OPS Hears, Sees, Speaks No Evil: THE VOTER

Published 06/05/2023 · Updated 06/04/2023

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I think we’re seeing the result of a flawed police hiring process for chief.

It would have been extremely helpful to have had on the hiring board a cross-section of the community that would a) know the tough questions and b) ask them. Instead you had a group of insiders to the system who haven’t a clue what the real issues in policing in this community are going out and hiring someone whose world view and grip of reality is clearly as skewed as theirs. A case of the blind bringing in the blind to lead them into the light.

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I’d love to hear how Chief Eric Stubbs would put a spin on each of the points you’ve raised and somehow justify or explain away the egregious behaviour of the people he supposedly commands. “Protect” and “serve” are not difficult words but it seems they are not within the understanding of the chief and his force. A fish rots from the head, chief. You should maybe look around for the source and deal with it.

Aside from the pure idiocy of the police chief’s statement as it’s heard by civilians, it frightens me to think how it’s heard by his officers. It couldn’t be clearer to me, at least, that the message is, “Not to worry about this tempest in a teapot. The problem as I see it is that those young ‘uns are the ones at fault here and if we just turn up at their schools, clubs and playgrounds, we can bring them around to the proper way of thinking about us. They need to drop their mistaken impression that we’re somehow the ‘bad guys’.” How could anybody reasonably interpret this otherwise?

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Oh, and on the-cops-in-schools bit? I wonder if that statement came out of his mouth before or after a young boy in the back of a school bus gave the finger to the cops in the cruiser behind his bus? The reaction? They pulled the bus over and one of the officers went to the back of the bus and lit into the youngster. Among other things he told the boy that he could put him in the cruiser. They then followed the bus to the school and reported the kid to the principal.

I’m sure all the kids on the bus and in the schoolyard were appreciative of the force’s commitment to demonstrate to schoolkids that they have nothing to fear from the police. Nothing like showing by example how to do things.

Unfortunately for them, the mother who was at the stop to put her child onto the bus witnessed the whole thing. Even more unfortunate for the officers, she’s a lawyer.

The Voter is a respected community activist and long-time Bulldog commenter who prefers to keep her identity private.