The attitudes of today's police are instilled at depot. Those three cops that beat up that man in Vancouver, I wonder if they trained together. I also wonder if the cops today are getting much of their attitude from Hollywood.

This is a very troublesome report. I feel a lot less safe and less secure after reading it than I did before.

Looks like it's just another aspect of an ailing society that somehow got on a slippery slope to wherever.

The whole judiciary system is in disrepute here in BC, from the Judges, down to the John Wayne type sheriffs.
First, those Mounties you speak so eloquently of,(I must ask, are all you judges oblivious of what occurs around you) we must purge from BC and return back to our first line of defence law enforcers, our own Provincial Police Force. The Mounties are inherently corruptable.
Their reputations are tarnished beyond repair. People do not trust them.
Judges are far to close and cosy with the politicians in Victoria, Many BC Judges have made assine judgements--rulings in many serious criminal trials.
Why is it you guys(judges), only express your thoughts or feelings after you retire or step down? .
Is it because you lack back bone or political will?
Now, your opinions are no more credible than Joe six pack.

There is no perfect system. We all agree that police are necessary, but no matter who handles it, there will always be a segment of the population that doesn't trust them.

A very complex issue with many questions and few answers.

MrPG says, A very complex issue with many questions and few answers.

Bullsh!t that's exactly what the judiciary wishes for peons like you to think, they don't want people to question their private inner sanction and self appointed authority.
They want to remain answerable no one but themselves, just like the Mounties.
Even the legal and financial mess we are in today is due in large part to inept legal minds who have been either gorging themselves at the public trough or asleep at the switch, you can take your pick. These characters, who make and control the laws, that we must live under, are given far more credit than they deserve.
The very cops this gavel banger praises, are the one and the same who are killing, tasering, and beating innocent people and what do these guys in their robes do,nothing, they sit on their asses and do squat.
I almost forgot, all the best minds in BC have gotten together and decided they would inflict the full force of their law on a chubby guy in bountiful, who just happens to have too many girl friends. Don't go after the real bad guys, jeez they have guns and will shoot back.

Another big issue is police investigating police, that has to stop. This is a democracy, not a police state. This would help improve their credibility. Do not use retired or ex police.

furtree, thanks for proving my point.

Your welcome peon.

Name calling = what you do when you don't have a strong argument. Thanks again.

The bottom line is, our justice system is a huge goldmine for our lawyers and politicians.

So why would they change it?

The only way it will change is for the people to demand it.

Unless you see a country wide revolt, there is no use bitching about it cause they are not going to do squat about it.

"It is their capability to engage in physical confrontation with thugs, thieves and rowdies on a 24/7 basis that ensures us safety and security in our homes, and as we go about our communities."

They used to, now they stand back and tazer you.

If you're a thug, thief or rowdy, you deserve a few thousand volts.

MrPG, I would direct your attention to a couple of high profile tasering cases on persons who were not a thug, thief, or rowdy, perpetrated by our fine Mounties right here in B.C. The 84 year old man in a hospital bed in (Kelowna?) who refused to surrender his 'weapon' a small jack knife that he was waving around in his delerium, scared the three fuzz' so bad, they had to taser him, in the interest of public safety you know. You never know, he might have taken combat training just before he checked into the hospital with heart problems. Then another one in Kelowna; an elderly man who did not immediately get of his car when ordered to by the fuzz cheeked quivering cop, he got tasered too,that occurence was witnessed by the old guys' wife. However, even with that evidence, thank christ they have tasers! can you imagine how many people would be shot dead by todays breed of cops who are seemingly untrained for physical confrontation? Taser/shoot first, ask questions later. Lost has it right, the lawyers do nothing but profit from the travesty that is our justice system.
metalman.

I wasn't there and neither were you so you have no idea what the circumstance of the situation was.

I've said this before, I probably would tazer first and ask questions later rather than risk bodily injury or worse wrestling with someone not in their right mind potentially with a weapon.

These men and women have to make split second decisions, potentially life and death, often with little or no information to go on. Most of the time, they'll make the right call... it's all too easy to sit back from a safe distance and question when things don't go perfectly.

All rhetoric and ranting aside, the RCMP are our police and will continue to be in the forseeable future. I just dont see judging the whole institution by the actions (alleged in some case)of a few cops. It may feel good to portray our police force as out of control and disfunctional but the fact is that they are amoung the best in the world. They work. They also do a job most of us wouldn't. Again, people stop using your anonymity to say things about a group of people you would never say to their faces (no, not because they would taser you).
I am not defending the taser incidents described above, as i know little about them. I am saying that people are getting a little extreme in pretty much every discussion of the police. For the record, a couple of years ago i was assaulted by an old guy with a walking stick. I didnt taser him but man, he deserved a shot of something.