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Estilize Wicks couldn&#146t handle the day shift at a 7/11. <br>But Vancouver police gave her a gun and a licence to kill. <a href="vancouver_police_const_estilize_wicks_kills_michael_vann_hubbard.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Benjamin Montgomery Monty Robinson <br>just got a pay raise</h3> <h5>RCMP salary increases apply to all Mounties, even the <br>convicted criminals who spend years on paid vacation. <a href="rcmp_pay_raises_for_convicted_criminals.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Terror and trauma <br>in wake of revenue agency raid</h3> <h5>RCMP and Revenue Canada target a family with tactics <br>of Communist secret police and home-invasion gangsters. <br>They might have been politically motivated. <a href="rcmp_canada_revenue_agency_angus_takao_mcallister.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Secrecy, dishonesty and zero accountability: <br>Yet another OPCC cover-up</h3> <h5>New Westminster police constable Sukhwinder &#147Vinnie&#148 Singh Dosanjh <br>benefited from the corruption of Stan T. Lowe and Rollie Woods <br>at B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. <a href="opcc_coverup_new_westminster_police_sukhwinder_vinnie_dosanjh_firearms_assault_illegal_entry_paid_suspension.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Last post</h3> <h5>After having temporarily revived this project, <br>I&#146m once again wrapping it up. <a href="bc_police_accountability_campaign.html" target="_blank">Thanks for reading...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>B.C. is set to repeat Ontario&#146s mistakes, <br>but on a bigger scale</h3> <h5>An investigation into Ontario&#146s Special Investigations Unit <br>shows the danger of attorney-general interference and the <br>importance of an Ombudsperson&#146s oversight. <a href="bc_independent_investigations_office_ontario_special_investigations_unit.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><em>An appeal to B.C.&#146s media:</em></h5> <h3>Okay, you told us about <br>IIO chief Richard Rosenthal. <br>Now what about OPCC boss Stan Lowe?</h3> <h5>In just five days, B.C.&#146s media gave the new guy much more <br>scrutiny than ever devoted to Stan Lowe and his crew of ex-cops. <br>But they have a lot to answer for, starting with their cover-up <br>of a VPD assault on a disabled woman. <a href="bc_office_police_complaint_commissioner_media.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><em>Lowe integrity:</em> <br>Police complaint commissioner <br>Stan T. Lowe and his deputy, <br>Rollie Woods, are corrupt</h3> <h5>Their lies, cover-ups, breach of public trust <br>and support for gratuitous police violence <br>will bring them millions of dollars. <a href="opcc_corruption_police_coverup_stan_lowe_rollie_woods.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Welcome to Canada and the <br>Independent Investigations Office, <br>Richard Rosenthal</h3> <h5>This job calls for an outsider. <br>Here&#146s hoping you&#146re the right one. <a href="richard_rosenthal_independent_investigations_office.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Dziekanski &#145justice&#146 delayed &#151 again</h3> <h5>Each of the cops gets a separate trial. <br>By the time Kwesi &#147Killer&#148 Millington shows up in court <br>he&#146ll have benefited from six years of lies, delays, cover-ups, <br>delays, special treatment, delays, watered-down charges, <br>delays, delays and more delays. <a href="http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/634816--mounties-in-dziekanski-case-to-stand-trial-for-perjury-in-2012-2013" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>So much for our <em>official</em> activists, <br>the B.C. Civil Liberties Association</h3> <h5>The BCCLA co-operate with corrupt bigshots and support <br>the BC Liberal con job on police accountability. <a href="bccla_independent_investigations_office.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>A murder attempt notwithstanding, <br>inmate/ex-cop Peter Hodson <br>received special privileges</h3> <h5>But the death of another inmate, Jeremy Phillips, <br>shows what regular cons can face in the prison system. <a href="ex_vancouver_police_peter_hodson_prison_murder_attempt.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Ex-police complaint commissioner <br>Ryneveld gets another lucrative <br>government gig </h3> <h5>Ironically, challenging an alleged gangster. <br>But Dirty Dirk&#146s a liar who lacks the integrity <br>to practise law. <a href="dirk_ryneveld_corrupt_bc_police_complaint_commissioner.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Bus drivers face vicious beatings, <br>transit cops nowhere to be found</h3> <h5>The Greater Vancouver transit police force <br>is a retirement perk for do-nothing double-dippers. <a href="vancouver_skytrain_transit_police.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Chokehold Chong <br>&#151 a twice-convicted violent criminal <br>and upstanding Victoria police officer</h3> <h5>VicPD Sergeant George Chong committed his second assault <br>around the time his probation was ending for his first offence. <br>The judge said a civilian would have got prison time. <br><a href="victoria_police_george_chong_assaults_frank_blair.html" target="_blank">More (with video)...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Meet the new boss</h3> <h5>Commissioner Bob Paulson won&#146t fix the RCMP. <br>Even if he wanted to try, Ottawa wouldn&#146t let him. <br>And by now, it&#146s probably too late. <a href="rcmp_commissioner_robert_bob_paulson.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The OPCC to the rescue?</h3> <h5>Cop-cover-up king Stan Lowe and his corrupt crew of ex-cops <br>will review the cop-on-cop investigation into the cop shooting <br>of Alvin Wright. <a href="opcc_langley_rcmp_alvin_wright.html" target="_blank">But maybe this time...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>B.C.&#146s mainstream media <br>just can&#146t get it right</h3> <h5>Once again the BC government fools <br>our fourth estate about police accountability. <a href="bc_police_special_prosecutors.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>For the second time in four days, <br>dozens of B.C. papers misrepresent the OPCC. <a href="bc_media_ignorance_police_accountability.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>A green light to kill</h3> <h5>Jeff Hughes&#146 death is an indictment <br>of callous, cowardly Canadian police. <a href="jeff_hughes5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Jim Chu <br>Vancouver police liar-in-chief</h3> <h5>If this guy ever had any credibility, it&#146s shot now. <br>But no matter what happens, Chu has a secure job for life. <br>He&#146s a cop. More <a href="http://alexgtsakumis.com/2011/09/22/award-winning-journalist-bob-mackin-and-the-tyee-lead-the-way-in-revealing-vancouver-police-chiefs-riotous-lies/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/09/21/Liquor-Board-Boss-Feared-Van-Riot/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/stanley+cup+riot+new+documents+revealed/video.html?v=2139488348&p=1&s=dd#news+hour+final" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>In an especially desperate move, Chu and his <a href="vpd_misleads.html" target="_blank">platoon of PR flacks</a> <br>blame the Stanley Cup riot on the media. <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/Vancouver+police+come+swinging+riot+report/5444912/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>(For another example of Chu&#146s rampant dishonesty, read about <br>his response to the VPD killing of Michael Vann Hubbard <a href="vann_hubbard.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>&#145Attorney General Shirley Bond&#146</h3> <h5>Four words that question the independence of a key ministry. <a href="shirley_bond.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Defeating justice with power</h3> <h5>Do cop lobbyists account for the BC Liberal/NDP coalition <br>against police accountability? <a href="bc_police_lobby2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police &#145accountability&#146: <br>The cops are <em>still</em> in control</h3> <h5>In keeping with longstanding OPCC practice, <br>former B.C. police are heavily involved in creating <br>the Independent Investigations Office. <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/police+investigation+office+staffed+Mounties+undercuts+public+confidence+BCCLA/5348024/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Read the B.C. Civil Liberties Association press release <a href="iio_dick_bent_russ_nash.html" target="_blank">here...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p></h5> <h3>PRIMECorp&#146s defamation database</h3> <h5>B.C. police use false info to smear people. <br>The operation&#146s run by Russell Sanderson, <br>a proven liar and disgraced ex-cop. <a href="prime.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Fusion Security guards sued for handcuffing <br>and beating low-income people</h3> <h5>Despite credible evidence of ongoing violence, <br>Vancouver police refused to lay charges &#151 as usual. <a href="fusion_security.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Equality before the law? Not with the VPD</h3> <h5>Vancouver police treat people according to their <br>power and social status, a cop admits. <a href="vpd_riot.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Thomas Braidwood sells out on Independent Investigations Office IIO" id="braidwood2"></a><h3>Thomas Braidwood sells out</h3> <h5>His support notwithstanding, B.C.&#146s <br>new Independent Investigations Office <br>isn&#146t what he recommended. <a href="braidwood2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The B.C. Liberals&#146 handling of this issue shows they can now <br>pass off any odious policy with political aplomb. <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-394326/vancouver/greg-klein-braidwood-supports-new-policeoversight-agency-he-didnt-recommend" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Richard Peck sidesteps the central issue</h3> <h5>The Dziekanski death squad will be charged with perjury, not manslaughter. <br> Among other things, that lets Stan Lowe off the hook. <a href="richard_peck2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The BCCLA&#146s establishment ambitions <br>compromise its stance on police accountability</h3> <h5>Cops make relatively easy targets but no one in B.C. <br>criticizes the OPCC &#151 at least no one with any aspirations <br>as a politician, Crown attorney or mainstream journalist. <a href="bccla.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The BCCLA co-operate with corrupt bigshots and support <br>the BC Liberal con job on police accountability. <a href="bccla_independent_investigations_office.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Rehabilitating Rollie Woods (II)</h3> <h5>A media puff piece praises the latest corrupt ex-cop <br>to be named B.C.&#146s deputy police complaint commissioner. <a href="rollie_woods2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>A few final (and marginal) notes</h3> <h5>Political involvement is for designated victims, special interest groups <br>and powerful individuals. The rest of us get marginalized. <a href="bc_police_campaign.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The Buddy Tavares assault: <br>Protests speak louder than words</h3> <h5>It was just another routine kick in the face <br>but someone caught it on video. Now a planned <br>demonstration has Kelowna Mounties worried. <a href="buddy_tavares.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (VI)</h3> <h5>You won&#146t read this in B.C.&#146s mainstream media. <br>And that&#146s part of the reason we&#146ll never have <br>effective police oversight. <a href="bc_ontario6.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Mike Farnworth&#146s hypocrisy on police accountability</h3> <h5>The would-be NDP leader attended a fundraiser for Zofia Cisowski <br>after implicitly supporting the Mounties involved in the death of her son, <br>Robert Dziekanski. More <a href="stan_lowe3.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="ndp.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The glacial pace of calling cops to account</h3> <h5>Over 18 months after a judge called him a liar, <br>now-retired RCMP Staff Sgt. Ross Spenard <br>finally faces perjury charges. <a href="ross_spenard3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>More about this misleading Mountie&#146s misdeeds <br><a href="ross_spenard2.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="ross_spenard.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>The case dragged on long enough for Spenard to retire. <br>When he finally got convicted, a judge let him off easy. <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/Retired+RCMP+blood+splatter+expert+gets+conditional+sentence+perjury/5156114/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Facts and fallacies about police accountability" id="facts"></a><h3>Refuting the fallacies</h3> <h5>Here&#146s some clarification to counter <br>misinformation about police accountability. <a href="bc_police_facts.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>What part did the RCMP play <br>in the BC Rail outrage?</h3> <h5>The government sells a public railway to a company <br>led by an associate of the premier, the Crown prosecutes <br>two small-time hacks and the government suddenly pays <br>$6 million to stop their trial, which resulted from an investigation <br>by a cop with BC Liberal connections &#151 who follows up with <br>unreasonable demands to a defence lawyer. Details of an <br>especially big scandal are bursting out of the blogosphere. <a href="http://alexgtsakumis.com/2010/12/27/breaking-news-on-january-11th-2011-crown-to-demand-return-of-all-disclosure-documents-given-to-basi-and-virk-defence-teams/" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Const. David Clarke Jeffrey Harrison" id="clarke"></a><h3>Drugs, guns and the latest RCMP scandal</h3> <h5>Yet another really stinking Mountie mess proves a few points: <br>Cops can&#146t be trusted to investigate cops. <br>Lawsuits, onerous as they are, can bring results. <br>The media have a strong role to play in police accountability. <a href="rcmp_scandal.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (V):</h3> <h5>Ontario&#146s SIU faces public criticism and a <br>second investigation by the provincial Ombudsman. <br>B.C.&#146s OPCC continues to escape scrutiny. <a href="bc_ontario5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>VPD Const. Taylor Robinson charged with assault <br>but the OPCC gang have questions to answer</h3> <h5>Where was B.C.&#146s police &#145watchdog&#146 for six weeks <br>after the Vancouver police assault on a disabled woman? <a href="vpd_brutality.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. media neglect police accountability" id="media2"></a><h3>Not fit to print?</h3> <h5>B.C.&#146s media neglect some important problems <br>concerning police accountability. <a href="bc_police_media.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Stan Lowe and his crew of ex-cops: <br>A major obstacle to police accountability</h3> <h5>Download a leaflet <a href="Assets/B.C._OPCC_info.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. police delay investigations into cops" id="delays"></a><h3>Time heals all things <br>&#151 or so the police hope</h3> <h5>Those inexcusably long cop-on-cop investigations <br>have to be a deliberate ploy to compromise justice. <a href="bc_police_bias3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Delta police support VPD brutality" id="wu_verdict"></a><h3>The Yao Wei Wu verdict: <br>Anyone surprised?</h3> <h5>An innocent man answers a 2 a.m. knock at the door <br>only to get a shit-kicking from two Vancouver cops. <br>A police investigation clears them. As a result, cops now <br>have more power than ever to beat people up. <a href="vpd_assault9.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. prosecutors support police misconduct" id="crown3"></a><a name="B.C. Crown attorneys cozy with police" id="crown2"></a><h3>The problem goes beyond biased investigations</h3> <h5>William Davies&#146 report on Frank Paul&#146s death finds <br>B.C.&#146s Criminal Justice Branch, Crown attorneys cosy with the cops. <br>The government wants to keep it that way. <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Opinion+Frank+Paul+inquiry+report+answer+Victoria+wanted/4990642/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Thanks to favourable treatment from prosecutors and courts, <br>cops walk free when civilians wouldn&#146t. <a href="police_accountability.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>B.C. Crown attorneys won&#146t blow the whistle <br>on blatantly incompetent cop-on-cop investigations. <br>They say it&#146s not their job. <a href="bc_crown_bias.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>A Crown attorney presents &#145watered-down&#146 evidence <br>against violent Vancouver cop Darcy Taylor. More <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/Outrage+greets+officer+conviction+assault+charge/3908418/story.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="darcy_taylor.html#damage_control" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police-involved deaths: <br>The failure of self-investigation</h3> <h5>Ontario has three times the population of B.C. <br>But B.C. has twice as many in-custody deaths and an <br>oversight agency that&#146s closely tied to the police it oversees. <br><a href="http://www.straight.com/article-354662/vancouver/british-columbia-leads-country-police-deaths-report" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Nanaimo RCMP shoot Jeff Hughes" id="hughes2"></a><h3>Another cop investigation <br>into another cop shooting <br>drags on to another year</h3> <h5>Just what are police doing with the Jeff Hughes case <br>&#151 other than proving, for the umpteenth time, that <br>police have no business investigating police? <a href="jeff_hughes2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>It&#146s an airtight cover-up, but it still stinks. <br>Police say their trigger-happy colleague is innocent &#151 period. <br>They flatly refuse to release even the most basic facts <br>about Jeff Hughes&#146 death. <a href="http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=03a2a675-f1c7-49ad-8782-4fce175fd411" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Who&#146s watching the police?</h3> <h5>Ex-cops and cop culture prevail at the OPCC. <br>Will B.C.&#146s new police oversight agency be any different? <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-353776/vancouver/whos-watching-cops" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Coquitlam RCMP rough up family" id="poco"></a><h3>Fearless Coquitlam Mounties <br>show their para-military mettle <br>at a family&#146s Thanksgiving dinner</h3> <h5>Screaming tough guys brandish weapons and order a family <br>face-down on the wet ground. As a woman tries to comfort <br>her 60-year-old mother, a cop sticks a gun at her head <br>and tells her to shut up. <a href="coquitlam_rcmp.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Lack of confidence in police <br>undermines confidence in the law</h3> <h5>B.C.&#146s new DUI rules give cops extra powers <br>that can&#146t be scrutinized in court &#151 and at a time <br>when police hiring standards have plummeted. <a href="http://www.abbotsfordtimes.com/news/Have+police+earned+powers/3677126/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="OPCC budget increase for biased ex-cops" id="opcc4"></a><h3>The OPCC has a big problem <br>but it&#146s not money</h3> <h5>No budget increase will fix B.C.&#146s system of police accountability <br>as long as Stan Lowe and his crew of ex-cops run the show. <a href="opcc_budget.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver police chief Jim Chu Independent Investigation Office" id="chu2"></a><h3>What&#146s behind Chief Jim Chu&#146s proposal?</h3> <h5>An expanded IIO could improve police accountability <br>or do the opposite, depending on what happens with the OPCC. <a href="iio.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Private security guards in B.C.: <br>Your rights and their responsibilities</h3> <h5>Some of the info&#146s available after all, <br>no thanks to the B.C. government. <a href="bc_security_guards.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Disgraced RCMP officers draw full salary" id="rcmp2"></a><h3>The Mounties always get their money</h3> <h5>Suspended RCMP officers get full salary and pay raises too <br>for three or more years while going through their <br>impossibly slow but highly remunerative review process. <br>More <a href="rcmp_suspension.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="rcmp_salary.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>Then, in the unlikely event that a Mountie is ever found guilty, <br>nothing much happens. More <a href="rcmp_discipline.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="rcmp_offences.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>So if getting caught is little deterrent, why shouldn&#146t a Mountie&#146s <br>under-age girlfriends post his misdeeds on Facebook? <a href="rcmp_offences2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Sue for your civil rights</h3> <h5>Standing up to arrogant, abusive cops isn&#146t easy. <br>But Cameron Ward&#146s eight-year battle against Vancouver police <br>was a matter of principle &#151 and necessity. <a href="http://commonground.ca/iss/229/cg229_ward.shtml" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>More about suing the cops <a href="sue_the_police.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="OPCC cover up Vancouver police brutality against disabled woman" id="coverup2"></a><h3>This cover-up has been another <br>VPD/OPCC co-production</h3> <h5>Looks like the OPCC helped Vancouver cops cover up <br>an especially troubling assault. Yet the B.C. government wants <br>the OPCC to run the new Independent Investigation Office. <a href="vpd_assault6.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver police assault disabled woman" id="vpd_brutality"></a><h3>When you see them comin&#146, <br>better step aside</h3> <h5>A disabled woman didn&#146t, and a rough, tough Vancouver cop <br>shoved her to the ground. The VPD cover-up lasted <br>six weeks, until the BCCLA released the video. <br>The OPCC won&#146t answer media inquiries. <br>Read about it <a href="vpd_assault5.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVeLXWbA4Wc" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Yao Wei Wu Delta Vancouver police brutality" id="wu_delay"></a><h3>Justice compromised, with OPCC approval</h3> <h5>Cops drag out the seven-month-long Yao Wei Wu <br>police brutality investigation for another two months, <br>putting a lawsuit on hold. Stan Lowe and his crew approve. <a href="http://www.vancourier.com/Vancouver+police+beating+case+delayed+until+fall/3310168/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>More about the dubious investigation into the <br>Vancouver police beating of Yao Wei Wu <a href="bc_police_brutality.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx/Story.aspx?ID=1190103" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>Sept. 20, 2010 update: <br>And another delay, with OPCC approval. <a href="http://www.vancourier.com/Investigation+into+police+beating+Vancouver+delayed+again/3552320/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Oct. 5, 2010 update: The OPCC grants yet another delay. <br>&#147This case starkly illustrates why police <br>should not be investigating other police officers&#148 <br>&#151 and also why their investigations shouldn&#146t be <br>reviewed by ex-police officers. <a href="yao_wei_wu2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Nov. 3, 2010 update: <br>The cops are cleared by other cops. Anyone surprised? <a href="vpd_assault9.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Ross Poulton Tom Collins Rollie Woods" id="opcc_cops"></a><h3>Welcome to the OPCC, Poulton and Collins. <br>You should feel right at home</h3> <h5>The newest additions to Stan Lowe&#146s crew of ex-cops <br>help maintain the OPCC&#146s police culture. <a href="opcc23.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Richard Peck Stan Lowe Robert Dziekanski" id="peck"></a><h3>Is special prosecutor Richard Peck <br>whitewashing ex-prosecutor Stan Lowe?</h3> <h5>Lowe&#146s Dziekanski decision could get in the way <br>of his appointment to the IIO. Unless, maybe, <br>somebody comes up with some revisionist history. <a href="stan_lowe14.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>May 4, 2011 update: Richard Peck has dragged out his Dziekanski review <br>for nearly a year. Meanwhile he supported the Criminal Justice Branch decision <br>to defend police misconduct in Frank Paul&#146s death. <a href="richard_peck3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>May 6, 2011 update: Peck sidesteps the central issue, <br>charging the Dziekanski death squad with perjury, not manslaughter. <br>Among other things, that lets Stan Lowe off the hook. <a href="richard_peck2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Thomas Braidwood Independent Investigation Office" id="braidwood"></a><h3>Will the B.C. government defeat Braidwood&#146s purpose?</h3> <h5>Against his recommendations, they might put <br>B.C.&#146s new police oversight agency under the jurisdiction <br>of Stan Lowe, Canada&#146s most outspoken supporter <br>of the Dziekanski death squad. <a href="braidwood.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The province&#146s hesitation on a key Braidwood recommendation <br>&#151 that the new Independent Investigation Office answer <br>to the ombudsperson &#151 is &#147curious and worrying.&#148 <a href="iio5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Well, the government defeated Braidwood&#146s purpose alright <br>&#151 with more than a little help from Braidwood himself. <a href="braidwood2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The RCMP&#146s laughable new oversight agency: <br>Ottawa couldn&#146t get more cynical</h3> <h5>Details are scarce but one big, big flaw has already emerged. <br>The agency can only make recommendations <br>which the Mounties and feds are free to ignore. <a href="rcmp_oversight.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (IV)</h3> <h5>Ontario&#146s NDP criticizes the AG for <br>&#145buckling under a very powerful police lobby.&#146 <br>Meanwhile B.C.&#146s NDP, Liberals and cops <br>stand united against police accountability. <a href="bc_ontario4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Ontario police note vetting" id="note"></a><h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (III)</h3> <h5>A conflict between Ontario police and the SIU <br>contrasts with the very chummy relationship <br>between B.C. cops and the OPCC. <a href="bc_ontario3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Kash out again</h3> <h5>Our recently re-appointed top cop <br>heeds the call to re-resign. <a href="kash_heed6.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Blunders, screw-ups and scandal: <br>Kash Heed graces politics with police experience. <a href="kash_heed5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="police accountability in B.C. and Ontario" id="ontario"></a> <h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (II)</h3> <h5>Without an ombudsperson&#146s strong oversight <br>B.C.&#146s police &#145watchdog&#146 will remain B.C.&#146s police lapdog. <br><a href="bc_ontario2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police accountability: <br>Comparing B.C. with Ontario (I)</h3> <h5>Their system is a flawed work in progress <br>but it surpasses ours in three crucial areas. <a href="bc_ontario.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Victoria police chief Jamie Graham" id="graham"></a><h3>Another Jamie Graham screw-up, <br>another formal complaint</h3> <h5>Victoria&#146s blundering police chief <br>is a one-man make-work project for <br>B.C.&#146s useless police complaint system. <a href="jamie_graham.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Fired Vancouver police const. Peter Hodson" id="hodson"></a><h3>Peter Hodson and Vancouver police: <br>Just one bad apple?</h3> <h5>Decisive action against a &#145rogue&#146 officer <br>proves the VPD&#146s commitment <br>to accountability. Or does it? <a href="peter_hodson.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h3>A murder attempt notwithstanding, <br>inmate/ex-cop Peter Hodson <br>received special privileges</h3> <h5>But the death of another inmate, Jeremy Phillips, <br>shows what regular cons can face in the prison system. <a href="ex_vancouver_police_peter_hodson_prison_murder_attempt.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Linda Bush RCMP reform" id="bush"></a><h3>Linda Bush addresses the issues sincerely. <br>But the RCMP?</h3> <h5>Mounties will gladly accept legislative changes <br>as long as Stan Lowe and his crew of ex-cops <br>continue to run the show. <a href="rcmp_reform.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Solicitor General Kash Heed disgraced" id="heed3"></a><h3>A typical solicitor general</h3> <h5>Kash Heed claims he didn&#146t know <br>what was going on &#151 standard procedure <br>for the minister in charge of cops and security guards. <br>More <a href="kash_heed9.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="kash_heed10.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>Even more about our most recent ex-top cop <a href="kash_heed5.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Tom Stamatakis" id="lobby4"></a><h3>Police use unreliable stats <br>from an unreliable source</h3> <h5>The OPCC cooks its books for cops, <br>who may have created the OPCC in the first place. <br><a href="lobby.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Quesnel RCMP assault harmless man" id="quesnel"></a><h3>Quesnel cops show their mettle</h3> <h5>While one Mountie had him in her gunsights, <br>another bravely tackled him from behind. <br>And for good reason &#151 the suspect was 49 years old, <br>90 pounds in weight, mentally handicapped and <br>armed with a big orange-and-silver plastic toy space gun <br>complete with flashing lights and Star Trek sound effects. <br><a href="rcmp_brutality.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Linda Bush presses for RCMP reform" id="lb"></a><h3>The Dziekanski payout... What now?</h3> <h5>The Mounties sound conciliatory <br>but they&#146re determined to keep their people <br>in control of the police complaint process. <a href="rcmp2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>B.C. moves further <br>from police accountability</h3> <h5>New legislation will give the chief coroner <br>more power to do less about in-custody deaths. <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-299507/vancouver/amendment-proposed-incustody-deaths" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Victoria police brutality Tyler Archer" id="victoria"></a><h3>Gratuitous violence in front of a crowd: <br>Imagine what the cops would have done <br>if no one was watching</h3> <h5>Jacked-up, out-of-control cops will be investigated by <br>former colleagues of their police chief. The investigation will be <br>monitored by B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. <br>How reassuring. <a href="victoria_police_brutality3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnwi6wO03As" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>Kicking people &#145is what we&#146re trained to do,&#146 <br>says Victoria&#146s police chief. That&#146s what cops did <br>to one victim who says he was seeking police help. <br>He also says they left him handcuffed face-down <br>on the ground for 40 minutes. <a href="victoria_police_brutality2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Commissioner William Elliott" id="elliott"></a><h3>An RCMP PR coup</h3> <h5>Canada&#146s top Mountie gets lots of media for a misleading message <br>that avoids some embarrassing questions &#151 <br>like why he&#146s keeping a rapist on the payroll. <a href="rcmp_pr.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Rollie Woods gets rehabilitated" id="rehab"></a> <h3>Rehabilitating Rollie Woods (I)</h3> <h5>B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner might be <br>building a positive media image for this biased ex-cop <br>while it hires five more ex-cops just like him. <a href="rollie_woods.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="OPCC B.C. police complaint commissioner Stan T. Lowe" id="lowe17"></a><h3>Stan Lowe is part of the problem <br>with our police complaints process</h3> <h5>The system doesn&#146t work, it&#146s long needed reform <br>and B.C.&#146s police complaint commissioner is a <br>prime example of what&#146s wrong with it. <a href="stan_lowe17.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. police complaint system unintended consequences" id="consequences"></a><h3>Some unintended consequences <br>of cops investigating cops</h3> <h5>Police have no one to blame but themselves <br>when their self-serving system backfires. <a href="bc_police_brutality.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP changes self-investigation procedures" id="rcmp"></a><h3>Much ado about the RCMP</h3> <h5>Media buzz notwithstanding, <br>proposals to make the Mounties more accountable <br>amount to almost nothing. Meanwhile B.C.&#146s biased <br>complaint system for municipal cops escapes media scrutiny. <br><a href="opcc_rcmp.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="West Vancouver police officer Griffin Gillan" id="gillan2"></a><h3>The police bond is stronger than shame</h3> <h5>West Vancouver constable Griffin Gillan <br>disgraced all police by acting out <br>a vicious cop fantasy on an innocent man. <br>But police see no reason why he should lose his job. <br><a href="griffin_gillan2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5><a href="media.html#gillan" target="_blank">More</a> on Griffin Gillan&#146s vicious cop fantasy <br>and the other police involved.</h5> <h5>Griffin Gillan has a job for life <br>&#151 luckily for him, because the vicious punk <br>probably couldn&#146t work anywhere else. <a href="griffin_gillan3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="private security guards in B.C." id="security"></a><h3>The shadowy world of private police</h3> <h5>Few people know what B.C. security guards <br>legally can and can&#146t do. Their employers, regular police <br>and the solicitor general often don&#146t care. <a href="private_security.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Info about laws and regulations governing security guards <br>is available, no thanks to the B.C. government. <a href="bc_security_guards.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C.ýÿs powerful police lobby" id="lobby"></a><h3>Unaccountable cops out of control</h3> <h5>Provincial politicians take orders <br>from a powerful police lobby. <a href="bc_police_lobby.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5><em><a href="andre_marin2.html" target="_blank">More</a> on how the police lobby <br>opposes accountability in other provinces.</em></h5> <h5>The RCMP thumbs its nose <br>at Solicitor General Kash Heed. <a href="kash_heed7.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5><em><a href="kash_heed5.html" target="_blank">More</a> about our sad sack Sol-Gen.</em></h5> <h5>Vancouver police response to Vancouver police brutality <br>shows police shouldn&#146t investigate police. <a href="vpd_assault8.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5><em>After beating the shit out of Yao Wei Wu, <br>Vancouver police try to dissuade him <br>from suing them. <a href="http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx/Story.aspx?ID=1190103" target="_blank">More...</a></em></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. Police Complaint Commissioner Stan T. Lowe" id="lowe9"></a><h3>Lesson 1: <br>Don&#146t go near a stapler</h3> <h5>OPCC boss and Dziekanski death squad supporter <br>Stan Lowe will advise immigrants <br>on dealing with police. <a href="stan_lowe9.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner" id="opcc2"></a><h3>B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner <br>wants five new recruits for its crew of ex-cops</h3> <h5>This time, will the OPCC hire people with ability and integrity? <br>Or will it hire more people like Rollie Woods and Bruce M. Brown? <br><a href="opcc_release.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Andre Marin in Vancouver" id="marin"></a><h3>Andre Marin was here <br>but the media weren&#146t</h3> <h5>Possibly Canada&#146s strongest advocate of police accountability, <br>Ontario&#146s ombudsman addressed a Vancouver forum. <br>His talk rated less than a minute of news time <br>on just one radio station. <a href="andre_marin.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Last April, referring to Manitoba&#146s proposed <br>Independent Investigations Unit, Marin stated the case <br>for civilian investigations of police. <a href="andre_marin2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>More on civilian investigations <a href="media.html#civilians" target="_blank">here</a>. </h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Yaowei Yao Wei Wu Vancouver police" id="wu"></a><h3>&#145The VPD regrets any <em>inconvenience</em> <br>or trauma this <em>may have</em> caused.&#146</h3> <h5>After two of their boot boys <br>beat the shit out of an innocent man, <br>Vancouver police play down the injuries <br>and issue a weasel-word apology. <a href="vpd_assault2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. police complaint internal investigation" id="corrupt"></a><h3>There&#146s a human cost to our <br>biased system of police complaints</h3> <h5>People like Ian Upton, Rollie Woods and Bruce M. Brown <br>might think they&#146re just sticking up for their buddies. <br>But their dishonesty takes a toll on the welfare <br>of people they&#146re paid to serve. <a href="opcc_bias2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Office Police Complaint Commissioner 2009 report" id="2009"></a><h3>All&#146s well here, claims B.C.&#146s <br>Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner</h3> <h5>We&#146re doing a great job &#151 trust us, <br>their 2009 report implies. <a href="opcc_2009.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="VPD Const. Lindsey Houghton police bias" id="bias2"></a><h3>Vancouver cops betray their police bias <br>even when investigating another police force</h3> <h5>A really dumb remark from Const. Lindsey Houghton <br>reinforces the need for civilian investigation of police. <a href="bc_police_bias.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Getting beaten up, Tasered or shot? <br>Ask the cops to do it on video</h3> <h5>When police are the ones being investigated, <br>the standards for evidence are incomparably higher. <br>But even that isn&#146t always enough. <a href="http://davideby.blogspot.com/2010/01/police-criminal-charges-caught-on-video.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver Police charge Sgt. Darcy Taylor" id="taylor"></a><h3>No changes after all <br>at Vancouver Police Professional Standards</h3> <h5>Despite any illusion created by the <br><a href="darcy_taylor.html#damage_control" target="_blank">Darcy Taylor damage-control exercise</a>, <br>VPD internal investigations continue <br>the Ian Upton/Rollie Woods approach: <br>The police are 100-per-cent right <br>and the complainant 100-per-cent wrong. <br><a href="http://www.straight.com/article-279715/vancouver/student-questions-policecomplaint-process" target="_blank"> More...</a></h5> <h5>Feb. 18, 2010 update: <br>Vancouver Police Professional Standards officers <br>Glenn Newman and Mario Giardini did their job. <br>They found their fellow cops totally right <br>and the complainant totally wrong. <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-290420/vancouver/students-complaint-tossed-out-vpd" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver Police charge Sgt. Darcy Taylor" id="taylor"></a><h3>Now <em>this</em> is surprising</h3> <h5>Vancouver Police Professional Standards <br>has actually recommended a criminal charge <br>against a VPD officer. <a href="darcy_taylor.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Michael Van Hubbard Vancouver Police Jim Chu" id="vann_hubbard"></a><h3>The Vann Hubbard shooting: <br>Vancouver Police respond by attacking their critics</h3> <h5>VPD Chief Jim Chu and <br>police union boss Tom Stamatakis <br>divert attention from a dubious investigation <br>by lashing out at those who criticize cops. <a href="vann_hubbard.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. police complaint commissioner Stan T. Lowe" id="lowe7"></a><h3>Stan Lowe states his guiding principle: <br>Bigshots should be accountable to no one</h3> <h5>&#147People will not be able to freely exercise their discretion <br>because they&#146re concerned about one day <br>being brought to an inquiry.&#148 <a href="stan_lowe7.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Police extend their powers <br>to spy on dissidents</h3> <h5>Legal demonstrators were infiltrated by a police spy, <br>said Victoria&#146s bungling braggart of a police chief. <br>But no one&#146s revealing which police force was involved, <br>why they did this and who authorized it. <a href="http://www.lillooetnews.net/article/20091209/LILLOOET0304/312099931/-1/lillooet0304/police-spying-needs-explanation-oversight" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Paul Kennedy Commission for Public Complaints Agaist the RCMP Dziekanski" id="cpc"></a><h3>News flash: <br>RCMP complaint commissioner <br>concedes what everybody else knows</h3> <h5>Meanwhile Taser trigger-man Kwesi Millington <br>and killer Corporal Benjamin Monty Robinson <br>remain on the Mountie payroll. <a href="cpc_report.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Kash Heed Bob Fontaine Doug Bruce" id="heed2"></a><h3>Why can&#146t cops get their act together?</h3> <h5>Two ex-cops who allegedly evaded police complaints <br>about their investigation into a police complaint <br>about a drunken cop sue an ex-cop <br>who allegedly evaded two police complaints <br>and then became solicitor general. <a href="kash_heed2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5><a href="kash_heed5.html" target="_blank">More</a> about our solicitor general.</h5> <h5>A Victoria police chief <br>who was once a Vancouver police chief <br>who evaded discipline for a police complaint <br>now faces another police complaint, <br>this time for endangering a police officer. <a href="jamie_graham2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>From Sam Steele to this: Somewhere along the way <br>Canada&#146s legendary Mounties became the poster boys of dysfunction. <br>But B.C.&#146s committed to renewing their contract. <a href="william_elliott.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Rollie Woods, Bruce M. Brown, OPCC" id="opcc_review"></a><h3>We need an independent review <br>of the decisions and hiring practices <br>of B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner</h3> <h5>No one can screw up the way <br>Rollie Woods and Bruce M. Brown <br>screwed up unless it&#146s deliberate <br>and they know they can get away with it. <a href="opcc_review.html" target="_blank"> <br>More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>What constitutes gross misconduct for the RCMP?</h3> <h5>Not gratuitous violence nor even manslaughter <br>at the hands of Mounties like Benjamin Montgomery Robinson, <br>John Graham, Donovan Tait and Kenrick Whitney. <a href="rcmp_gross_misconduct.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Corporal Benjamin Monty Montgomery Robinson" id="robinson"></a><h3>One cunning, callous cop</h3> <h5>RCMP Corporal Benjamin Montgomery Robinson <br>evaded serious charges by going home for more booze <br>while leaving his most recent victim to die. <br>B.C.&#146s Criminal Justice Branch is playing along <br>with Robinson&#146s scheme. More <a href="monty_robinson6.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="monty_robinson2.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Benjamin Monty Robinson RCMP" id="robinson2"></a><h3>Is RCMP Corporal Benjamin Monty Robinson <br>getting a sweet deal?</h3> <h5>The leader of the Dziekanski death squad <br>will only face a charge of attempting to obstruct justice <br>after a traffic accident that left 21-year-old Orion Hutchinson dead. <br>But evidence strongly suggests Robinson killed Hutchinson <br>while driving drunk. <a href="monty_robinson3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>And why did B.C.&#146s cop-friendly Criminal Justice Branch <br>take so long to do so little? <a href="monty_robinson5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>&#147The manner in which the criminal justice system <br>handles fatality cases involving police officers <br>is driven by fear, favouritism or who knows what &#151 <br>anything but the principle that we are all equal <br>in the eyes of the law.&#148 <a href="bc_police_bias4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Two and a half years after Orion Hutchinson&#146s death <br>Robinson finally faces a watered-down charge. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/04/20/bc-monty-robinson-obstruction.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>And three and a half years after Robert Dziekanski&#146s death, <br>another watered-down charge. <a href="richard_peck2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Watered-down charges and delay after delay, thanks to <br>B.C.&#146s &#147justice&#148 system. The Dziekanski death squad won&#146t face <br>their first trial date until four years after they killed an unarmed man. <a href="http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1581199" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Paul Kennedy RCMP complaint commissioner" id="kennedy"></a><h3>Good riddance to Paul Kennedy</h3> <h5>Supposedly the RCMP watchdog, <br>Kennedy cleared the cops by creating scenarios <br>that didn&#146t match the evidence. <a href="paul_kennedy.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Clayton Alvin Willey RCMP John Graham" id="taser2"></a><h3>Taser death cop John Graham <br>has a history of allegations and one conviction <br>for gratuitous violence</h3> <h5>Canada&#146s legendary Mounties sink even lower <br>in their cesspool of lies, cover-ups, violence and killing. <a href="rcmp_john_graham.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Kash Heed supports corrupt police" id="heed4"></a><h3>Kash Heed rejects a personal appeal <br>from Linda Bush</h3> <h5>Although he keeps blathering about his &#147thirty years of integrity&#148 <br>the solicitor general remains committed to a <br>thoroughly biased police complaint process. <a href="kash_heed4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>But, as a BC Liberal, Heed has no say in the matter anyway. <a href="gordocracy.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>As for the NDP, they&#146re with Gord on this one. <a href="ndp.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Nanaimo RCMP kill Jeff Hughes" id="hughes"></a><h3>Did Nanaimo cops kill <br>a harmless, unarmed man?</h3> <h5>Contradictory, sensational and even demonizing <br>descriptions of Jeff Hughes might conceal the real story. <a href="http://www.vancouverite.com/2009/10/27/two-different-stories-emerge-on-how-jeff-hughes-died/comment-page-1/" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>May 27, 2010 update: Seven months later, police still can&#146t <br>&#151 or won&#146t &#151 explain why they pumped bullets into a <br>frail and apparently unarmed man. <a href="jeff_hughes.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Oct. 24, 2010 update: As their investigation drags on <br>to a second year, police still have nothing to say. <a href="jeff_hughes2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>May 21, 2011 update: <br>The cops find their fellow cop innocent, of course. <br>But they flatly refuse to say why. <a href="http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=03a2a675-f1c7-49ad-8782-4fce175fd411" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Jeff Hughes&#146 death is an indictment <br>of callous, cowardly Canadian police. <a href="jeff_hughes5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Nathan Cullen RCMP" id="cullen"></a><h3>Nathan Cullen&#146s inadequate proposal</h3> <h5>His private member&#146s bill could <br>inhibit real accountability for the RCMP. <a href="nathan_cullen.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Mountie Benjamin Monty Montgomery Robinson" id="robinson4"></a><h3>B.C. prosecutors give special treatment <br>to law-breaking cops</h3> <h5>RCMP Corporal Benjamin Monty Robinson, leader of the Dziekanski death squad, <br>remains on paid leave over a year after allegedly killing another man <br>while driving drunk. No charges have been laid. <a href="monty_robinson4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>December 2009 <a href="media.html#robinson" target="_blank">update</a>: Robinson evaded more serious charges <br>and will be tried only for attempting to obstruct justice. </h5> <h5>Watered-down charges and delay after delay, thanks to <br>B.C.&#146s &#147justice&#148 system. The Dziekanski death squad won&#146t face <br>their first trial date until four years after they killed an unarmed man. <a href="http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1581199" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Chilliwack RCMP Taser Robert Thurston Knipstrom" id="taser"></a><h3>Tasered, pepper-sprayed, beaten with truncheons, <br>handcuffed face-down &#151 another in-custody death</h3> <h5>These aren&#146t isolated incidents. <br>Far too many arrests go horribly wrong. <a href="robert_knipstrom.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Clay Alvin Willey" id="willey"></a><h3>Hog-tied, dropped, dragged and repeatedly Tasered <br>&#151 yet another in-custody death</h3> <h5>Disturbing details of a 2003 incident have now come to light. <br>Two of the same cops were later accused of torturing <br>another man with up to 50 Taser blasts. More <a href="clayton_alvin_willey.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="rcmp_john_graham.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Paul Boyd shooting" id="boyd"></a><h3>Death by cop: <br>The Criminal Justice Branch <br>backs another VPD self-investigation</h3> <h5>Eight Vancouver police officers were present. <br>Paul Boyd hit two of them with a chain. <br>An officer then shot Boyd eight times, killing him. <br>The officer fired at least four of those shots after Boyd <br>was disarmed and the officer was ordered <br>to hold his fire. No charges will be laid. <br>More <a href="paul_boyd.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="paul_boyd2.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <h5>July 9, 2010 update: <br>The Vancouver police self-investigation dragged on <br>for a year, Crown attorneys stalled for another year <br>before clearing the cops, then a third year passed. <br>Now B.C.&#146s new coroner has called an inquest. <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-333075/vancouver/coroner-hold-inquest-paul-boyds-death" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>March 19, 2012 update: <br>True to form, B.C. police complaint commissioner Stan T. Lowe <br>absolves Const. Lee Chipperfield for shooting Boyd eight times. <a href="http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120319/bc_no_excessive_force_in_vancouver_police_shooting_120319/20120319?hub=BritishColumbiaHome" target="_blank">More...</a> <br>The only news is the B.C. Civil Liberties Association&#146s criticism. <br>David Eby and the BCCLA normally co-operate with Lowe and his corrupt ex-cops. <br>They also congratulate the BC Liberals for their con job on police accountability. <br><a href="bccla_independent_investigations_office.html" target="_blank">More on the BCCLA...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Kwesi Millington libel chill" id="libel_chill"></a><h3>From lethal force to libel chill</h3> <h5>Kwesi Millington, trigger man for the Dziekanski death squad, <br>is suing the CBC for libel. In a Kafkaesque ploy that could <br>cast a pall over all media, Millington hasn&#146t even specified <br>what the CBC said that allegedly defamed him. <a href="kwesi_millington.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="CTV W5 RCMP deaths" id="w5"></a><h3>When the RCMP pulls the trigger</h3> <h5>CTV&#146s W5 reports jarring inconsistencies between RCMP self-investigations <br>and the facts that come out in coroner&#146s inquests, video evidence <br>and the Braidwood Inquiry. Nevertheless the Criminal Justice Branch <br>and the Commissioner of Public Complaints consistently side with the cops.</h5> <h5>Some highlights: Stan Lowe telling lies about Robert Dziekanski <br>one week before Lowe was appointed police complaint commissioner. <br>And a really smug Paul Kennedy creating his own scenarios <br>on behalf of the RCMP while dismissing criticism as &#147tweet tweet.&#148 <br><a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091030/w5_beyondjustice_091031/20091031?hub=Canada " target="_blank">Watch W5 online...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>A 2010 dystopia</h3> <h5>February looks bleak with 7,000 cops, <br>5,000 security guards and 4,500 soldiers patrolling the streets <br>while different levels of government shrug off concerns about civil rights. <br>How much of this will be the Olympics&#146 lasting legacy? <br><a href="http://www.straight.com/article-203981/david-eby-looking-forward-civil-liberties-threats-during-2010-olympics" target="_blank">More from a March 2, 2009 article...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The rising cost of rubber stamps</h3> <h5><a href="lowe.html" target="_blank">Stan Lowe and his crew of ex-cops</a> at B.C.&#146s <br>Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/BC-Politics/2009/10/26/PoliceBudget/" target="_blank">want more money</a>. <br>But our tax dollars would be better spent on an independent review <br>of the <a href="http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/opcc_bias.html" target="_blank">OPCC&#146s decisions</a>, as well as its <a href="http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/crony.html" target="_blank">hiring practices</a>.</h5> <h5>What would Lowe and his crew do with a budget boost, anyway? <a href="opcc_release.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Oct. 11, 2010 update: <br>The OPCC has a big problem but it&#146s not money. <a href="opcc_budget.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Mike Farnworth Leonard Krog" id="ndp"></a><h3>Bill 7: Where&#146s B.C.&#146s opposition party?</h3> <h5>The NDP opposition joins the BC Liberal government <br>in supporting a biased police complaint system. <a href="ndp.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Against all evidence, <br>Stan Lowe sided with the cops. <br>But would an independent prosecutor do the same?</h3> <h5>Lawyer and former judge William Sundhu <br>continues the campaign to lay criminal charges <br>against the Dziekanski death squad. <a href="http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/14432/3/b.c.+lawyer++presses+for+special+prosecutor+in+dziekanski+case" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>July 1, 2010 update: Is special prosecutor Richard Peck <br>whitewashing ex-prosecutor Stan Lowe? <a href="stan_lowe14.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Abbotsford police takedown" id="abbotsford"></a><h3>Cops act tough with the easy cases</h3> <h5>There&#146s nothing like a couple of lightweights <br>lying with their faces in the dirt to bring out <br>the gratuitous violence of a cop fantasy. <br>Watch the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WheWb7G5NPs" target="_blank">video</a>; read a <a href="abbotsford.html" target="_blank">news report</a>.</h5> <h5>But how do cops behave when confronted by someone scary? <br>I&#146ve seen Vancouver police deal very respectfully <br>with a big, tough attempted rapist. And RCMP <br>did nothing for five hours during the gruesome <br>aftermath of the Greyhound bus beheading. <br><a href="http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=631e9712-7eb2-4d6f-a99d-47b9d712dc9f&sponsor=" target="_blank">Warning: graphic content...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Rollie Woods" id="woods"></a><h3>Did Rollie Woods <br>work on the Reuben Coleman file?</h3> <h5>The Vancouver police investigation into a Vancouver police shooting <br>was approved by the ex-cops at B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. <br>At least one of them might have been a crony <br>of the cops involved. <a href="crony.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP legal bill" id="tax"></a><h3>Defending the indefensible</h3> <h5>Taxpayers have shelled out over half a million dollars &#151 so far &#151 <br>for lawyers to represent the RCMP and each member of the Dziekanski death squad. <br>But we should also ask how much the Mounties spent <br>trying to dig up dirt in Poland. <a href="rcmp_legal_bill.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Smearing Dziekanski: <br>Mountie inquisitors nearly got kicked out of Poland</h3> <h5>An RCMP expeditionary force conducted such heavy-handed interrogations <br>that they nearly got expelled by Polish authorities. <a href="http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/14281/7/polish+government+could+cramp+holiday+plans+for+some+rcmp+members?" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="lowe6" id="low6"></a><h3>Keeping a Lowe profile</h3> <h5>Stan Lowe finally made his public debut <br>as police complaint commissioner. <br>But he needn&#146t have put if off <br>if this is the kind of media coverage he gets. <br><a href="stan_lowe6.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver police Sergeant Stephen Eely Constable Paul Gies" id="gies_eely"></a><h3>Lawsuits work, police complaints don&#146t</h3> <h5>Assault, battery and false imprisonment <br>bring $13,000 in damages against Vancouver police. <a href="vpd_assault7.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Greg Smith" id="smith"></a><h3>Cop gets three-day suspension <br>for assault causing permanent injuries</h3> <h5>Even on those very rare occasions when <br>B.C.&#146s police complaint commissioner <br>does suggest a penalty, it&#146s insignificant. <br>Meanwhile, the victim&#146s lawsuit brought changes <br>in police procedure as well as a financial settlement. <a href="victoria_assault.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Police harass Olympic critics" id="harass"></a><h3>Laughably heavy-handed &#151 but scary too</h3> <h5>Olympics police kept a clandestine watch <br>before confronting a student between classes. Why? <br>She knows someone who opposes the Olympics. <a href="harassment.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Police must have spent considerable time monitoring this student <br>prior to their good-cop/bad-cop interrogation. <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/05/OlympicsShawQuestioning/" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Read other reports of harassment and amateur skullduggery <br>from Vancouver&#146s politicized Olympics police <a href="media.html#olympics" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP, B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police" id="ploy"></a><h3>Police launch a pre-emptive strike <br>against civilian investigation</h3> <h5>The proposals from B.C. police chiefs and RCMP <br>look like an effort to retain cop control <br>over complaints against cops. <a href="bc_police_bias2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Andre Marin" id="dark_ages"></a><h3>When it comes to investigating <br>police-involved incidents, <br>B.C. is &#145in the Dark Ages&#146</h3> <h5>Linda Bush, the BCCLA and the Ontario ombudsman <br>are among those calling for civilian investigation of cop complaints. <br>But the RCMP and B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police <br>just want to fiddle with a failed system. <a href="dark_ages.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><a name="lowe2" id="lowe2"></a>An open letter to <br>police complaint commissioner Stan Lowe</h3> <h5>It was nice meeting you, but your Dziekanski decision <br>and your staff of ex-cops hardly inspire confidence. <a href="stan_lowe4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="civilian investigations would make police accountable" id="civilians"></a><h3>Why should civilians <br>investigate complaints against police?</h3> <h5>Unlike lawyers, doctors and teachers, <br>paramilitary groups foster a culture that discourages <br>impartial investigation within the ranks. <br><a href="http://www.straight.com/article-111628/lawyers-demand-new-process" target="_blank">More from a Sept. 27, 2007 article...</a></h5> <h5>Cops who investigate cops honestly <br>can face the wrath of other cops. <a href="http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=763cced3-ac37-4d7d-87a4-7a2fcf60640e" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Many cops actively oppose impartial investigations. <a href="joe_slemko.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Civilians who aren&#146t ex-cops can become <br>excellent investigators without conflicting loyalties. <a href="andre_marin2.html#civilians2" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>VPD inspector Ian Upton&#146s disreputable career <br>illustrates the inherent corruption of <br>cops investigating cops. <a href="ian_upton.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>A civil suit succeeded <br>after a police complaint failed</h3> <h5>A court found West Vancouver liable <br>for false detention, arrest and imprisonment <br>after cops conducted a campaign of harassment. <a href="west_vancouver_police.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Burns Lake RCMP misconduct" id="burns_lake"></a><h3>Echoes of Dziekanski</h3> <h5>A sequence of sordid actions by Burns Lake RCMP <br>shows that police brutality, police lies and police cover-ups <br>are not isolated incidents. <a href="andrew_fidler.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Referring to another violent Burns Lake RCMP incident, <br>Inspector Eric Brewer claims that cops investigating cops <br>constitutes an independent investigation. <a href="eric_brewer.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Cops with criminal records</h3> <h5>The next cop to confront you <br>could be a convicted criminal. <a href="http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/13502/1/rcmp+officers+can+have+a+criminal+record+and+still+serve" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Const. Deri Kinsey Satnam Dhaliwal" id="rcmp_racist"></a><h3>Despite vulgar, sexist, racist, violent sentiments, <br>they&#146re upstanding police officers</h3> <h5>In 2004, after exchanging hundreds of offensive e-mails, <br>RCMP cops Deri Kinsey and Satnam Dhaliwal were ordered to resign. <br>They refused. Five years later the RCMP has decided <br>they can stay after all, largely because they <br>have the support of their superior officers. <br><a href="rcmp_racist.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Paul Boyd Vancouver police fatal shooting" id="boyd2"></a><h3>An investigation into Vancouver cops <br>drags on and on and on</h3> <h5>More than two years after Vancouver police <br>killed a mentally ill man with multiple gunshots, <br>a coroner&#146s inquest has yet to be called, despite the legal requirement. <br>Instead, we get feeble excuses from B.C.&#146s Criminal Justice Branch, <br>the same department that supported the Dziekanski death squad. <a href="vpd_shooting.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Some updates from Nov. 9 and 10, 2009, and July 9, 2010 <a href="media.html#boyd" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="dui" id="dui"></a><h3>Another cop DUI</h3> <h5>But at least it&#146s his first offence, <br>say Vancouver police. A criminal charge <br>may or may not be forthcoming. <a href="vpd_drunk.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Meanwhile Corporal Benjamin Monty Robinson, <br>leader of the Dziekanski death squad, <br>continues his paid leave nearly a year after <br>allegedly killing a man while driving drunk.<br>He hasn&#146t been charged either, <br>although charges were recommended last June. <a href="monty_robinson.html" target="_blank"> <br>More from a June 10, 2009 report...</a></h5> <h5>Just who are these guys? <br><a href="yvr4.html" target="_blank">More on the Dziekanski death squad...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Mission RCMP Mike White, Samantha Audley, 911 operator/dispatcher Katrina Gardiner leave Lisa Cheryl Dudley to die" id="mike_white"></a><h3>Woman left dying for four days <br>after cops and 911 dispatcher screw up</h3> <h5>Bleeding from bullet wounds and unable to move, <br>a woman spent four horrific days dying <br>beside her already dead husband. <br>The cop in charge was promoted afterwards. <br>The RCMP tried to keep the story secret. <a href="rcmp_mike_white.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Laughing Mountie Mike White&#146s &#147disgraceful conduct&#148 <br>gets him a one-day suspension and a promotion soon after. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/10/12/bc-rcmp-recording-slayings-allegation.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>With zero accountability, even for a disgraced cop <br>like RCMP Const. Mike White, the victim&#146s family launches a lawsuit. <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/Family+murdered+Mission+woman+RCMP/5624999/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver Police assault concierge Lucian Naita" id="vpd_condo_assault"></a><h3>Surveillance video catches <br>VPD tough guys in action</h3> <h5>A condo concierge says police assaulted him <br>to gain illegal entry to a suite.</h5> <h5><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08/25/bc-concierge-police-allegation.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the CBC report. <br>A link to the video appears to the right of the CBC page. <br>Vancouver police make their entrance <br>around one and a half minutes into the video. <br>The assault takes place about a minute later.</h5> <h5><a href="vpd_assault.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> for the Vancouver Province report.</h5> <h5>Vancouver police comedian Lindsey Houghton <br>claims the VPD take police complaints seriously. <a href="lindsey_houghton.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Do Vancouver police protect their image <br>by beating up women?</h3> <h5>Two women say cops beat them, jailed them and deleted their video <br>because they filmed the cops beating up a man. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08/21/bc-wilczewski-buxton-police-assault.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><a name="rcmp" id="rcmp"></a>The system is broken <br>&#151 let&#146s keep it that way</h3> <h5>An RCMP report acknowledges problems in police self-investigation, <br>but recommends only slight changes to the status quo. <a href="cpc_report2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP flee from other RCMP" id="chase"></a><h3>When does causing a high-speed chase <br>not constitute a criminal offence?</h3> <h5>When the people speeding away from the pursuing police car <br>are three off-duty cops. <a href="cops_flee_cops.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><a name="heed" id="heed"></a><h1><img src="Assets/Kash Heed.jpg"></h1></h3> <h5>The sad saga of B.C.&#146s ex-solicitor general includes <br>police complaints, lawsuits, screw-ups and scandal <br>&#151 as well as his opposition to police accountability. <a href="kash_heed5.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="RCMP Constable Ken Whitney" id="whitney"></a><h3>Kenrick &#145Ken&#146 Whitney: <br>From offensive tackle to offensive cop</h3> <h5>The RCMP stick by the former CFL player <br>despite his record for assaulting people <br>over trivial incidents. <a href="ken_whitney.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="West Vancouver police Griffin Gillan" id="gillan"></a><h3>Drunken cop attacks innocent man, <br>then calls for backup</h3> <h5>&#147Help, please help... call the police,&#148 the victim pleads. <br>&#147We are the police,&#148 answers one of his assailants. <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/West+police+officer+pleads+guilty+assaulting+newspaper+delivery/1801491/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The prosecutor raised some questions applicable to cop culture: <br>&#147Why did [Griffin] Gillan, drunk and off duty, and obviously in a bullying mood, <br>feel empowered to arrest Khan? Why did the other two [cops] <br>so willingly join in?&#148 <a href="griffin_gillan.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>But cops want Griffin Gillan to keep his job. <a href="griffin_gillan2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>West Vancouver Police grant Griffin Gillan a job for life <br>&#151 luckily for him, because the vicious punk <br>probably couldn&#146t work anywhere else. <a href="griffin_gillan3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C.ýÿs dishonest police" id="police_lies"></a><h3>Police evidence: <br>lies, lies and more lies</h3> <h5>Accused gangsters go free because <br>cops lied to get wiretaps and then lied repeatedly in court. <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Members+alleged+drug+trafficking+ring+walk+after+police+lied+court/1794706/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Cops lie so often that &#147any police officer&#146s testimony <br>must now be treated with suspicion.&#148 <a href="police_lies.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>RCMP Staff Sgt. Ross Spenard faces investigation for perjury <br>as a judge says the cop &#147clearly lied under oath.&#148 <a href="ross_spenard2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Spenard&#146s supposed competence and honesty collapse <br>while the work of RCMP Sgt. James Gallant <br>also comes under scrutiny. <a href="ross_spenard.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Jan. 11, 2011 update: Over 18 months later, <br>Spenard finally faces perjury charges. <a href="ross_spenard3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The case dragged on long enough for Spenard to retire. <br>When he finally got convicted, a judge let him off easy. <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/news/Retired+RCMP+blood+splatter+expert+gets+conditional+sentence+perjury/5156114/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>An ex-cop&#146s trial is put on hold <br>while his lawyer challenges the honesty of a witness, <br>RCMP Supt. Wayne Rideout, due to his work <br>on the Dziekanski investigation. <a href="wayne_rideout.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>A culture of dishonesty &#147raises doubts about the veracity <br>of RCMP testimony in thousands of court cases <br>heard across this country every year.&#148 <a href="rcmp_lies.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Jim Chu: Vancouver police liar-in-chief. <br>More <a href="http://alexgtsakumis.com/2011/09/22/award-winning-journalist-bob-mackin-and-the-tyee-lead-the-way-in-revealing-vancouver-police-chiefs-riotous-lies/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/09/21/Liquor-Board-Boss-Feared-Van-Riot/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/stanley+cup+riot+new+documents+revealed/video.html?v=2139488348&p=1&s=dd#news+hour+final" target="_blank">here</a>.</h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Peace River RCMP" id="peace"></a><h3>No peace from Peace region police</h3> <h5>Clueless cops repeatedly use <br>harassment, intimidation and defamation <br>against innocent people. <a href="encana3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>June 17, 2010 update: <br>How did Mounties divert attention from their <br>harassment, intimidation and defamation of innocent people? <br>They sent 100 cops to swarm all over a family farm. <a href="encana4.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Questions arise about <br>police complaint commissioner</h3> <h5>How can Stan Lowe hold public confidence <br>as police complaint commissioner and <br>why did five MLAs appoint him in the first place? <br><a href="stan_lowe15.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>7,000 cops, 5,000 security guards and 4,500 soldiers <br>will swoop down on Vancouver and Whistler</h3> <h5>Police harassment and civil liberties violations <br>are just the beginning of what looks like <br>an ugly chapter in B.C. history. <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/Olympics+security+head+warns+possible+violent+clashes+Games/1772144/story.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="olympics" id="olympics"></a><h3>Canadians shouldn&#146t accept <br>repressive Olympic security</h3> <h5>&#147The Games don&#146t even start for another seven months, <br>yet the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms <br>has been all but thrown aside&#148 by Vancouver police and the RCMP. <br><a href="olympics_police.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Anti-Olympics activists to police: <br>Stop harassing us or we&#146ll sue. <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-236472/antiolympics-activists-police-stop-harassing-us-or-well-sue" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>Just expressing his opinion in a letter <br>brought Vancouver cops down on a 73-year-old man. <a href="peter_scott.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Cops want to muzzle Braidwood</h3> <h5>Unlike Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe, <br>Tom Braidwood seems to disapprove of <br>gratuitous violence, lethal force and lies. <br>So the Dziekanski death squad wants him silenced. <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+moves+inquiry+nothing+short+tawdry/1679509/story.html" target="_blank"> <br>More...</a></h5> <h5>Update: In a pathetic postscript to his very remunerative career, <br>Thomas Braidwood caved in to the police status quo. <a href="braidwood2.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="MLA Mike Farnworth" id="farnworth"></a><h3>MLA Mike Farnworth did <em>what</em>?</h3> <h5>Farnworth attended the fundraiser for Robert Dziekanski&#146s mother. <br>Farnworth also helped appoint Stan Lowe police complaint commissioner. <br>Lowe took part in the decision to smear Dziekanski <br>and shield four cops from criminal responsibility for his death. <br>As a result, Dziekanski&#146s mother is campaigning to have Poland press charges. <br>So she held a fundraiser &#151 which Farnworth attended. <br><a href="stan_lowe3.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="cook" id="cook"></a><h3> Don&#146t complain... sue!</h3> <h5>According to a Vancouver Police internal investigation, <br>six cops did nothing wrong when they gave an innocent man <br>a broken nose, cuts and a ruptured spleen. <br>But a judge disagreed, awarding the victim $94,000. <a href="vpd_lawsuit.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="lowe5" id="lowe5"></a> <h3>Lowe should go</h3> <h5>After his disgraceful participation in the Dziekanski smear job/RCMP cover-up, <br>Stan Lowe can&#146t hold public confidence as police complaint commissioner. <br>And the five MLAs who appointed him should <br>answer some tough questions. <a href="stan_lowe5.html " target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. Police Complaint Commissioner" id="opcc"></a><h3>B.C.&#146s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner <br>answers to no one</h3> <h5>The OPCC is staffed by ex-cops <br>who serve their former colleagues, not the public. <a href="opcc_bias.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver Police Sgt. Brad Fawcett" id="perception"></a><h3>&#145Perception&#146 justifies lethal force,<br> according to VPD &#145expert&#146</h3> <h5>The inquiry into Robert Dziekanski&#146s death <br>provides disturbing insight into police culture. <a href="perception.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver police PR flacks" id="pr"></a><h3>Vancouver Police has 17 PR flacks <br>working full time to polish its image</h3> <h5>That doesn&#146t even include the cops&#146 cover-up squad, <br>Vancouver Police Professional Standards. <br>All that for a police force with a history <br>of misleading the public. <a href="vpd_misleads.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <h5>The VPD&#146s public affairs section uses its huge staff <br>and huge budget to control, or even conceal information. <a href="vpd_public_affairs.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Greg Klein letter" id="np"></a><h3>Our rights can&#146t be sacrificed</h3> <h5>We can&#146t let private security take on illegal powers. <a href="np.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Vancouver police cover-up" id="coverup"></a><h3>Vancouver Police Professional Standards <br>covers up for police misconduct</h3> <h5> And B.C.&#146s Office of the<br /> Police Complaint Commissioner helps them. <a href="province.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="EnCana Corporation" id="encana"></a><h3>Private security guards <br>are assuming illegal powers</h3> <h5>Meanwhile police and other authorities <br>look the other way, or even assist them. <a href="encana.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe" id="lowe"></a><h3>&#145A Lowe point&#146</h3> <h5>After an investigation of one of Canada&#146s most notorious cases of police brutality, <br>Stan Lowe smeared the victim and excused the cops. <br>Now he&#146s B.C.&#146s Police Complaint Commissioner, following the tradition <br>of Don Morrison, Dirk Ryneveld and Bruce M. Brown. <a href="stan_lowe2.html" target="_blank">More...</a> </h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <a name="B.C. Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe" id="lowe1"></a><h3>&#145It&#8217;s easier to blame Robert Dziekanski&#146</h3> <h5> Stan Lowe released a cover-up <br>worthy of Vancouver Police Professional Standards<br/> and the B.C. Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner <br>&#151 just one week before Lowe himself was appointed <br>Police Complaint Commissioner. <a href="stan_lowe1.html" target="_blank">More...</a> </h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Stan Lowe&#146s &#145embarrassing damage control exercise&#146</h3> <h5>After a shamefully obvious smear job and cover-up, <br>B.C.&#146s Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe <br>will continue the work of Don Morrison, <br>Dirk Ryneveld and Bruce M. Brown. <a href="stan_lowe18.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Private police</h3> <h5>The security industry is thriving,<br /> but what does that mean for the rest of us? <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-114431/private-police" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>The OPCC&#8217;s bias didn&#8217;t start with<br /> Dirk Ryneveld and Bruce M. Brown</h3> <h5> &#147Former police complaint commissioner Don Morrison would never<br /> order an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by the<br /> Vancouver police unless he was forced to by the media...&#8221; <a href="don_morrison_police_complaint_commissioner.html" target="_blank">More...</a></h5> <p>&nbsp; </p> <h5><a href="#top">Go to top of page</a></h5> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></div> <!-- end #container --></div> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-4053584-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body> <!-- InstanceEnd --></html>