Cpl. Peter Leckie pleaded guilty in 2023 to three counts of breach of trust for accessing confidential files unrelated to his policing duties, without authorization.

Officer accessed police databases over 100 times in order to further inappropriate relationships with vulnerable women - including showing up at the home of a 19 year old whose father was just murdered.

    • corsicanguppyEnglish
      310·
      3 months ago

      I wish I had your crystal ball. I only know a dozen cops - only 2 in my family as we’re mainly infantry - and they seem to unanimously not be dicks. Stressed and wary, but not dicks.

      What you must have suffered personally, I can’t imagine. Clearly.

      • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Even if only 5% of cops are dicks, that’s way too many for people in a position of power. Ask the two in your family what they did the last time they saw a fellow officer pulling some kind of icky crap (this, racism against someone Indigenous, whatever). Maybe they’re genuinely good people and called their fellow cops out, I don’t know. If not, I’m sorry to say that they’re part of the problem.

        People involved in law enforcement have a higher obligation than the average citizen to follow the rules, except where specific affordances are made for them so that they can do their jobs. This is not one of those places.

      • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        I’m not a fool and I don’t have a short memory. I was at the Toronto G20 and I remember how Canadian police behaved that day. Thousands of cops from all over Canada got together and became monsters together