Oh, By The Way....

A news item I heard out of the corner of my ear yesterday caught my attention...

...the Special Investigations Unit has cleared the police for shooting and wounding a robbery suspect who first fired at them with a shotgun.

You heard me right.

The police had the nerve to fire at someone who was firing at them, so we had to have an investigation.

Every time someone gets hurt during a police action in Ontario, there has to be an inquiry. Regardless of the circumstances.

The background on this was that a shotgun robbery took place, the police tracked the suspect, and the suspect fired on them in an attempt to flee. The Police fired back, wounding the suspect.

This all happened near the end of January. Its now the end of March and the SIU says it was OK to fire back.

Gee thanks for your approval.

You might think its good to have an inquiry of this sort, it keeps the Police from just firing their weapons willy-nilly at loiterers and graffiti artists.

What it actually does is further empower the criminals: if the Police are gonna think twice about firing, the crooks can get away with more.

There will come a time an Officer will be severely hurt or worse, because they will hesitate before using 'lethal force' for fear of the inquisition that follows.

You just better hope its not you or someone you love that the Officer is trying to protect when that decision has to be made.

Its time to take rights away from the bad guys and give them back to the good guys.

DJW

DJ tried to find a news link for this, but the media found it to be un-newsworthy.