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11/24/2002 Archived Entry: "Police errors"

This police error made me think of something...is there a large scale project to watch police blunders, brutality, corruption, predjudice, etc?

I am currently feeling that the police generally do not serve community needs in a large number of cases. Certainly, when I hear about them, they are either not showing up enough (like in my neighbourhood, where we have the dubious distinction of being the car theft capital of north america), or showing up to do pointless things (I have a friend on Cortes Island, which has very little people and very many cops. They are doing traffic control in a place that hasn't had a traffic fatality in 20-odd years). Here in Surrey, with all our car thefts there are not bait cars, but 10km away in Vancouver they are starting to use them quite aggressively (Surrey has a history of being ignored for political reasons).

Simply put, I do not trust the police because they don't do common sense things and when I hear them cracking down on crime it's always in the least intelligent and logical manner.