An ironic statement if ever there was one. Does that mean that you are my kind of an idiot? In any event,
you're syntactic disability makes reading
you're posts difficult. See what I mean? Frikkin' barrel-sucking, illiterate bully...
I wasn't defending the police but rather questioning opinions such as yours which are not based on any actual facts.
Fact: The news articles in this thread detail many instances of police corruption, including findings in courts of law.
Fact: There are numerous criminal actions being pursued against 52 division police relating to a violent police extortion and drug-running racket in the club district. Among those charged are two of former police chief McCormack's sons as well as the former head of the police union. Allegations in sworn court documents include assaulting informants, stealing money from drug dealers, giving false testimony in court, falsifying court documents and faking search warrants.
Fact: According to affidavits filed by the RCMP anti-corruption task force, 83 per cent of the charges laid by the 52 division drug team between 1996 and 1999 were stayed or withdrawn because of questions about the officers' credibility.
Fact: In May 2006, Sgt. Jim Cassels, a 30-year veteran of the force and a member of the internal affairs unit tasked with investigating the 52 division corruption, stated publicly that police brass routinely covered up cases of brutality and corruption, including numerous cases beyond those at the centre of the pending 52 division criminal trials. Cassels faces internal police charges for his unauthorized comments. In November 2006 Neal Ward, another member of the internal affairs unit, confirmed Sgt. Cassels' assertions and said that he and other task force investigators are waiting for action on 14 additional cases uncovered by the task force and brought to police management when the task force concluded in 2004.
There is a big difference between an assertion and actual evidence for systemic and total police corruption.
I agree completely, which is why I was careful to also cite allegations of widespread corruption made by a police officer who went on record about the widespread corruption within 52 division. I introduced this evidence in addition to the ample evidence of corruption that was set out in the other press accounts that started this thread.
Again, you speak inclusively, as in the police as all the police. Can you prove that all police are corrupt? Or is it simply a belief on your part?
Where did I say that all police are corrupt? Learn to read. The only thing I need to prove is that I have evidence to support my assertions. To that end, what I have said and will continue to say is that the corruption within 52 division (you don't dispute that such corruption exists, do you?) means that a reasonable person should be afraid to cooperate with the police because doing so would put his/her personal safety in jeopardy. As a result, any "lawlessness" that exists in the club district is exacerbated because even the non-corrupt police will be tainted by the presence of corruption.
I think, on a balance of probabilities, it is safe to say that widespread corruption exists in 52 Division. Can you prove that to be false?