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From what I remember the Taser wasn't available until very shortly after Yatim was fatally shot. I remarked at the time that I thought it interesting that the officer with the Taser tasered a corpse and was wondering if they were trying to set up a narrative about what happened, despite there being multiple cameras recording the scene.
www.thestar.com
Yatim still had a switchblade “firmly in his grasp” and “refused or declined” officers’ demands to drop it.The cop that tasered him testified right before Forcillo..
Toronto cop tells inquest why he Tasered Sammy Yatim after he was already fatally shot
The tasering of Sammy Yatim as he lay mortally wounded sparked outrage in its own right. At an ongoing inquest into his killing, Sgt. Dusan Pravica explained he knew Yatim
"Stop resisting" is a core tenet of police training. By not showing active compliance, he was resisting. The fact that he was dead does not factor into Forcillos ant brain.
Toronto Police is putting out ads warning people that response time is slow. Correction, scaring people about response times. A photo shows a guy with a gun apparently hijacking someone.
The solution is simple. Average cop salary should be at least 50% below where it is now. For the same money, that gives you at least 50% more boots on the ground and 50% faster response time. Nobody wants to go that way as the union will lose its crap and existing mouth breathers will start a mutiny.
What other job gets you over 100K in less than five years with a high school education and no ambition? Drop salary for the average beat cop to 70K and your applicant pool remains identical. Hell, drop existing cops to 70k and see what happens. Most don't have any better option. Golden handcuffs. That means we are paying too much.
In my job there are consciences if someone messes up, That usually don't involve a paid vacation for months or yrs on end.
The humanity occupations (medical personnel, police, teachers) are a double edged sword. If you don't pay enough, good responsible people don't apply because responsible people have to be responsible to their families as well, providing them with decent living conditions and education.
Don't forget the little orange cones...
What other jobs get you punched, kicked, spat upon, and possibly shot? I don't envy their jobs and I don't begrudge their pay scale. If you want people who want to supplement their pay by doing illegal acts then the easiest way is to pay them dirt, for a dirty job. That we have some officers who are still willing to do that given their pay means, to me, that they need to be held to a higher standard because of their positions and stomped on with jack-booted feet, when they get out of line. Until then they need to be treated with due respect.
While that doesn't change public expenditure by much (although I am pretty sure impact is still significant with paid duty cops for municipal and transit projects), that is a layer of red tape, inflationary pressure and excess that could be cut in a day. There should be no reason for a paid duty cop at a crazy daily rate for a construction project. A grunt with a vest and some traffic training can do the job at least as well for a fraction of the money. That makes every project cheaper to complete.
That wonderful old adage, "When seconds count the police are only minutes away."
At this rate, we are getting close to hours or days for the average event. Their critical incident response time is 22 minutes. You'll be lucky if you get an incident number for a property crime.
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