Let me tell you a story about police officers doing inappropriate things with some inappropriate ladies.
This one is juicy.
In the summer, I was new to Toronto. Heard lots about Toronto's "finest" police force, whatever. As long as they kept me safe, that's great.
I went to the NIN concert at the Molson Amphitheatre.
As per usual, my boyfriend and I were forced to wait 20 minutes while security patted people down/checked out loose change and tampons in girls purses to make sure they weren't packing heat.
While security guards were trying to prevent crime, two Toronto police officers were trying to hook up. Actually.
Two women, slightly gross and definitely wasted, started swinging on the official police golf cart!
SHOCKING.
I thought that they were just drunken idiots that need to be told to STEP THE F DOWN and maybe thrown into the drunk tank for good measure.
The two male cops nearby however saw this an an opportunity to liven up their night...
The officers approached the ladies. I thought there was going to be a showdown. Instead it was a ho-down. The cops gently asked to them to come off the cart. The one lady used the lines:
"It's my Birthday!"
and
"I'm from England, check out my super hot accent! You can't resist."
The cops, in fact, couldn't resist.
They began flirting and taking pictures with one cops fingers grasped around the two girls hips.
Oh, and did I mention, ONE OF THE GIRLS TOOK THE OFFICER'S HAT?
And was wearing it in the pictures.
I couldn't make this shit up.
I was frantically trying to take my own pictures of the occurrence too! All I had was a cellphone camera which took blurry, dark pictures that could've been any drunken bitches with any on the job authority figure. I was disappointed that no one would ever know.
Until...
A far superior officer with cropped grey hair and very annoyed look on his face approached the man from behind while one of the drunkards was taking their picture with drunkard #2.
They were caught in the act!
And the superior officer was pissed off.
The two officers immediately straightened up, stole back the hat and told the ladies to be on their way. Unfortunately for them, I think they were being sent on their way too...
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ReplyDeleteExcellent post. It’s certainly shows the interesting changes that are going on in the Toronto Police Service these days.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, there are some cops started their jobs when the service was still mostly an alpha-male, macho-type cult, and still behave that way. On the other hand, senior brass today is trying to churn out new officers who are respected community leaders and social workers.
Yes, change does take time, but when we see cops behaving like this, its no wonder citizens think change isn’t happening fast enough.
Stories like this are a reason why I think it’s great that becoming a police officer is becoming more and more difficult these days. Today, at least in the TPS, they are starting to look for life experience and credentials more than anything else.
Gone are the days when you can sign up for the force at 18. Most of the cops coming out of the police college are aged 26 and above. Many have years of experience behind them from other police agencies. Many have undergraduate and even master’s degrees. Many have worked as community leaders even before putting on the uniform.
I think this is a good thing. If you give a gun to an 18-year-old fresh out of high school, he or she will likely wield it a lot differently than someone who is 36 years old, has a wife and kid at home, and who is university educated.
To be fair, the vast majorities of cops out there do their jobs with integrity and professionalism, regardless of their credentials and experience. Most of them wear their hearts on their sleeves each day they do their job. But as for the two clowns you wrote about in your post, they definitely need to understand that all citizens need is one bad experience with police to undo any positive image of cops they may have had. Party hard on your own time, but when your uniform is on, you’re supposed to be a respected community leader and a professional investigator.
More and more these days, teenagers – particularly those from at-risk neighbourhoods – are doing summer jobs and internships with the police. Many of them end up seeing police officers as role models. It’s more important now than ever that cops behave like the professionals we expect them to be.
I also find it funny how some people are worried about being “over-surveillanced” and watched by the police. Stories like yours are proof that while cops are always watching us, we do an equally vigilant job of watching them as well.
Yep. Great text. This is citizen journalism and its changing the world. But your post needs pictures to be even more 'bookmarkable'. So get a good small camera with a powerful flash and keep it up. You might want to register with DigitalJournal.com if you intend to do more of this eye on the street stuff.
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