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.
I know Police Unions in the USA are obscenely powerful (and corrupt) is it the same in Canada?
The Union in Winnipeg is powerful enough to bankrupt the City not only morally but financially as well so I’d say ya.
They also cover up for drunk driving cops who murder civilians and keep abusive cops on the rolls but that’s standard right?
I don’t want to make general statements, but Canadaland did a podcast on the horrible injustices within the Thunder Bay Police force.
One example of some pretty messed up stuff.