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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Subject: Re: American Judicial Headache
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Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 00:53:52 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 00:53:52 1983
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	Perhaps a reasonable approach to overzealous police is to have police
commissions (or whatever) that do something serious when personal rights are
infringed in the process of conducting an investigation..something like firing
all with foreknowledge, instead of 2 weeks suspension with pay during the
investigation and 2 week suspension without pay as punishment.
	I personally think the Canadian system seems reasonable, because few
people have their rights seriously abused, BUT this seems to depend almost
solely on the good intentions of the police (usually good, but there are some
glaring examples of peoples rights being totally trampled with very little
being done about it).  The law has recently changed due to the Charter of
Rights and there was concern that it would make our system too much like
the American one, but there seems to be little indication of much change so
far (14 months).
 -- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit --   Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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