specialists to deal with certain situations, like a mental health crisis worker sent to a distressed member of the public, instead of police.
I don't know about disbanding the police. For all their faults and flaws, they do also do work that I'm sure most people wouldn't want to be involved in. I'm sure those occurrences are far and few between, but still.
The George Floyd reference seemed somewhat off topic, but I appreciate your level headed response nonetheless.