tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post6392120798310939825..comments2024-03-28T15:07:43.642-07:00Comments on Gangsters Out Blog: Police abandon Public Access in the DTESDennis Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-44891744492945410062014-05-20T10:59:23.993-07:002014-05-20T10:59:23.993-07:00You Know that line the police always use when they...You Know that line the police always use when they want you to answer a bunch of their questions, or consent to a search....."Well, if you haven't done anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about".......<br /><br />Same applies to being photographed/filmed in the course of their duties. They can not like camera's all they want, the fact is the public has a perfect right to record LEO's in the course of their duties as long as they are not interfering with such, in other words they need to be a certain minimum distance away, but as long as they are, the police have nothing to say about it. The simple act of recording by people who are interacting with police (traffic stop, their own front door, etc.) is not interference. "Turn the camera off" is an unlawful order, therefore "failure to comply with instructions" is an unlawful charge.<br /><br />Any cop who has a problem with non-interference recording who objects to this is telling you something about him/herself and how they view their job. "I don't like it, so you can't do it".<br /><br />"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about". Goose, meet gander.trailrunner78https://www.blogger.com/profile/06694102447472594355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-29268719705328671462014-05-19T14:39:27.060-07:002014-05-19T14:39:27.060-07:00"The VPD, West Vancouver, Delta and New Westm..."The VPD, West Vancouver, Delta and New Westminster police forces all have similar problems."<br /><br />Exactly. The problem is the "culture of policing" in Canada, and this begins, and ends, with the the RCMP and it's history. Not the deeds of a few heroic men here and there that they speak of (and there are those) but it's true history as an organization that by and large does as it pleases, running it's own affairs mostly apart from the public eye or any real accountability.trailrunner78https://www.blogger.com/profile/06694102447472594355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-49379037336842738102014-05-18T17:34:58.442-07:002014-05-18T17:34:58.442-07:00Good article. We need to remember we can't thr...Good article. We need to remember we can't throw out the baby with the bath water. Corruption is clearly a concern but not all cops are bad. This is the follow up article in the paper: <br />http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/rcmp-tracks-its-own-corruption-implements-strategy-to-reduce-itDennis Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-28300763525195266572014-05-18T17:32:17.929-07:002014-05-18T17:32:17.929-07:00Better yet we could combine them all into one fede...Better yet we could combine them all into one federal force and call it the RCMP :) Just kidding. It's like ICBC. I don't care if people have private or public car insurance. It really doesn't matter to me. Likewise, I don't care if we have a regional federal or city police force. My only caution is that a regional police force won't solve all our problems because the VPD, West Vancouver, Delta and New Westminster police forces all have similar problems. We need public accountability at all levels. Nevertheless, this particular concern is the result of City Hall not the VPD.<br />Dennis Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-51516399110501418882014-05-18T11:27:12.731-07:002014-05-18T11:27:12.731-07:00https://ca.news.yahoo.com/figures-rcmp-study-corru...https://ca.news.yahoo.com/figures-rcmp-study-corruption-police-force-175008523.html<br />Have a glimpse into the causes for many RCMP officers root cause for being frustrated! <br />There will never be a return to any trustworthy RCMP Canada wide policing as once was decades past!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925673735105404346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-41289557482036512192014-05-18T11:00:29.757-07:002014-05-18T11:00:29.757-07:00Agent K, your are starting to criticize the police...Agent K, your are starting to criticize the police, have you seen the light? Now think about promoting ONE police force for the GVRD and think about how many regional policing issues that step alone will solve. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com