Quebec police are refusing to answer questions from the oversight body investigating civilian deaths and serious injuries during police interventions. This is after

[Police] unions also challenged the obligation for officers to meet with … investigators. They argued that those rules infringed on their members’ constitutional rights to stay silent and not incriminate themselves.

It’s part of a national trend:

in British Columbia, police officers rarely co-operate with the Independent Investigations Office …, while they often only partly co-operate with independent oversight bodies in other provinces.

  • Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    But they wouldn’t be removed from the force, that’s the issue. They’d just be moved to a different jurisdiction where they can continue sucking. It’s not really that ACAB, but the police institution is a bastard, and until that changes ACAB will continue to be the norm.