Whitehorse man says RCMP hog-tied, tear gassed him before realizing they were at wrong house
Whitehorse man says RCMP hog-tied, tear gassed him before realizing they were at wrong house
Imagine being woken up at 4am and told to get on the ground while you get arrested, treated like a criminal, threatened, have guns pointed at you and then told .... sorry ... wrong house ... waddaygonnado
This is stuff you would expect in a third world country.
As a nurse, I have to verify your name and birthdate 27 times a day to make sure I don't give you any medications that could kill you, but a cop is allowed to just assume. No triple checking verification of an address or person's identity.
Cool. Totally makes sense 👍
I work in the finance industry and it's similar. We have to be certain we're talking to the right person as fraud is rampant. This is ridiculous.
But you guys get training to do what you do as efficiently and correctly at possible.
Police also get training .... they spend about three quarters of their time training how to use a gun and look at the world as a place with nothing but suspects and criminals that are ready to kill them. Basically they are trained thugs to intimidate the public and keep people in line.
They are performing exactly how they were trained.
On the other hand, if you think you're dealing with a dangerous criminal that can pull out a gun and shoot you and a buddy dead in the time it takes your squad to react and shoot him dead, I don't think it's reasonable to politely ask to see three forms of ID before tying up the target just in case you got the wrong house.
Sure, it's bad on them for getting the wrong place, but having to apologize to one person because they got the wrong house is far better than triple checking and asking the suspect to make sure they got the right place only to risk turning a quick one and done incident into a lethal shootout.
ACAB, always and forever.
The problem is that we think it's okay for police to treat criminals "like criminals". That's a euphemism for a whole lot of fucked up shit. Police owe us all the same professional and dilligent duty of care, whether they personally suspect us of committing a crime or not.
This is stuff you would expect in a third world country.
First world countries are those that are aligned with the USA in the cold war against the USSR. This is exactly what I would expect of a first world country.