Faisal Joseph CIC Legal Titan back in the news
Keep an eye on this one, Faisal is taking the London police department to the cleaners Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
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I saw that this morning in the paper here. This ought to be good. What gets me is the guy wants his job back. If his colleagues are such blatant racists, why would he want to return to work in such an environment? Maybe his fellow officers don't like him because he's such a whiny pussy.
Something about the case isn't sitting right with me. He's been a London cop for 10 years. He wants his job back so he can "continue to provide for his family".
My question: Why did he spend the night in a hotel when he was off-duty? Why wasn't he home with his family? Don't they live in London?
Maybe there's a reasonable explanation, but it just strikes me as a little odd.
If the police officer had NOT investigated the report from the hotel clerk, he would have been derelict in his duty.
But, after reading this post I immediately suffered from nervous shock, emotional upset, depression, frustration, fixation, increased anxiety, depression and paranoia.
I think it should be grounds for dismissal from the police force if you start acting like a victim monger about "racial profiling". This is very destructive to policing. But our society, always in need of a black-hatted "evil" to scapegoat ("the profiler"), is in the midst of a widespread denial of a necessary reality. If the "race" or description of a person, in a certain situation, raises reasonable - not proven - suspicions, it is the job of the police to take note and watch. If, for example, middle-class-looking white kids have been buying drugs in a non-white or non-middle-class neighborhood, then you watch white middle-class kids in that neighborhood.
Are we to take seriously the apparent claim that the police should have known the hotel clerk couldn't confuse Pakistani and Middle Eastern?
And besides, it seems to me you can't be a viable cop if you are unwilling to take the heat when it is directed at you and would prefer istead to put the police force on trial. Cops have to bow down to the needs of the group; if cops can't trust each other to be ready to back each other in dangerous situations, if they can't trust each other not to make accusations of illegality over just any resented conducted, then policing will fall apart. We can't let cops put other cops on trial for every perceived slight or dubious practise performed in police work or we won't have effective policing. The OHRC is once again a disgrace.
But then, by the same token, doesn't this cop who has had the finger pointed at him by other cops have a legitimate beef? Maybe, but if his attempts to deal with it internally by the police chiefs and internal affairs investigators have been rebuffed, then it seems to me he should have accepted that his only acceptable choice was a tough one. Either this "victim" should have toughed it out and ended his grievance, or he should have sued only after leaving the force.
I might add that a society that allows its police forces to be put on trial by jumped-up kangaroo courts filled by political-religious ideologues doesn't deserve to have police to call when the SHTF. If we can't trust police to know how to police each other, to be the best judges of police ethics, with only occasional instances where we fire clearly incompetent police leaders, then we don't deserve people facing down real danger to protect us. THe cops in London, hell all over Ontario, should go on a wildcat strike.
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