High Ranking Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[brihard]

You might be surprised. I'd say that roughly 10% of my gun club membership is active or retired LEOs.

Oh, I know plenty are. I just think a majority are not.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

You might be surprised. I'd say that roughly 10% of my gun club membership is active or retired LEOs.

Hmmm. No doubt, but that just adds to the mystery. IIRC, most abuses of police PAL stops appear to be mostly on the west coast. I seldom see reports of cops abusing firearms owners, because of lack of knowledge of the laws, from other areas of the country.

 

[Haggis]

Oh, I know plenty are. I just think a majority are not.

My club is primarly handgun users. I know a lot of LEOs who hunt who aren't club members. Long gun laws are pretty simple once you take the time to understand the nuances of storage and transportation. Restricted are not.

I got stopped about 6 or so years ago during my birth month right after pulling out of the gun club. Cop asked if I had any firearms in the car. I said "You saw me pull out of the range." "So, yes" he says. "Properly secured, unloaded and in the trunks" says I. "Good" he says,"I'm not worried about those, just the people with them under the front seat." I'd been stopped to ensure my registration was up to date as I hadn't yet put my new sticker on the plate. We had an amicable chat and a few months later he was sitting in a new member class.

 

[lenaitch]

An announcement that raises more questions than it answers, and no doubt a bunch of defence lawyers are now looking for a copy to impugn police officers in Sault Ste Marie.

Message from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service - Sault Ste. Marie Police Service

Message from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service - A modern police service for a safer tomorrow.

saultpolice.ca

Edit: local news article that spurred the announcement.

Leaked police recording offers 'a slice of the culture,' researcher says

'Those guys are untouchable': Recording of a comedy roast obtained by a researcher contains audio of police cracking jokes about sexual harassment, trumped-up charges and destroying evidence

www.sootoday.com

From the article quoting the source:

Disciplinary measures for the officers involved in the recording depend on whether the representations being made are embellishments and jokes, D'Orazio said, or if they are based on facts and reality.

"Based on what I heard, I think some of the comments tend towards the latter," he said.

Let's hear it for the rigours of research. I suspect this is one 'post doctoral fellow, public interest researcher and freelance journalist' who won't get a lot of phone calls returned in the future.