Jamie Prosser 🇨🇦🍁

This concept of institutional loyalty within law enforcement, and the prioritizing of the institution over individual members or public service always leads to ethical dilemmas. Those dilemmas lead to police corruption or internal betrayal. The solution isn't complicated. The truth should always be the goal. As soon as a high ranking members considers how to deal with an issue through the lens of "protecting the organization" - they have already started down the wrong path.

@mobinfiltrator I sense it is something more - shouldn't take two years to investigate improper use of CPIC.

@HangingWire Probably something stupid like CPIC for dates.

Yesterday alone in #Canada. Officer. Kenneth Campo, 45, of Windsor Police Department, was arrested and charged today with breach of trust, contrary to section 122 of the Criminal Code. Bathurst Police Department Officer. Nathan Pitre, 28, was charged this week by the Serious Incident Response Team. This is getting hard to monitor and discuss now. #onpoli #canpoli

@mobinfiltrator We have seen slow restriction from the Supreme Court of any forms of "public view" surveillance over the last 15 years. Technology advancements are a big part of the narrowing of authority. Fine line - how private should someone be when they are in public?

I’m all for putting bad guys away. I built a career on it. Covert methods mostly. Wires. Surveillance. Undercover. And I do subsequently have issues now with the morality of undercover work, but thats a separate argument in itself. Now with surveillance, there's a line. When police departments like Edmonton start using AI to identify people in public, we’ve moved beyond 'targeted policing' into something much broader. This isn’t just CCTV capturing evidence after the fact. This is systems actively scanning, matching, and processing everyone, not because they’ve done anything wrong, but because they happen to be there. That’s where I have a problem. Policing has always been built on grounds. Investigation. Suspicion, intelligence, behaviour. You focus your attention where justified. Now? The model risks becoming: "let's watch everyone, sort it out later." Yes, these tools will catch criminals. But at what cost? If a law-abiding citizen is being analyzed, tracked, and potentially flagged by the same systems used to hunt organized crime, without cause, then we’ve blurred a line that matters. Because once this level of surveillance becomes normal, it doesn’t roll back. It expands. And if we don’t set clear limits now, legal thresholds, oversight, transparency, we risk building a system where the only difference between a criminal and an innocent person … … is what an AI system hasn’t flagged yet. That’s not a trade-off we should accept lightly, because the system will make mistakes. And those mistakes at the end of the day will cost people temporary loss of freedom, and the taxpayer finically. EDIT: Just to quickly add to this. We hear daily of officers abusing computer databases for personal gain, especially when it comes to relationships. This system WILL be abused and there's no way to police that. #onpoli #canpoli #police

So much to this. Police agencies do audit overtime - they just audit the wrong thing. They know "how much" and the justification...they don't audit the true "why". This abuse almost always comes back to poor leadership and lack of accountability. That is what needs to be audited.

So overtime fraud. Overtime fraud isn’t rare, it’s just rarely exposed. Working specialized units in #Canada, I’ve seen officers in drugs/ OC units burn the first 6 hours of a shift - breakfast, chatting, gym - then roll out late, serve a warrant, and suddenly claim 8 hours OT. *The CFSEU GH RCMP were terrible for this back when I worked there. And that’s the mild end. In Jacksonville, #Florida, three officers have been charged after allegedly claiming more than 450 hours of OT they never worked, netting over $33,000. That’s not working the system, it's just common theft. Taxpayers fund policing. They don’t expect to fund hours that were never worked. Real accountability means auditing OT, not just reacting when it blows up. And there is zero auditing of OT at any police department I've worked for. #onpoli #canpoli #police #corruption

Tell me again why Canadians should not be allowed to have firearms for home defense? I'll wait!

@mark_slapinski You are a terrible person!

BREAKING: Trump strongly suggests he could use a NUCLEAR WEAPON on Iran tomorrow night!

@ChrisLewisLLS And far too many "leaders" fall for it!! That has always surprised me because those who are getting their butt's kissed later in their careers must have seen the phenomenon unfold as they rose through the ranks.

The butt-kissers are often not your hardest-working, smartest or most loyal #people. They simply tell you that.

@sarahadams @mark_slapinski Not all of us... but @mark_slapinski is certainly topping the list.

@mark_slapinski Canadians continue to show us that they are useful idiots to terrorist propaganda

I'm confused Why is America bombing hospitals and schools in Iran?

@VGircys I used mine (old style and collapsible) many times... but never on another person. Valuable tool, breaking windows at accidents to access occupants; entry on search warrants etc. A couple of times just snapping the collapsible open did the job. Coppers need every advantage.

If that's a patrol rifle, what's an assault rifle? Before police were issued with collapsible ASP steel batons they were issued with a 24" wooden baton. I once heard a child call it a "whacking stick" so I corrected him calling it a "baton". When he asked what it was for and I told him it was for whacking people. A mandatory piece of issued equipment. I never used it once.

@mobinfiltrator Go Habs!!!!

I only know two things for certain about Quebec ... Montreal is beautiful ... Like the French, Québécois don't have a sense of humor ...

@mark_slapinski Very misleading and typical of "journalism" today. Bullet fragmented and was too damaged to compare...that is different from "did NOT MATCH". Try and be better.

OMG: The bullet that killed Right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk did NOT MATCH the gun that shooter Tyler Robinson possessed, according to court documents. Was it possible Robinson was framed? Discuss.

@VGircys Your pronouns are the only think you will own.....

Let the Pronoun Wars begin !

@yonkojohn I am not sure Frank Luger is the standard for "internal affairs" we want, but he was entertaining. That said, your point is valid. Strong, ethical Professional Standards investigators are essential. And, I believe the arrests you refer to were Toronto PD. CHeers

The seven Police officers arrested in Peel tells me there's another twenty or so still walking around and probable 200 to 400 operating illegally in Canada today. The uniform and badge are great cover and without Frank Luger, "Inspector Frank Luger internal affairs, Barney Miller era" types, police run amuck here in Canada!

@mobinfiltrator Who are we talking about? Which agency?

For what reason would the Chief of an #Ontario police department get himself two drivers on rotation, rather than drive himself? 1/ He’s lazy? 2/ He has a budget to burn through? 3/ He got arrested for drink drive and they decided to hide it from public scrutiny? * If anyone has any knowledge of the same … I’m all ears!

@mobinfiltrator Not exactly but either way I think we agree the lack of SIU charges doesnt mean no charges at all. That is the real point.

Once there’s serious harm, SIU owns the investigation. Laying provincial charges early (without any evidence) may be lawful, but it can still influence how the incident is framed publicly. (We already think he's guilty!) And how would OPP do an investigation? Correct if wrong (because I really don't know) but I thought police service can't speak to officer or witnesses once SIU invoke. It's probably why the SIU ran through this one so fast. To not miss that 6 month deadline, so he can be charged HTA.

I read through this one and really don’t understand it. #Ontario Police vehicle plows into the rear of stationary vehicle on hard shoulder. No distraction or other reason offered by officer for accident, which suggests lack of attention. The officer clearly at fault, and mistakes do happen. However to say they found “nothing criminal” is neither here nor there. The Special Investigations Unit can (and should) absolutely lay charges under the Highway Traffic Act (non criminal) if an officer is at fault in a collision causing injury. They’re not limited to criminal charges, as they suggest, if the evidence supports it, HTA offences like careless driving can be laid. Police should not be above the law. But this decision proves they clearly are. #police #onpoli #canpoli

@mobinfiltrator It is still within 6 months so they still have jurisdiction Provincially. It is poor reporting because the differences were not explained. Police may have already laid an HTA charge and the matter held down until SIU decided. Too early to suggest a cover up/lack of accountability

@HangingWire Yeah, this is one of those accidents that almost every cop goes through. You might be right. Might just get handed down to professional standards for charging HTA.

@TPS_32Planner I would think they will if they haven't already. Bad reporting really didn't tell the whole story. There is still time for an HTA charge but they may have waited to see if SIU was going to lay something Criminal.

One would think that the OPP would have charged him with Careless Driving by now. Nothing suggests any criminality by neglect or intent.

@McLeanChronicle Was an HTA charge laid?

Maybe another police force could reinvestigate the accident? Might have a different result?