Get A Grip, Chief. Your OPS Stinks: WHOPPER WATCH
“… while (Stubbs) respects the fears and anxieties some people have, he’d rather change the perceptions of young people by having uniformed officers there sooner than later so they don’t go their whole lives not trusting police.”
Police chief Eric Stubbs as translated by the CBC
Wow …
… wow
Wow …
Just how out-of-touch can a police chief be?
Stubbs has officers breaking the law with regularity, pounding down on a person of colour in front of many, many phone cameras, stripping a drunk black woman in the police lock-up because she got mouthy with an officer, stealing, a former chief (who was run out of the Ottawa Police Service) saying he wanted to stamp out racism and misogyny in the force, a force that worked at counter-purposes to what the public and its administration wanted during the Freedom Convoy protest, a professional standards branch that doesn’t have professional standards and a force that has worked hand-in-glove with sleezy politicians to make the Ottawa Police Services Board a much less democratic place.
We could go on. Oh almost forgot. The police praise the racist thin blue line flag.
Police Fail Accountability Standards: WHOPPER WATCH
If the kids are smart, they won’t trust the police.
And after all this, the police hold in contempt the people who pay their generous salaries. And the OPS expects respect in return. Forget it.
Get a grip chief. People are afraid to appear to appear at the OPSB because they fear retribution from the OPS.
And you know who created the PR problems for the OPS? Why the OPS. Who can fix the PR mess? Why the OPS.
Frankly, I don’t want those thugs anywhere near me. And this is coming from a long-time booster of the police.
And you want officers wearing uniforms in the schools to build relationships? Most people don’t want a relationship with the police. They want them to go away for fear their horrible attitudes might rub off on them.
The Ottawa Police Service is a testimony to solving your own problems because these guys don’t want to help and couldn’t help if they wanted.
People don’t like police in schools because they’re afraid of what might happen and who wants students learning from these guys?
So stop the crap, chief. Clean up your damn force.
Trust is a hard thing to get back and the OPS is a long way from getting trust.
Here’s an ideas. Shut-up and do your job right. Then maybe over time, people won’t mutter some expletive under their breath when a cop shows.
The second biggest job Stubbs has is cleaning up his force.
Time To Get The OPS Under Control
The most important job Stubbs has is him coming to terms with just how bad his force is. Stubbs is living in a dream world when the OPS was respected a long long time ago. It most certainly isn’t respected now.
You know why the Ottawa public doesn’t want the police in its schools? Because it doesn’t trust them and it doesn’t like them.
And the public is right not to trust them or like them.
The police have absolutely no place in our schools until they clean up their own act.
Being lectured by the OPS on what is right is the height, no the pinnacle, of hypocrisy.
Don’t call the police for help. They’ll only make the situation worse.
Ken Gray
—
Don’t miss our regular features
Everything Ottawa Full Local Bulldog Canadian
Opinion Comments Breaking News Hood Hub
Ontario World Get Cheap Gas Big Money
Pop Gossip Your Home Relax …
Bulldog Weather Full Local Sports
Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
– The Bulldog – News Feed Enter 
A few bad apples might spoil the lot, but a few bad officers don’t spoil the entire force!
I wonder why Bulldog feels this way.
I think officers in uniform should tell students about policing and shoul answer questons from students. Trust is built on communication.
Robert:
That’s what I thought a few years ago.
I was talking to a person in a position to know. I said it’s a shame that five per cent of the officers are causing the good officers so much grief.
The person responded that the number was more like 40 per cent. And it looks as if it has become worse.
That’s why, Robert.
cheers
kgray
As a veteran, and having had a career in the public service and Industry, the damage done by a few is allowed by those who remain silent to the misdeeds of co-workers.
The OPS staff have to take responsibility for allowing the bad actors to continue in the service. Until the good people in the force act to remove the few bad actors there will be no respect, nor should there be. The convoy last year blatantly showed the police were not acting in the public interest we pay for.
Andrew:
I share your view but it’s not just a few.
cheers
kgray