Path: utzoo!utgpu!lsuc!hcr!paulg
From: paulg@hcr.UUCP (Paul Gooderham)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Toronto Police
Message-ID: <4674@hcr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jan-89 09:19:33 EST
Article-I.D.: hcr.4674
References: <157@aimed.UUCP>
Reply-To: paulg@hcrvax.UUCP (Paul Gooderham)
Distribution: tor
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <157@aimed.UUCP> nick@aimed.UUCP writes:
>I'd be interested to see some discussion on what folks out there think
>of the current problems the metro police, and police forces in general,

I can't believe the public whining that has been going on.  People
seem to be siding with the criminals against the police.  

 - a knife weilding man rushes a policeman who then shoots the man.  

 - the youthful driver of a known stolen car tries to run down two 
   policemen and ends up shot

In both these cases currently popular in the press, the criminal 
is trying to kill the policeman and the policeman strikes back.
People seem to expect policemen to risk injury or even death
for the sake of a criminal.  But if the men had just followed 
police instructions, they would be alive to whine for themselves 
today.

I wouldn't argue against investigations intended to uncover the
truth, but I wouldn't condem the policemen until the truth that
they did something wrong was known.  Condemnation any earlier is
baseless conjecture but the press seems to gobble it up.  Anything
to sell more papers or to get better ratings, I suppose.
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Paul J. Gooderham  (std. disclaimer)