Thread: Chief Bryan Larkin is scheduled to speak at the @CAPG_ACGP Canadian Assoc of Police Governance conference next week.
We have concerns about his role in upholding and protecting systemic and institutionalized sexual violence and discrimination as a police Chief. 1/6
So, we wrote the organizers the following: 2/6
They responded with this: 3/6
Which led to our response here: 4/6
If we want and expect change in policing, how the public are policed, then we must make the change happen.
“Because we’ve always done it this way,”
“it’s not my responsibility” and “Because he said so”
are not acceptable excuses for maintaining destructive power systems. 5/6
@CAPG_ACGP by choosing Chief Larkin as your speaker, you are sanctioning his conduct.
I think it’s time for the truth to come out... dirty secrets are not my burden to carry.
I’ll start by saying up until a few years ago, I was fully indoctrinated into toxic police culture. I fully bought into it. If I heard anything like my story I wouldn’t believe it. I’d hold popular opinion that she’s crazy/incompetent/vindictive/lying/slutty and a bitch.