Nearly one year after the provincial government forced the removal of roadside speed cameras, Ottawa’s police chief says traffic enforcement has been extra challenging.
Chief Eric Stubbs told the Ottawa Police Service Board on Monday that there are more than 400 school zones and intersections officers would have to monitor to replace the reach of speed cameras.
This is you’re reminder that the Ottawa police was told by the RCMP that the Truck Convoy was bound to their city. They choose to ignore it.
They are fairly incompetent with or without speed cameras
Cops always side with right winger protests. OPP visibly sided with the truckers as well as the Ottawa cops, RCMP would as well had they been forced into the issue.
It’s ACAB for a reason.
I’m just here to say fuck Doug Ford. He has blood on his hands.
They all do. It’s class warfare FFS it’s unreasonable to think they don’t act in unison while pushing social issues to distract us.
Let me guess, it’s budget season and the cops are asking for a big time raise.
Yes, and yes. But I somehow don’t think OPS waits for budget season to do that.
We do we need some bloated guy with a gun to hand out speeding tickets?
Change the law to allow deputies like parking enforcement to write speeding tickets. They will pay for themselves.
The problem is of any interaction cops have with the public, catching a DUI is definitely close to the top for chance of a violent incident.
Especially when we all know full well those speed cameras worked, and couldn’t be harmed like a person can.
It’s also reasonable that the chance of violence would be even higher than with cops since it’s unlikely the ticket giver is armed. People get violent with even parking tickets, so that’s going to be a non negligible percentage of interactions.
As much as I hate cops, running traffic is kind of what I want them doing, assuming they’re not targetting anyone anyway. They’re pretty much worthless at every other aspect of their jobs as far as the public facing ones anyway. They’re obviously very good at protecting Capitalists, since that’s their actual job.