This past Thursday morning, January 19th, Charles LeBlanc had eight members of the Fredericton City Police show up at his low-rent apartment. They arrested him and seized his computer equipment, but they refused to charge him with any crime. On the surface, it doesn’t look like much, does it? Just some guy on welfare getting busted by police. He obviously had it coming for … [Read more...]
Update: When cops can’t be bothered to do the jobs they’re paid to do…
On Thursday, in an article titled "When cops can't be bothered to do the jobs they're paid to do, they ask for civilian volunteers?", I wrote about how Fredericton Police Chief Barry MacKnight wanted civilians volunteers to set up and operate speed traps for the Fredericton Police while they do other, unspecified tasks. Naturally, I didn’t think much of the idea, but I’m jus … [Read more...]
When cops can’t be bothered to do the jobs they’re paid to do, they ask for civilian volunteers?
What does the Fredericton Police Force do when it can’t be bothered to do the job the citizens of Fredericton PAY them to do? The go have coffee and ask for civilian volunteers to do the job for them. Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration… I’m sure they aren’t going for coffee, but you get the point, right? Fredericton Police Chief Barry MacKnight, it would seem, has his … [Read more...]