ABOVE THE LAW. FIRST IN A SERIES PROBING POLICE CONDUCT IN ONTARIO

[Angi]

A Star investigation has found lack of results and little accountability from the $7 million a year Special Investigations Unit that probes police accused of injuring or killing civilians.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/882189--are-these-cops-above-the-law?bn=1

A Toronto police officer inexplicably floors his gas pedal, speeds into an illegal right turn and runs down a grandmother, severing her brain stem and killing her instantly.

An OPP constable wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a baton and pepper spray shoots and kills an intellectually challenged 59-year-old man holding a small pocket knife.

During a traffic stop near Canada's Wonderland, York Region officers rough up a small, 50-year-old accountant, breaking his arm and leaving him roadside.

A Peel Region police officer sucker-punches a handcuffed prisoner and breaks his jaw in two places.

Two teens chatting on the grass in a public park are run over by a Durham Region squad car, suffering extensive injuries.

All of these officers were quickly cleared by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU)

 

[Zafrin]

In its 20-year history, the SIU has conducted at least 3,400 investigations and laid criminal charges after only 95 of them, according to a Star analysis. The SIU does not track what happens to those it charges. But the Star has, and found only 16 officers have been convicted of a crime. Only three have seen the inside of a jail — as inmates.

Interesting read.

 

[Teala]

A few bad apples does not make the majority of cops bad. My faith stays with the boys.