HALIFAX - Police across Canada must do more to deal with allegations of racially-biased policing, police chiefs meeting in Halifax were told Monday.
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While the chiefs say they will not tolerate racial prejudice on the job, one speaker told them they have to deal with the issue – whether it's real or perceived. [This is worth quoting again.]
***While the chiefs say they will not tolerate racial prejudice on the job, one speaker told them they have to deal with the issue – whether it's real or perceived.***
In Halifax, police are facing allegations of racial discrimination from heavyweight boxer Kirk Johnson. He says police pulled over his car on several occasions because he is black. On one occassion the car was confiscated.
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Johnson calls his supposed offense "driving while black." Halifax police Chief Frank Beazley says in his 33 years in uniform, he's never known an officer who bases a decision on race.
"It's not something that police do," said Beazley.
Consultant Robert Lunney, a former police chief in Ontario's Peel Region, says police have to deal with perception.
With CBC emphasizing every allegation and perception of police racism, is the problem of racism expanding in Canada -- or is that a cynical question on the part of this writer who sees CBC creating problems with its news coverage?
Was it not CBC where we first heard so much about first nations and gay marriage? Now, compliments of JC and claque, we have a country the size of Belgium--or is it Switzerland? including diamond mines--given to one group out of our first nations peoples who still are on the Canadian taxpayer tit, have not learned to practice either democracy or financial accountability in their own communities, have drug and alcohol problems and need houses with doors that cannot be kicked down and floors that cannot be easily destroyed. (Reference: a CBC documentary August 24) This sets a precedent for other land claims settlements to be decided in the office of whoever is our PM by him and a small coterie -- whatever the rest of us think of it.
And, of course, now that it has been endlessly mentioned on CBC and various pro-Liberal media outlets as only fair, JC and trained seals are bringing us gay marriage. CBC and its ilk are so useful. Look for bantustans based on ethnic background or gang connections to come next -- with their own police who won't be racist. After all, whitey police cannot be trusted to be fair with our non-white brethren, can they?
