Mainstream Media Please Don’t Blame the Chief
Saunders!
Here is the Toronto Police Academy. It's a Police Academy
where are preparing the new recruits for law enforcement “To Serve &
Protect” the public. Most of the courses revolve around what they call
"Police brutality and extrajudicial executions." Who are the
"Victims?" We have to ask that question. They are children, mothers and
elderly people living in the slums of public housing. They are the poor people
belong to the marginalized communities. They are social activists who are
claiming for justice. They are starved mentally ill people who are and were
abused and tortured by the system. They are the people of color and other
minority groups. “They become the targets of those who learn their lessons at
the Toronto Police Academy Nazi Gestapo”
By Edward KeenanColumnist
Fri., May 20, 2016
One year ago, police Chief Mark
Saunders was sworn in. He was a bit of a wild-card pick — less-known than other
candidates — but the one thing those who chose him emphasized is that he won
the job because he’d bring about “transformative change.”
“Not only expressed desire to bring
about change, but the ability to bring about that change,” Mayor and police
board member John Tory said of the criteria that led to Saunders’
unanimous selection. He’s someone who “will be able to make change happen,”
then police board chair Alok Mukherjee told CBC.
“History teaches us that the greatest
opportunities for change often come when the willingness and desire to change
are matched by the urgency for change,” Saunders said, in just about the
changiest speech you could ask for, at his swearing-in ceremony.
“The stakes are higher than ever
before. But so are the opportunities to take bold steps. We have no excuses. We
know what we have to do,” he said. “Waiting is not an option.”
Judging by the words of Saunders and
those who chose him, the Toronto Police Service was about to see more change
than a TTC farebox. Many were skeptical — after all, Peter Sloly was seen as
the candidate for chief most likely to transform the force; lower-profile
Saunders was thought to be favoured by the police union and to be less of a
boat-rocker.
But Saunders had an answer to that
skepticism in his speech: “Judge us by what we do. I’m interested in results,”
he said. More information in the Toronto Star...
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