Double Standard
When cops are arrested, the police can do two things: open up for an investigation and try to be as transparent as possible, or circle the wagons and try to keep their own from the fire.
The first option is the best, of course, and the police force has gone to great pains to make sure we all know there isn’t a double standard here. But there is a double standard, of course. While the rest of us would rot in jail (or rot on bail) with no method of support, the cops are suspended with pay.
There’s your double standard.
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Agreed…
currently the only way an officer can be suspended without pay is after he/she has been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to a prison term (Police Services Act 89(6). Which, with our speedy justice system, can take two years or more. All that on the taxpayer’s dollar.
There is a provision that reduces the officer’s pay by what he/she earns by other employment during that period (89(7), but still…
There may be a change on the way though (Lesage Report, 2005)
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs/LeSage/
July 8th, 2008 at 9:44 pm