Also, to the police, the action that the lady just handed over ticket to the child in front of the public was challenging their authority, that probably made the police, who thought they are with all the powers mad.
tapioca 發表於 2009-10-20 23:38 
The keyword here is 'mad' and 'being challenged'. I can't say I know this for a fact, but the impression I have on the police I am given is that they have a huge ego. When they are 'mad' and considers themselves as 'being challenged', they will exercise their power to the limit just for show - aka. power trip. When is mad a reason for a high trained and highly paid professional? Shouldn't the police be much more professional as they are trained to handle tough situations, and their job is to bring people to be tried by the judicial system. Not to pre-judge them and exert as much force as the protocol allows them to, even if it's unnecassary for them to get the job done? Their ability to use force is to keep the public and themselves safe, not to punish those who make them mad and is perceived as challenging their authority.
Aka. 4 RCMP could easily have wrestled Dzekenski + stapler down to cause minimum harm, but they chose to wrestle + choke him after 5 tasers because they can and it's more convinient. For this skytrain incident, we can speculate that the piano teacher is lying, and indeed assaulted the transit police. However assuming that part of her statement is true, the transit police totally did not have to wrestle her down and hand cuff her for 15 minutes to get the job done, but they chose to do so. Considering the size of her as shown in the photos, and the figure of the typical Asian, using common sense, I just fail to see how it was appropriate use of force, whether or not the police protocol grants them to do so for such situations.
The problem is, too often our legal enforcement exert judgements based on their ego and emotion (often enough to make the press every week/every other week). This is because there isn't effective avenues for complaints to be fairly processed. Police complaints and investigations are dealt with by police themselves, which are pretty useless most of the time. Bad apples in the system can never be held accountable for their actions. When we can have the whole RCMP branch not accountable to the people of the province, and RCMP officers who caused unnecassary civilian death still on the loose, there is very very little chance that this minor transit incident will result in any meaningful investigations.
I totally agree that we need police officers, totally not for anarchy, and it is for this reason that we need the police officers themselves to be in check. Otherwise there just can't be any reasonable expectation that we can have the criminals too in check. We need a system that fairly punish the bad apples and reward the good ones in order to do police officers who acts in professional manners justice. |
發表於 2009-10-20 18:32
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