Cops want masks outlawed
With the dust not entirely settled from the latest annual bottle-throwing, fireworks-shooting protest targeting his forces, a top cop yesterday used the opportunity to try to revive a Montreal police campaign to outlaw masks.
A similar effort petered out last year, following objections by civil-liberties groups.
“If people were wearing masks, it was to hide their identities – possibly because they wanted to commit offences,” Chief Insp. Sylvain Lemay told rue.frontenac.
Investigation: Officers under pressure to make quotas
Vancouver prepping for olympics with new crowd control device
Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics, CBC News has learned.
The medium-range acoustic device (MRAD) can use sound as a weapon, emitting piercing sounds at frequency levels that cross the human threshold of pain and are potentially damaging to hearing, say audio experts.
But it is primarily designed as a communications device that's clearly audible up to a kilometre away, say police.
Why are police above the law?
Just having coffee with their mates, @ blenz yaletown. No emergency apart from needing a latte. Pretty much pisses me off because it's taken for granted that police do this and it's somehow ok. *purposely witheld license plates
Shreveport cop gets job back after he beat shit out of female prisoner, after he turned off the holding cell camera.
This story makes me sick: 
That's one hell of a fall.
RCMP's lawyer quits Dziekanski Taser inquiry
"The change came after Roberts made a tearful apology at the inquiry for failing to disclose an RCMP email that suggested the four Mounties who responded to a call to Vancouver International Airport made plans to stun Dziekanski with a Taser before they saw him. Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant, died in the airport's arrivals lounge in October 2007 after being stunned. Roberts had said the failure to disclose the email was an accidental oversight. Before the email was revealed, the four officers had stated under oath that they had not discussed using the stun gun before arriving at the airport. The email, from RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to assistant commissioner Al McIntyre, said that: "Finally, spoke to Wayne and he indicated that the members did not articulate that they saw the symptoms of excited delirium, but instead had discussed the response en route and decided that if he did not comply that they would go to CEW."
No video of fatal police shooting recovered from bystander's phone
Efforts to uncover a video recording of a fatal police shooting in
Vancouver from a bystander's cellphone have been unsuccessful,
according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.
The organization had sent the cellphone out to specialists in an
attempt to recover the recording, which was allegedly erased by a
police officer
The Vancouver Police Department alleged Michael Van Hubbard, 58, was
advancing on officers with a knife, when police shot and killed him in
downtown Vancouver in March,