at any dysfunctional family function...
The Figen@TheFigen_
No way! On what occasion would you wear this?
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Between Provinces
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Between Provinces
@makeitBUtiful
Harmed patient since the early 90's. Aspiring journalist and advocate (yes, you can be both). Not going to stop fighting for us💕 Between Provinces. All TRUTH.
Calgary, Alberta Bergabung Ocak 2015
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I'm digging through Ontario's ombudsman's report on how complaints from correctional facilities are up 55% (to 6,870).
I remain gobsmacked at how Canada's whole political spectrum has slid into inflicting suffering through jail when 4 in 5 behind bars are awaiting trial.
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Please listen to Kelly’s update: share.google/0sEiLKSSwQEvdA…
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Policing reminds me of the medical profession. Instead of blue vests, it's white coats.
KellyDonovan.ca (She/They)@Fit4Duty_Ethics
"Come join our police service!" they said. "It'll be fun and rewarding" they said. 9 years AFTER resigning: (Someone please describe this as anything other than epic institutional failure)
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and yet real live people blame other humans....
Elon Musk@elonmusk
AI bots will be more human than human
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Why did I start this account?
Because I’ve lived what too many people are still fighting through trauma, addiction, homelessness, and I know something the world doesn’t say enough:
People can change. Lives can be rebuilt.
Hope is real.
I’m here for anyone who’s struggling…
and for anyone who loves someone who is.
Because no one is beyond redemption!
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Police in Central Park thought they were hunting down a skilled pickpocket after multiple visitors reported their phones mysteriously disappearing without anyone noticing a thing.
But while officers were questioning people in the park, a raccoon suddenly ran up, grabbed a phone, and exposed itself as the real thief. After chasing it through the trees, police found a hidden stash of stolen phones tucked away in a raccoon’s hiding spot.
They later announced that anyone missing a phone in Central Park could check with the station to claim it.
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The police's lies put Umar Zameer in jail, where he missed the birth of his daughter. Zameer then faced a trial based on bogus evidence before being found not guilty
After the verdict, chief Demkiw infamously said the Toronto Police were “hoping for a different outcome”
CP24@CP24
#BREAKING: Ontario police clear 3 cops accused of lying at trial that followed officer’s death cp24.com/local/toronto/…
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@mobinfiltrator 👏👏👏
This is such a well-written post about the “strategic” loophole known as “scope limitation” that’s baked into the referral paperwork when one police service engages an outside police service to investigate themselves.
I recently spent 3 months dealing with this very thing related to a massive criminal investigation that OPP referred to NBPS back in June 2025 related to incidents involving an OPP officer and her colleagues that occurred between Feb 2022 and June 2025.
Where OPP acted with willful blindness (in his post below) by hiding behind the limitations of “investigative scope” with regards to the additional recordings (they didn’t ask us so how could we possibly investigate additional incidents of malfeasance for which evidence clearly exists???), in my case, NBPS went back to OPP and insisted that they be allowed to expand the scope of the referral when, 4 months into their investigation, they learned that the same officer they were asked by OPP to investigate was continuing to engage in the same criminal conduct they had been tasked with investigating. It took some time but NBPS did the right thing.
The real issue is the CSPA. By allowing a police service to control the extent of what an independent investigative team is and is not permitted to investigate, the CSPA (which isn’t even two years old) has provided police organizations who already have some serious ethical problems to address (hence the need for an outside investigation) a way to codify their intent to require outside investigators to wilfully neglect to perform their duties should those “independent” investigators become aware of new information related the people and events that are the subject of the sanctioned investigation…this is literally “dereliction of duty” under the guise of “scope limitation”.
#epic #fail
Paul Manning@mobinfiltrator
Last long one for a while. People keep telling you OPP investigations are “independent.” I’ve dealt with this exact situation, a Chief’s Complaint, and here’s how it actually played out. A Chief’s Complaint in Ontario is when a police chief triggers an external investigation into internal officer conduct, handed to another service to 'appear' independent. July 2018, I was given recordings made by a civilian source. Those recordings included Matt Skof, then president of the Ottawa Police Association, discussing an undercover investigation with a civilian and making serious allegations about others within the system. They also included direct allegations against El-Chantry, a member of the police service board being involved in organized crime, and that Chief Bordeleau and his senior management team had conspired to obstruct justice in another OPP Chief Complaint investigation into a Superintendent. Towards the end of July, I released the first recording on a Friday afternoon. The timing was deliberate. By now I'd been playing this game long enough to know how they cover and conceal wrongdoing. I needed the Chief to call a Chiefs Complaint. I knew there was a Police Services Board meeting on the Monday. A Friday release showing Skof had been revealing detail and especially the way he talked about El-Chnatry would force an in-camera meeting on the Monday. The plan was simple, force the issue into the open and trigger that Chief’s Complaint. You can't withdraw a Chiefs complaint once it's called. That was my goal. Monday came and while the Board was in camera, I released the additional recordings and alerted the media. Some three hours after, the Chief came out of the in-camera meeting and announced a Chief’s Complaint and that he would ask the OPP to investigate the recordings, not knowing of the new releases. At that moment, the public impression was clear - this would be an independent investigation into serious allegations. Right? That’s where things changed. The recordings didn’t just involve Skof. The new recordings contained allegations about the others, including the claims of obstruction of justice involving the Chief and the rest of senior Ottawa police management. Media began asking questions about those broader allegations. The Chief, caught off guard, offered no comment of course. In August 2018, I was served with a cease and desist from an Ottawa law firm, Caza Saikaley LLP, funded by taxpayers, demanding the recordings be removed form YouTube. I took them down from YouTube, but left them up on LiveLeak. There was no mention of LiveLeak. There was no follow-up. Then, about two months later, the assigned OPP investigator contacted me. Wanted to interview me on tape. Sure. I had no issue with that. But I asked a direct question: Would the investigation extend to the other allegations captured on the recordings, including potential obstruction involving senior management? His answer was clear. "I've been instructed to investigate Skof only, and nothing else." I asked for clarification, specifically about senior management and the obstruction allegations. He confirmed he had specifically been told not to go there. And that’s the issue with these independent investigations. The scope of this investigation was set from the top. Selective investigation. When serious allegations are captured on recordings, you either investigate all of it, or you don’t call it independent. Skof was charged with criminal breach of trust and obstruction of justice. 6 Years later, when Ottawa police had assumed everyone had stopped paying attention Skof pled guilty to a provisional offense under 'information and privacy laws.' That means the Crown had to withdraw the charges in front of a Judge with explanation. Then lay the new Provisional offense in front of a Judge with explanation, and Skof went and paid his fine. No criminal record. He effectively got a speeding ticket for blowing the cover of an undercover operative. He was able to retire with his full pension. Meanwhile, the broader allegations captured in those same recordings were never examined. Never even looked at. Here’s the pattern - - recordings emerge - serious allegations are captured - the institution moves quickly - lawyers move to contain - the investigation scope is narrowed - one individual is dealt with - the rest is left untouched - the public is told the system worked I want to tell you the system didn’t work. But it really did. It worked to protect those in power from scrutiny, or even charges of criminality. A real independent investigation doesn’t cherry-pick the safest target, a scape goat, and ignore the rest. If recordings contain allegations touching a union boss, an undercover file, a board chair, and senior management, you would expect them to investigate all of it. They didn't, and that's not accountability. It’s containment. It's pretense. It's fucking wrong. You think the recent OPP investigation into Toronto was 'independent,' or do you think it followed the same investigative standard as this one? I'm not saying it wasn't, but if I had to go off my personal experience ... #police #ocrruption #onpoli #canpoli
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@dawnwade I’ll raise you an OPP officer for a psychiatrist! This is NUTS!
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I am so sorry you were put into the CJS system because of a false report. Truly.
My life was also destroyed because my now former partner was falsely accused of fabricated historical (10 years old) domestic occurrences and wrongfully charged back in 2022; and in the aftermath of her arrest, both she and I continued to be falsely reported to police by the same complainant for YEARS.
The irony is that both the complainant and my former girlfriend are OPP officers.
I hold out little hope that anything will ever change with regard to policing here in Canada.
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“Prosecutors should report Charter violations to Police Chiefs” share.google/Qw9MXMP5iylCpg…
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@dawnwade Yes. Makes sense. I refer to them as simply the Crown (I’m from Ontario too)!
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@makeitBUtiful And CA is the Crown Attorney…the equivalent of a DA (District Attorney).
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@dawnwade Okay that’s what I was thinking. I’ve heard of the IO (investigating officer)…
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Sorry…the Officer in Charge. And yours is a worthy cause. I have a 24 year old step son who has organic brain damage. He looks and speaks like your average young adult but is actually developmentally disabled with the IQ of a 4th grader because he has very limited memory capacity. He is precisely the kind of individual who is vulnerable to exploitation and likely to be caught up in the CJS or shot and killed by responding officers during a crisis.
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@JonSThompson do you think you could DM me so we can connect?
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