LIBRA AGENDA - CLASS ACTION PETITION TO REPEAL TORONTO POLICE SERVICES ACT SECTIONS
A summary of my personal critique of Ontario's Police Services Act focuses on such items within it that would amend the act in significant modifications and repealing those segments outlined below with reference to the Act’s Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part IX.
Police Services Act, RSO 1990, c. P.15 - Ontario.ca
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p15
Namely, under the LIBRA AGENDA, there are 4 key points that a court process could enact;
The petition for the suggested systemic changes review is at;
http://chng.it/W9vGG8gY
1. Public observers should be immersed in processes where monitoring activities of officials can be deemed applicable so that citizens have transparency, trust, and education in a first-hand overview of services they pay for. Such procedures for civilian observation should include; Police Training, SIU Investigations, Police Board meetings, Internal complaints processes using offices of Ministers, Commissioners, Complaint Director.
2. Regarding Police Budgets; given the tainted and spendthrift habits of Toronto Council, the public should be fully acquainted with precise police expenditures pertaining to value for dollars spent. Specifically, throwing out ball-park figures for costs is a corrupted act of misconduct. Police costs must be detailed and given opportunity for the public to closely scrutinize and compare costs on the market or in the industry. For example; Montreal has the same number of cops-to-civilians per capita as Toronto running a city slightly smaller in size and population, yet Montreal's policing budget for 2019 was $662 million – compare this to the ludicrous doubled amount of $1.2 billion proposed for the 2020 Toronto policing budget. The recent June 2020 request for a 10% reduction to and by the Maverick politicians seeking to defund was a very achievable request. But the Mayor and a majority of councillors with no ethical compulsions willfully appeased and exceeded to the bloated budget farce. Defunding police does not mean cutting back on personnel; rather, Toronto's over-spent salaries on policing should be drastically pulled back.
3. Police Accountability should stipulate an 'anti-Rambo-Rogue Cop' definition; pertaining to the befitting drastic actions that can be officially leveraged against their activities which may endanger public safety and/or harm Police Force Integrity. Measures should allow 'Good Cops' to immediately arrest rambo-rogue cops engaged in criminal acts; ie, a rambo-rogue cop assaulting a civilian should be immediately detained AND arrested for perpetrating criminal activity. This should be mandated into police training. Any members in Police Service engaged in actions to protect Rambo-Rogue cops should be immediately held accountable and prosecuted for interfering with an investigation. Regarding the clause on police members not taking part in political activity, there should be specific pointed reference that belonging to extremist hate groups is a political activity to which the severest consequences should be immediately applied; namely, being fired from the job.
4. Police Trainers should be monitored on the job, either directly or covertly. If they are proven to be engaged in training officers to engage the public with an excessive force bias, they should be immediately reassigned. The same holds true if trainers can not provide basic de-escalation tactics to those being trained. Police training should be at least 2 years in duration rather than the current 24-week fast-track process. German municipal cops have 2 year training regimes to put out professional competent reliable public policing.
