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Originally Posted by FireFly
The article also says:
Maybe she had sobered up?
I'm taking the 'intoxicated' to be an error in writing as it says she was put in the drunk tank for 6 hours to sober up. I wasn't there and I haven't read the documents in question. You'd have to be pretty drunk to take much longer than 6 hours to sober up.
Did she have a breathalyzer before she left? Do we know for certain she was still drunk?
I'm not saying there isn't anything wrong with the actions of the officer who took the lady home or the officer who released the lady to his care. Do we know that the officer who released the lady into the care of his fellow officer knew his intentions? No, we don't, so why are we blaming him?
Texting him and goading him to see how far he would go? Joking about a threesome? This is what our officers have become? This speaks more to the mentality of the department than anything else I've read in the article. Sounds like a great place to work for women, right?
I must be reading things completely different than everyone else. I see a guy who liked a girl and got caught up in a moment but admitted he was wrong. Without any further information I assume that the lady was not sexually assualted and this is just a misuse of power and a complete lack of judgement.
I also see that his fellow officers seem to think they work in a locker room and have no qualms about cracking jokes that would land people in hot water with HR for any other company. "Boys will be boys," right? It's not okay for a guy to lose his head over a girl he likes but it is okay for them to joke about sex with her and to taunt him into "going far" with her, whatever that means.
For all we know his intentions with her were honourable. I would like to think so and will continue to do so based on what I've read. Was what he did stupid? Absolutely. Should he be fired and thrown in jail for it? I don't think so.
Should the officers who think it's okay to joke about threesomes with prisoners be relieved of their duties? IMO, yes. It's part of the larger problem in the RCMP as indicated above.
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Wow, I have to say that you can sure split hairs.
If she was drunk enough to be taken to cells, I would suggest that she would need more than 6 hours to sober up. You can try this website out to see how you would do after an evening out:
http://whenwillibesober.com/
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An average liver can process approximately 1 unit of alcohol per hour. This means that if you drink 12 units, it'll take you roughly 12 hours to fully sober up. Our calculator uses an average for drinks size and strength to give you a rough time for sobriety
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I am not sure that I want an individual that can't make decisions exclusive of his penis, to be making decision in stressful situations. His decision making skills sound suspect at best.
He is a crazy idea. He ignores her advances (professionals do that), he doesn't go home and get changed, he doesn't come back he doesn't ask more than once to take her home with him, he doesn't take her home.
We never have this discussion.
All he had to do want make one, correct decision and this never happens.
But he didn't.