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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

My point is it appears that some posters seem to gain some sort of perverse sense of satisfaction from negative stories about the police, I guess to be fair this also occurs in the media as well.

Do you actually think it's a due to a perverse sense of satisfaction, or is it more likely that it's a perceived sense of wide-scale injustice?

When a thread was started to speak about positive experiences, it only took till post #14 for someone to take a negative slant.

I actually think this is pretty sad.

I think that's just an internet thing. People like to slag anything they can.

I have dealt with police in other nations, first world, second world and third world. The police that populate our streets are light years ahead of those in some other parts of the world.

I kind of would hope that the standards we set for our police officers are higher than just being better than the corrupt forces in economically disadvantaged countries. I'm interested in how Canadian police officers measure up to Canadian standards. It's completely irrelevant how they compare to other countries. Our health care system is much better than many other countries, that doesn't make it above reproach or criticism.

I will agree that it's probably a little unfair to lump Canadian police and American police together, but it gets tiring when we see completely inexcusable actions perpetrated by American police defended by some of their Canadian counterparts on this board.

There are a number of things the various police forces in Canada could do to restore their image and credibility, but instead of getting out in front and being proactive, they resort to defensive and stand-offish tactics, and then wonder why the public reacts in the manner they do.