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1. (Thread) Let’s talk about Adrian Woolley, President of the Peel Regional Police Association.
As the head of Ontario’s third largest police union, @PRPA_Prez’s record, and his approach to criminal justice, demonstrates a systemic failure at @PeelPolice more broadly.
As the head of Ontario’s third largest police union, @PRPA_Prez’s record, and his approach to criminal justice, demonstrates a systemic failure at @PeelPolice more broadly.
2. Let’s start at the beginning.
Peel Region Police officers are fine with having a convicted felon as their President.
Woolley pleaded guilty to drinking and driving - last year.
The story is from February of this year.
Peel Region Police officers are fine with having a convicted felon as their President.
Woolley pleaded guilty to drinking and driving - last year.
The story is from February of this year.
3. What does it say when someone in a such a role - over a police association no less - is guilty of breaking the law, and doesn’t have the conviction to step aside?
He was driving 174 km/h on the QEW while drunk.
He could have killed someone.
Slap on the wrist = 3000 fine.
He was driving 174 km/h on the QEW while drunk.
He could have killed someone.
Slap on the wrist = 3000 fine.
1- This thread is long, but I encourage you to read it if you're going to comment.
A father of four in Mississauga was shot dead by police when one of his children called the non-emergency number to ask for help for his mentally-ill father.
#JusticeForEjaz #PoliceReform
A father of four in Mississauga was shot dead by police when one of his children called the non-emergency number to ask for help for his mentally-ill father.
#JusticeForEjaz #PoliceReform
2- The police was already told he did not speak English and the man was not in danger to anyone else.
I am not going to talk about that specific incident, but after weeks of debating whether I should write this or not, I am going to share my personal experience.
I am not going to talk about that specific incident, but after weeks of debating whether I should write this or not, I am going to share my personal experience.
3- Like many visible minority teenagers, I've been carded a few times (mostly by the Peel Police) in my teen years. What people miss about that experience is this: it creates a fear and distrust of police.
