Any attempt at even the smallest accountability and the police unions basically threaten the citizens "Oh if we can't do thing X or are held accountable for thing Y, we won't be able to help you because we'll be scared of getting trouble". It's like a protection racket. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-police-officer-guilty-1.6691710
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and in Quebec, the politicians are either in thrawl, or interested in looking tough on crime or scared of the "union" so they either play along or make it worse. It's.. I'm tired of it and I don't understand. A million years ago a prof said to me "complex problems require complex solutions" and yet we keep doing the same idiotic, simplistic things and expect that THIS TIME it will work.