Toronto Police are Out of Control

February 7, 2011

How long are we going to tolerate blatant Masonic symbols at public buildings? This statue of a police woman working on an unfinished pyramid is in front the Toronto Police Headquarters on College Street. Could the fact that the force pays homage to a satanic secret society, (and many policemen are Freemasons,) contribute to corruption and contempt for the public?

by Lawrence McCurry
(Edited by Henrymakow.com)

The issue of Metro Toronto police wearing a tag that displays their name and/or badge number on the outside of their uniform has come to the forefront of discussion again. Last week a you tube by local activist, film maker and radio host Daniel Libby featuring this writer at a rally to support the Egyptian uprising has gone viral on the internet. The film features the infamous officer A. Josephs (A.K.A Officer Bubbles). The reason I choose officer Josephs to approach about being one of the half dozen officers there who were not wearing a tag was because he was the only one I knew by sight and could identify by name.

The fact that he refused to recognize me when I politely said, "Excuse me Officer" or was openly rude and threatened to arrest me is all the more reason police officers need to be easily identified by citizens. Also being winter time, these tag-less officers were also wearing cold weather head gear and sun glasses that partially covered their faces. Other than officer Josephs who has become infamous for his open rudeness and disdain for the general public, none of the tag-less officers could be identified.

The Ontario Labor Relations Board recently turned down a Toronto police union bid to end the mandatory wearing of name tags by uniformed officers. The police union claims that the name tags, which display an officer's first initial and last name, increases the risk of their being harmed.

This however does not explain the excuse for not wearing a badge number either. I can't help but feel the growing attitudes of the rank and file of the police towards the public is a much greater risk than the name tags ever would be. When the police engage the public in this city, weather a traffic stop, on the street, a protest or rally or even a criminal investigation they are seldom friendly or polite.

After the G-20 in Toronto last June, Chief Bill Blair of the Toronto Police Service told a Commons public safety committee that 90 officers will face disciplinary action for failing to wear their ID badge. During committee questioning, Blair said he believed some of the 90 officers were trying to hide their identities. One of the main reasons there weren't more charges laid was due to the fact that the police officers could not be identified. The fact that more than six months later, the rank and file are still thumbing their nose at the law clearly show that the police are out of control and that Bill Blair as chief cannot control his officers.

[At the rear of Toronto Police HQ, a boy hauling an out-sized obelisk on a wagon.]

The Toronto Police Services Board, a civilian agency that oversees the police force, made name tags mandatory in 2006. The police have appealed this decision and lost and yet still there were many officers spotted at the rally who refuse to comply? After the G-20 Chief Blair's response to this was to dock the officers a day's pay which amounts to a fine of about $300.00 and it now looks like this punishment clearly had no effect at all.

Many people in this city have some serious concerns that we are quickly slipping into a fascist police state here in Canada. The fact that Officer Josephs refused to identify himself that day to me or that About 1,100 people were arrested during the G20 weekend in Toronto, but only 308 were charged. With many of those charges later being dropped, proves that these concerns are well founded.

Our charter of rights and freedoms were and are being blatantly violated and ignored by the Toronto Police Services and this is the main reason why people like me will never give up on calling for a public inquiry into the G-20. Unless the police in Canada's largest city are brought under control and soon, you may as well hang that charter of rights and freedoms in your bathroom and use it to wipe your butt.

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