Dear Editor:
Last Friday I received a call from Malatest asking my opinion about the OPP. Is this legal? Such a survey doesn’t seem democratic.
Hypothetically if I was in Berlin in 1937 and got a similar call from the Gestapo, it would be a “fishing” call – to gather an enemy list.
We live in a time when unspeakable things have happened in policing, not only South of the borde, where seemingly the police have murdered citizens in front of our eyes, but also in Toronto and our own local backyard.
Aggressive brazen police action does not dovetail well with “to serve and protect.” We need confidence in our justice system, especially at the front end. Absolute power corrupts, and the SIU is seemingly incapable of accurate jurisdiction.
Besides, what would anyone’s opinion mean without an astute going over of facts, other than implicit faith or lack of faith in the idea or institution of policing?
Who pays for such a survey and who directs the information – and to whom?
David Courtney,
Belwood