Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[lenaitch]

The few times I saw Fantino on the tube I got the feeling that he only answered to God ....or was the other way around ....hmm?

Depends on who you asked.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Hoo boy...


More than 600 RCMP officers faced gender-based violence disciplinary charges since 2014, CBC analysis finds.

Researcher calls findings the 'tip of the iceberg'

This woman was asked by the RCMP to testify against her former husband, an RCMP officer, when he faced disciplinary allegations including domestic violence and sexual assault. CBC agreed not to name her because she fears telling her story could put her in danger.

The screams were so loud that neighbours across the street in this quiet, prairie community called 911.

Within minutes, RCMP officers from the local detachment responded. Inside the house, a woman was crying. So were the kids.

And the officers found themselves investigating one of their own.

"He was screaming and yelling," said the now ex-wife of the RCMP constable — the one the officers were investigating that night. "I was shaking. I was scared."

CBC has agreed not to name the woman because she fears telling her story could put her in danger.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/rcmp-gender-based-violence-analysis-9.7077762?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20British%20Columbia_1633_2121657

 

[The Bread Guy]

Ontario's cop IG: time to look at everyone - all 45 police services in Ontario, that is.

Ontario-wide probe on police corruption ordered amid Toronto fallout | Globalnews.ca

Ontario’s inspector general of policing ordered a review of the province’s police services and boards Monday amid accusations of corruption within Toronto police.

globalnews.ca

'Totality' of Ontario's policing landscape to undergo corruption probe: Inspector general

Inspector general Ryan Teschner says he will appoint an external person to conduct the inspection.

kitchener.citynews.ca

Ontario policing inspector announces provincewide look at how police, boards can protect against corruption

Ontario's inspector general of policing will conduct a provincewide independent review of police in the wake of a corruption scandal involving more than half a dozen Toronto police officers.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Late add: here's the info-machine's news release (text also attached if link doesn't work):

Ontario's Inspector General of Policing Initiates Province-Wide Inspection on Police Integrity and Anti-Corruption Practices

/CNW/ - Ontario's Inspector General of Policing, Ryan Teschner, today announced a province‑wide inspection to examine police integrity and anti‑corruption...

www.newswire.ca

 

[brihard]

Hoo boy...


More than 600 RCMP officers faced gender-based violence disciplinary charges since 2014, CBC analysis finds.

Researcher calls findings the 'tip of the iceberg'

This woman was asked by the RCMP to testify against her former husband, an RCMP officer, when he faced disciplinary allegations including domestic violence and sexual assault. CBC agreed not to name her because she fears telling her story could put her in danger.

The screams were so loud that neighbours across the street in this quiet, prairie community called 911.

Within minutes, RCMP officers from the local detachment responded. Inside the house, a woman was crying. So were the kids.

And the officers found themselves investigating one of their own.

"He was screaming and yelling," said the now ex-wife of the RCMP constable — the one the officers were investigating that night. "I was shaking. I was scared."

CBC has agreed not to name the woman because she fears telling her story could put her in danger.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/rcmp-gender-based-violence-analysis-9.7077762?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20British%20Columbia_1633_2121657

Napkin math puts that at about 60 allegations a year, maybe half or so established, across a force of 19,000 or so. Per the article it covers a pretty broad spectrum of misconduct, which could probably be pretty fairly equated with everything CAF would call “harmful and inappropriate sexual behaviour”.

One is too many, obviously. In terms of comparability, does anyone have similar numbers for CAF, or for other large professions or segments of society? I always wonder about a top line number that’s stripped of meaningful comparison. If half of these allegations are factual - the ‘conviction’ rate reported is lower, but I’ll assume, reasonably I think, that a lot of those who resign in the face of a conduct allegation in fact ‘did the thing’ - that works about to about 0.15% of RCMP members per year. That lands a bit differently from ‘over 600’.

It would be nice if the different types of captured behaviour were broken down by quantity, not just by what percentage resulted in convictions per category. An inappropriate joke or comment that results in a conduct process is distinct from an act or physical violence, or alternatively from looking at porn at work. More granularity there would be useful. I also wish this had been cross tabulated with criminal charges arising out of the same events; normally police conduct matters pause until criminal prosecutions conclude, so this data should be recordable and obtainable.

It’s good to see that their conduct approach in the past few years has been changed to go after this behaviour more forcefully and to (rebuttably) presume dismissal for more serious misconduct of this sort. Unfortunately our profession will never fully rid itself of this behaviour, because cops are humans and some humans suck- but we should be markedly better than a comparable cross section of society.

 

[dapaterson]

The CAF does not release information about summary proceedings; the RCMP transparency is very welcome and a sign of an organization that wants to improve.