When police become suspects
Le Devoir’s investigative duo of Améli Pineda and Stéphanie Vallet looked into incidences of sexual or domestic violence by police and found that half the criminal charges faced by police officers in the last five years were connected with domestic or sexual violence – a rate twice that of the general population.
They also investigated what happens when a police officer is accused of domestic or sexual violence – and, often, the officer is able to shake off the accusations with a promise of good behaviour.
Tuesday, a further piece by the duo looks at how police close ranks in solidarity with colleagues accused of crime.
jeather 10:13 on 2024-06-18 Permalink
” l’ignorance totale du gouvernement et des autorités concernées, qui ne tiennent aucun registre en la matière.”
This isn’t accidental. I did mention this when I said the other day that assuming that police here are like police in the US, the best way they could reduce crime is by not committing it themselves. And we know that people are much less likely to complain about crimes committed against them by a cop, to a cop, and I assume that prosecution here is also less likely to push ahead.
Love the cops who used their extra powers to stalk/abuse/harass people and said that of course when they were cops they were bastions of respectability, and the judges who believe them.