Few probes by civilian police-oversight agencies in Canada lead to charges against officers

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.An analysis of data from civilian police watchdogs in Canada shows that most of their investigations do not result in charges against officers.

Under the Criminal Code, a police officer is justified in using force in a lawful arrest as long as the officer acts on “reasonable and probable grounds and uses only as much force as reasonably necessary in the circumstances.” The use of former police officers as investigators is also seen by some as a built-in bias, while Laming said they should strive to include more Indigenous, Black and other investigators of colour.

Cacchione’s team recorded the highest rate of charges among the provincial units, with four charges laid in 44 cases opened in 2018-19. The charges represent nine per cent of all cases opened that year — although charges were laid in 22 per cent of the cases that resulted in investigations. “Whenever I would hear someone being shot six, seven, eight, nine times by a police officer, I would think, well what’s going on, this is excessive. Why didn’t they shoot the person in the knee or the arm?”He said he learned officers are trained that way because they’re likely to miss an arm or a leg. Cacchione recalled watching an instructor with a timer order an officer to shoot the centre body mass three times, then the head twice on the count of three.

Although Vancouver with a population of 630,000 is marginally larger than Surrey at 520,000, Palmer attributed the high number of incidents to Vancouver’s role as a hub city that is a destination for people from across the region, rather than training or officer conduct. Harsha Walia, executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, said oversight of the police wouldn’t need to be reviewed if there was a broader shift to reduce the scope and scale of the departments, including the removal of mental-health calls from their mandate.When officers are involved in a violent incident, they should be held to a higher standard than other citizens, said Walia.

RomeoOne1035 You are correct, the Corporal from Kelowna who was caught on camera, I would bet there was a public complaint and nothing materialized from that until the news got involved and a civil suit was launched.

RomeoOne1035 When the Police are able to downplay and reclassify serious and sensitive investigation from Complaints and say they don't meet the prerequisites this is one big reason that no charges are laid. I guess Perjury, Obstruction, Breach of Trust are considered serious? RCMP Corrupt

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