Retired Police Feel The Shame of Others: QUOTABLE

“I know many of my fellow retirees, who did incredible work protecting the vulnerable, risking their lives to protect citizens and holding criminals accountable. Now, when asked about their previous career, respond with ‘I worked for the city’ or ‘I was in government. There are bad people in every profession. But it’s a pervasive sentiment. Police have brought that on themselves.’”

Greg Brown, a former Ottawa police detective and
sociology researcher at Carleton University

That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. The onus is on police to clean up their act.

One feels badly for the good police officers. People who try to do their best and often do exemplary work. They care about their jobs, the community, ethics, the victims, their families and the families of others. We’ve all met them. They’re good people. You’ve met them. I saw one of them the other day help an elderly woman across a dangerous intersection. Good on him.

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We should not forget that they are out there. The biggest job those officers face is bringing those values to their wayward colleagues. It’s not easy.

Change comes about as slowly as the continuing development of civilization. So society, for better or worse, tends not to alter very much.

So the variable in the relationship between society and the police is the police. They have changed and not for the better.

Get better.

Ken Gray

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