It was probably one of those anarchists from Seattle - they're always plotting to overthrow downtown Vancouver

Horrible.

I'm sure there's a crime or two lying around that needs to be pinned on someone, and you have a couple of someone right there.

Is this like being arrested for resisting arrest? There has to be a punchline here somewhere.

And, did they apologise to the second dude they arrested too?

Keystone Kops indeed..............

Gyrfalcon: I thought that said "various police" and I thought Well, finally, someone just combined them all into one big story...

I found your comment to be humorous.

/ A++ .. will find it humorous later today when i read it again

I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

what people portraying LEO's in CA might look like



hotlink

Here in Toronto the police were cleared for beat a deaf man to death for not answering their questions about an incident that he was not at and no crime took place .

Cleared for beating ..... ( can't spell when pissed off )

Ain't no arresting like a Vancouver arresting...

Magic_Button: Here in Toronto the police were cleared for beat a deaf man to death for not answering their questions about an incident that he was not at and no crime took place .

I bet you're one of those hippies who thinks police need some kind of reason before exercising their authority. His family should consider themselves lucky they're not being fined by the city for wasting their time with that trifling matter, and remember how much they'll be begging for the cops when $scary_social_subgroup is breaking into their home with AK-47s and machetes and balloons filled with acid.

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

No that's England.

they always get there man, even if its the wrong man, or when no crime has been committed.

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

Isolated incidents non-withstanding, of course.

Like this (new window)

Or this (new window)

Or this (new window)

Gah. It's cromulent!

pray_for_mojo: Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

Isolated incidents non-withstanding, of course.

Like this (new window)

Or this (new window)

Or this (new window)

First link: I remember that, that was pretty messed up.

Second link: Also messed up but they weren't Vancouver cops, they were arrested by Vancouver cops though.

Third link: Her behaviour was quite strange and I can believe the cop's story about her reaching for his belt/firearm. I don't think they could have known that she had CP. That one seems like both sides were at fault.

I like the VPD, they're better than some of the RCMP guys around Vancouver. Also, if you're looking for a place to speed then just go to West Van, the cops there don't care too much, they don't need the money.

WAY TO GO VANCOUVER!

they went to a guys house, kicked the crap out of him because he resisted arrest...
they were at the wrong house...

The cops in British Columbia are bent. They'll hire anyone...

James Scameron: WAY TO GO VANCOUVER!

they went to a guys house, kicked the crap out of him because he resisted arrest...
they were at the wrong house...

The cops in British Columbia are bent. They'll hire anyone whomever the Hells Angels tell them to hire.

Fixed.

change1211: I like the VPD, they're better than some of the RCMP guys around Vancouver. Also, if you're looking for a place to speed then just go to West Van, the cops there don't care too much, they don't need the money.

I agree, to a point. Then again, isn't that like saying you prefer liver ice-cream to kidney?

Considering more than a few BC RCMPs are currently under investigation for: Drug dealing, stealing evidence, using excessive force and sexual harassment (Against other officers), it isn't much of a contest.

The Vancouver Police Department has issued an official apology to a 51-year-old man who was injured during an arrest, on Thursday.

They did? Oh. Canada.

Agent Smiths Laugh: Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

No that's England.

I'm sorry, but on Fark, it's called Britain and it's one country and everyone there speaks British. I have looked in vain for a real British dictionary, for they all turn out to be liars claiming to contain English, which we all know is only spoken in The United Land of God, no matter how badly the spelling has been raped over and left for dead.

Magic_Button: Here in Toronto the police were cleared for beat a deaf man to death for not answering their questions about an incident that he was not at and no crime took place .

Was that wrong? Should they not have done that?
Cause I am sure if they had known .....

ObscureNameHere: James Scameron: WAY TO GO VANCOUVER!

they went to a guys house, kicked the crap out of him because he resisted arrest...
they were at the wrong house...

The cops in British Columbia are bent. They'll hire anyone whomever the Hells Angels tell them to hire.

Fixed.

exactly.

James Scameron: ObscureNameHere: James Scameron: WAY TO GO VANCOUVER!

they went to a guys house, kicked the crap out of him because he resisted arrest...
they were at the wrong house...

The cops in British Columbia are bent. They'll hire anyone whomever the Hells Angels tell them to hire.

Fixed.

exactly.

Any proof of this? My flight instructor has a friend who is undergoing the hiring process with the VPD right now and it sounds absolutely insane.

VPD do some stupid shiat, but of all the many reasons Vancouver sucks, they are the least of it.

_{/and at least they're not RCMP}

You drag the wrong suspect in,
you throw the wrong suspect out
you drag the wrong suspect in
you shake him all about

you drag the right suspect in
you throw the right suspect out
you drag the right suspect in
you shake him all about

you find no crime turn yourself around
that's what its all about

pray_for_mojo: Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: I thought that's how it worked in Canada, the police ask if it wouldn't be any trouble if they had a word with you, explain the spot of bother, ask that you not do it again if you didn't mind terribly, and then let you go.

Isolated incidents non-withstanding, of course.

Like this (new window)

Or this (new window)

Or this (new window)



Mistakes were made...

To be fair, they only had 47 weeks to look through the video evidence so they couldn't be sure they had the right guy. And they didn't tase him, so there's that, too.

What the Canadian police officer may look like.

change1211: James Scameron: ObscureNameHere: James Scameron: WAY TO GO VANCOUVER!

they went to a guys house, kicked the crap out of him because he resisted arrest...
they were at the wrong house...

The cops in British Columbia are bent. They'll hire anyone whomever the Hells Angels tell them to hire.

Fixed.

exactly.

Any proof of this? My flight instructor has a friend who is undergoing the hiring process with the VPD right now and it sounds absolutely insane.

have you not read any of the links provided?

"cops found with cocaine"
"cops fired for sleeping with girlfriend in murder case"
"off duty cops beat newspaper vendor and rob him"

the entire BC police force is a free for all of scumbags protected from the lowest to the highest rung.
metro and RCMP are all as bad.

its the weekend. do yourself a favour and read up.

tell your friend to be a paramedic or fireman first...then he/she can see firsthand the corruption and gang style behaviour. 80% of the force could be considered psychopaths...

they are checked on the way in, not on the way out...

"do ya wanna make tea
at the CBC
do ya really wanna be
do ya really wanna be a Cop?"
-Strummer

(regional paraphrase)

Still on the lam?

pray_for_mojo: change1211: I like the VPD, they're better than some of the RCMP guys around Vancouver. Also, if you're looking for a place to speed then just go to West Van, the cops there don't care too much, they don't need the money.

I agree, to a point. Then again, isn't that like saying you prefer liver ice-cream to kidney?

Considering more than a few BC RCMPs are currently under investigation for: Drug dealing, stealing evidence, using excessive force and sexual harassment (Against other officers), it isn't much of a contest.

Damn, thanks for ruining the warm fuzzies I had regarding the RCMPs (versus the FBI and various state police agencies).

It seems like the whole pacific northwest big city police forces (Portland, Seattle/Tacoma, Vancouver) massively overcompensate for the lack of actual crime by taking out wildly out-of-proportion aggression on relatively small fry, like panhandlers and shoplifters. You'd think the affluence and low crime rates would make their lives more boring and aggression-sapping, not causing.

On the other hand, LAPD and NYPD have enough "real crime" to fill every officer's time 24 hours every day, yet they still find plenty of time to bully small fry and innocents. Maybe being a cop is just too crappy a job to let most of the people who want to be one in.