I don't know. I agree to a certain degree that police here, in relative to HK, even compensated for cost of living, etc, that they are over-paid, underwork, faces relatively less risks and stress, but have very poor service quality/attitude/discipline, and for those yet faces very little consequences.
Police here faces no heavy arms (HK do, aka. Jewelry store robbery, bank robbery with automatic weapons). Police here have poor attitude and have a huge ego to carry, leading to tons of police beatings of innocents, which averages to a case a week if you listen to News 1130 everyday like me. The airport taser incident, which led to the death of an innocent tourist, was being brushed off with 0 consequences for the officers involved even though there were plenty of witness and testimonies pointing to the fact that what they did was totally uncalled for and unjust. Yet they didn't get any internal consequences, nor any legal penalties against them... Imagine somethign like this happnening in HK, the police would've been fired before any legal proceeding started.
Heck, I finished watching a movie from Silvercity Riverport Friday night. My gf was driving north on No.6 Rd and a police tailed us at a little distance. It then suddenly flashed it's light. We slowed down to begin to stop. Keep in mind that there's no shoulders on No.6 road where a car can stop without blocking the only 1 lane. The police then took the OPPOSITE lane going at what I'd say about 100km/hr? (We were going 50/60 and that thing just screamed by us). Then after the police passed he just turned the lights off... I don't know what the exact policy here is, but if he's trying to get to a scene, wouldn't he let the lights on continuous? It looks to me it's a case of needing that caffine/donut fix so badly that he abused the lights again. Furthermore, no matter how urgent the case is, driving 100km/hr in residential area, opposite lane and a place as narrow as No.6 is totally uncalled for. There are houses on both sides and ditches in between.... This contrasted with when I was driving on Lougheed highway the same night heading back into Coquitlam. An ambulence had it's lights on probably 2 km behind me. I was driving 70 and it took like 2/3 minutes to get close enough that I pulled over for it to pass. I think it was driving at max 80/90km/hr. And that is on Lougheed highway which people averages 100km/hr usually. With it's lights on constantly, I am sure it was actually trying to arrive to an emergency. Overpaid police driving 100 in a narrow 50km zone for probably getting donuts vs relatively underpaid medical staff driving 90 in a 70km zone for actually arriving at an emergency.... I maybe wrong about this, but it just feels that something is not right here...
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying every cop on our street is bad and abusive. I am saying that not only do we overpay them, but our system here does not facilitate a reaonsably paid and disciplined police force. The lack of check and balance in our system and the little consequences people in power faces when wrong doing is done is ridiculous. If anything, with power comes more responsiblity and if they do mess up they are supposed to face Greater, not less consequences if anything. It's just one facet of this otherwise wonderful city that is very badly managed IMO.
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