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When you see police start making regular patrol cars less obvious, you immediately know that deterrence has been removed from their vocabulary. Looking at you, Peel and Toronto.
Police 101. Now they have charged the victim. Drop your complaint or you're getting a record for not Respecting Ma Authority (even though we were plain clothes and you backed away as soon as we identified ourselves).
Toronto Police charge man who was seriously injured after being pushed by plainclothes officer
An incident that raised questions about police use of force has resulted in a charge against the man who was seriously injured by a plainclothes officer.toronto.citynews.ca
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That is really disappointing. All the due diligence in the world can't help if police then drop the ball. They were handed a win on a silver platter and might well have found more than just the jet skis.Person:My stolen jetskis are at an international shipping depot in Brampton
Police: don't worry, we got this
Person:Should I park there overnight to make sure they don't leave?
Police:We'll make sure, we got this
Person: why the f are my jetskis in New York
Police: whoops, I guess we don't got this.
Barrie business frustrated as stolen jet skis shipped to New York
'I found them in an international shipping warehouse (in Brampton) ... Peel Regional police showed up, and they were going to get a search warrant, but couldn’t get one in time,' says Flyboard Barrie manager
When fails are this big, you wonder if there is a connection between police and bad guys. It wouldnt take much foot shuffling to let the goods escape and it would be easy enough to blame a slow process. Yes, they needed a warrant to search but if police wanted to, they could have blocked the gate until that warrant was obtained. Since they didn't know a container number, popping a bunch of containers in vicinity of the ping to look for jet skis seems justified. If they happened to stumble upon another dozen containers of vehicles, go back for an expanded warrant.
Sadly that doesn't happen. He already had no license and a prohibition. Suspending the license he doesn't have is a waste of time imo. Suspended/prhibited drivers are almost invincible from substantial legal consequences. If you get caught while prohibited, it should be straight to jail. Many of these dirtbags have a half dozen lifetime driving prohibitions. If you are goin to ignore one, why bother with the paperwork to give you more to ignore? There is zero upside other than the back pats and bonuses for getting more convictions
If the prohibition is part of a recognizance order, then there will be an additional hearing on breach of recognizance. That could mean jail time.
Could doesnt mean much these days. If nobody is seriously hurt it is very unlikely they spend any useful amount of time locked up.
There's nothing in the HTA that will put you in jail. The HTA doesn't have the power, jail is for criminals, not bad drivers.
"Driving in contravention of a condition" implies that there was, in fact, a criminal charge at some point.
Also, it was specifically the possibility of jail time that changed HTA 172 so that a defence of necessity was possible, for the speeding portion.
If it was a media outlet then I would say that's the case, because media don't tend to use such terms properly. When it's a police force press release, I expect such terms to carry something closer to their meaning in legalese.
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