Yes, exactly. I'd happily grant that White says all the right things, and that he's probably a very well meaning, hard working, terrific individual and cop. I imagine that you would agree.

But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. He might be a good chief who is doing good work, but we sure aren't seeing it in tangible results. The implication seems to be that the OPS deserves the benefit of the doubt because a)White is an impressive chief, and b)most cops are good people. But despite these things we've still got a pattern of abuse and subsequent cover-ups at OPS, so perhaps, just perhaps, we should ask if Vern White's outrage is a sufficient response to a seemingly systemic problem.

Updates:
- OttCit reports another case of claimed abuse of a woman while detained by the OPS on Chief White's watch: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Woman+alleges+a…

- Mayor Watson to be sworn-in Tuesday.evening. Announces plans to spend his first day in office visiting city employees in the the offices and the work yards. Wants to bond with the staff. Apparently, meeting with the Chief of the force that has been repeatedly charged with abusing Ottawa citizens is not on our Mayor-elect's agenda.

cops are criminals beware of harper and fantino

We have a problem Canada!
The police used uncalled for force.
School authorities don't bother reporting the gang rape of a child during a school trip.
Teachers who report the systematice faliure of our school to protect children from repeat sex offenders is forced out of teaching, professionally terminated, reprimanded by the Ontario College of Teachers and then suspended from teaching becuase he dare question a policy that allows repeat sex offenders to teach in our schools.
If our school system can get away with this garbage, one thing we can bet on is simple. Not one police officer will ever come forward to stop beatings………….. NOT ONE!
Watch these filthy pictures and watch the body langauge. If a teacher, a former judge turned Ontario Teacher can be destroyed by the Ontario College of Teachers, you think one single cop will run the risk of losing the support of his fellow officers….you got another thing coming.
Citizens, we let this situation happen, it is our fault. Want to do something about it. Ask your MPP to vote to let the Ontario Ombudsman into our schools, our hospitals, and our police forces.

The physical abetting of the kneeing of Bonds proves the matter against the 4 cops. It is logical to presume that 4 trained officers (within their holding facility) ought to be able to restrain a 100 pound woman without using swinging knee kicks. The matter following of them having Bonds lay in her own urine proves that there was a failure to care for the dignity of bonds. Those two matters each confirm malice and confirm that it was a false arrest. There was not any attempt to ask Bonds to undress her bra and nor was there a reason to presume a risk of suicide. Where there was the assault undressing thru force gave Bonds reason to fear that the assault was sexual.

The physical abetting of the kneeing of Bonds proves the matter against the 4 cops. It is logical to presume that 4 trained officers (within their holding facility) ought to be able to restrain a 100 pound woman without using swinging knee kicks. The matter following of them having Bonds lay in her own urine proves that there was a failure to care for the dignity of bonds. Those two matters each confirm malice and confirm that it was a false arrest. There was not any attempt to ask Bonds to undress her bra and nor was there a reason to presume a risk of suicide. Where there was the assault undressing thru force gave Bonds reason to fear that the assault was sexual.

On January 12, 2005 my son suffered similar police mistreatment, in his bedroom, for no apparent reason, because four Saanich Constables wanted him to go to a hospital for toxicology testing. They didn't identify themselves as police, were not wearing hats, and assumed that he could not understand them, while he waited for an explanation, unarmed, lying on his bed, as he had completely undressed himself, and was also not wearing his prescription glasses – so wondered if they were mislead or mistaken paramedics. To his horror, and mine when I learned of is about a half-hour later from a friend who arrived outside my son's house while the police were inside, the officers then yanked him off his bed, hog-tied him on the hardwood floor, and as one of them pressed his knee down on my son's head, Tasered him five times. He was then handcuffed and forced to lie on his cuffed hands while being taken by ambulance to a hospital. In the hospital, he was found to have zero toxicology, yet was given a sedative injection and a variety of non-required medications over a period of 16 days, until I was able to advocate for him to be discharged. We then sought a second medical opinion from a doctor at the University Clinic my son had gone to the day before this Taser incident. That doctor ordered my son to be given full academic concession as a student so that he could withdraw and move back to Alberta. It was as though the doctor thought no student who had suffered such unjust treatment, could remain safe living in the vicinity patrolled by the Saanich Police. The BC Police Commissioner did a white-wash on my son's complaint of Torture, and refused to allow a public hearing. I read the Criminal Code – then wrote up 11 counts of criminal charges, including Torture, contrary to Section 269.1 and my husband drove back to Victoria and swore them as a private information application to a Judge on Dec. 22, 2008. Christine Lowe (so-called Crown Prosecutor) quashed that application, refusing to accept my son's and our prima-facie evidence. She admitted she had already read a police report – I wonder, is that because she's married to Stan Lowe (BC Police Commissioner)?

Part III Later, as my son's lawyer in Alberta (who previously had an office in BC also) was on vacation, awaiting response from the lawyer acting for the Saanich Police in the civil claim to produce the "use of force report" and a long list of other undertakings, that Defence lawyer for the Saanich Police, began harrassing my son and his wife and myself by telephoning and sending e-mail and letters slandering and threatening to libel us. The risks of waiting for his lawyer to provide another referral were such that my son wrote back to one of the letters and said he would withdraw the civil claim without costs – because the lawyer was threatening that my son would have to pay $10,000 in court costs. With that letter, that lawyer then applied for a dismissal with costs – attempting to aggravate the damages with more extortion! I attended to Justice Parrett's hearing of that chambers application, as my son's legal representative. He said "I know it's not just", and ordered the case dismissed without costs. He also gave right t us as co-plaintiffs to continue as plaintiffs in the BC Court of Appeal. We filed the notice – but can not afford the costs and trauma of providing all the evidence again, in triplicate, to a tribunal of judges.

These officers should be fired, period. They acted with a gang mentality, and obviously do not have what it takes to be 'officers of the law'. Given their jobs back, they will again abuse their uniform. The bigger question remains: how did the Ontario Solicitors office dismiss this case, deeming the actions of the officers justifiable?

Fired? How about arrested. If a group of people kidnapped, stripped and videotaped a young woman in the middle of the night, that would be their fait. They would be put onto a sex offenders registry for the rest of their lives. There is no conceivable way that these thugs thought they were doing police work. There should be an extra charge for hiding behind the badge.

What if she said she was going to kill herself? Wouldn't they have had to cut her bra off? What would have happened if she did hang herself with that bra? Imagine what all of these comments would be like? The front page of every paper and magazine would be blaming the police for not protecting her. There would be a public inquiry of course! What if she was resisting so they had to physically force her to do what they were requesting? What if? Does anyone even consider that she might not be the innocent victim???? My god, let the investigation conclude before we judge. This is disgusting.