33 Replies to “Sorry”

  1. One homeless drug addled gutter rat looks just like another.

    All this blowing about lawsuits… let’s be honest here…both moms have already mourned their sons, and have just been waiting for that call.

  2. Donna Price, of Dieppe, told CBC last week her family went 13 hours believing her 29-year-old son was dead after being notified by police early on Nov. 22. It was only when she sent someone to her son’s home later that day to collect paperwork for funeral preparations that they discovered “to their shock” her son was alive and well.

    Her son’s home?!?!? I thought the body was a homeless man?

    1. scar,

      I couldn’t agree more.
      It’s the attitude of we must do everything we can to prevent a mistake from happening regardless of the cost.
      In my opinion the cost is too high.
      If I demand ZERO errors from everyone else, I better perform at that level as well and since I can’t, I only ask people do their best.

    2. No, it wasn’t “a mistake”. By the CBC’s own reporting, the detachment didn’t do a single thing to identify the body. They passed the pic around and someone in the wardroom said “oh yeah, that’s so-and-so”.

      That is an absolute, detachment-wide dereliction of duty. You want that same standard applied to no-knock warrants?

    3. Please. RCMP screwed up in the most basic way. Not sure why you want to whitewash that fact.

        1. When you have no accountability you don’t have to bother to do your job, just make sure your masters are pleased.

      1. 100% INCOMPETENT

        I guess these days they don’t have much to choose from

        Slim pickings

  3. In a real country where accountability was a thing, these guys would have lost their jobs already.

    1. yeah everyone who makes a mistake should be fired.
      Especially when the only facts we know are coming from the legacy media.
      Oh and if they take too long to figure out the ID of the bloated corpse they should get fired for that as well.

      Make a mistake get fired.
      That’s a good way to incentivize people to never make a mistake again, by simply doing nothing at all.

      1. Yea, looking at fingerprints, dental records, or waiting for a missing persons report to compare identity is old school racist policing. We need “new” Social policing that relies on gossip and identity politics to classify and prioritize workloads.

      2. Make a mistake such as mid filing something? This is t just any mistake, it’s literally misidentifying a dead person. Mistakes shouldn’t happen at a certain level of importance.

        You misidentify a speeding ticket on photo radar is one thing. But not doing the very basic police work you’re paid do so seems like not employing you any further would be a net improvement to society.

        1. T-Bone, is it not the police’s job to fingerprint or get a relative to positively identify the body?

          It is and they did not do that.

          Paul, that is barely satire.

          Duffman, precisely.

          1. OK

            You’re assuming the deceased’s fingerprints were in a police database.
            I’m going to assume that is not the case for the majority of Canadians.
            Also when someone dies should the family wait the 2-3 days for fingerprints to come back?
            The person who suggested dental records, how does that work?

            If the officer genuinely believed it was the deceased, they would not require the family to view the body.
            A lot of family’s don’t want to go to a morgue.

            Look I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but to call for people to be fired over a single mistake and “detachment-wide dereliction of duty” is over the top.

            I’m gonna guess police in Canada have to do this a hundred times a day in Canada. I’ve never heard of this before. That is a ratio I can live with.
            What I can’t live with is the cost of ZERO mistakes ever.

          2. O K
            Bullshit, the mistake had/has NO real life effects, quite frankly, who gives a schitt, mother nature took out the trash, and cops made a simple mistake. Hell, I encountered my daughter in a store while shopping, and didn’t recognize her, as out of context, and she’ a bluddy identical twin. Mistakes get made, it’s that simple.

    2. you got that right……..
      IF they fired these INCOMPETENT PEOPLE every time the RCMP screwed up big time, there wouldn’t be too many left………

      According to the RCMP themselves, DEPOT is already down 40% in recruitment so they aren’t too choosy on their applicants nowadays I guess…….IF YOU ARE BREATHING YOU GET THE JOB

      1. “IF YOU ARE BREATHING YOU GET THE JOB”

        Not anymore, now they first check if your IQ isn’t too high for the job.

  4. My son is in the Force. When he was in the North he would check places like the banks for the homeless trying to get out of the cold in the ABM area. He’d take them to a warm cell bed for the night and a hot meal come morning . He is a good cop and a good man. I am proud of him. He made a difference for those men. They weren’t unknown to him.

    1. Simco,

      And your son would probably be reasonable and careful with notifying the next of kin.
      Take the fingerprints, take a DNA Sample for certainty in the long term, as you can compare it to parents and siblings.

      Maybe when you show up at the Next of Kin? Ma’am can you identify this person? Someone said he may be your son? When was the last time you talked to your son? Can you get him on the phone?

  5. T-Bone, an unaccountable police force with a history of screwing up and being thugs (pick an incident) failed to do its due diligence.

    I’m past the point of a mere suspension.

    GYM, you wouldn’t recognise a well-written sentence.

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