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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...rown-1.7213411
Further erosion to my faith in Alberta's justice system (and democracy in general). Which is perhaps a pretty big leap by me, but the perception is the bigger issue here.
Considering the police of all people determined internally that these cops broke the rules, then it's absolutely in the public interest to see this through.
Will be interesting to see how the civil action plays out.
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IANAL but I believe there can be quite a large gap between the investigation returning a "reasonable grounds to believe the officer committed a criminal offense" and having the actual evidence required to reasonably obtain a criminal conviction.
From what we can see, this seems pretty egregious, but if the hard evidence isn't there to win the case then it would just be wasted resources in an already overwhelmed legal system.
But even though a criminal conviction may not be possible, it seems like this was a serious offense and should have warranted more than a temporary demotion under the Police Act. I want the people hired to uphold the laws to be held to a much higher standard under their own act without it requiring to be "criminal".