Reading the Herald, a few articles of interest - Cop accused of assaulting wife claims to be "Mentally Ill" - Nice, but we knew that when you wanted to become a cop. Don't buy it for a second. The three cops accused of kidnapping and beating up a suspect, the force springs to their defense with: "All fine, upstanding officers", the cop who was too lazy to check in the drugs he'd been seizing and took them home instead...
All this on one police force for a relatively small town. Really? Really people? Is anyone safer because the police are around? Probably not.
But the follow up to the shooting last year of the wealthy Calgary real estate "developer" was the most intriguing. Obviously a targeted attack, and reasonably well executed (I mean, he lived, but not for lack of trying). Asking around at the old restaurant - lots of people knew him, had a reputation for fucking people over for large sums of money, no shortage of possible suspects. The article explains that a group entitled "Friends of ..." had raised a $250, 000. reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible. Unbelievable. Your kid goes missing, disappears, you're lucky if the cops take a statement that same month. Take a shot at a dodgy real-estate developer and there's a quarter million dollar bounty on your head. The world is upside-down. Seriously.
And the image of "evidence" they provide is even more telling:
(Bullet Damaged Titanium American Express Card)
This photograph is a work of genius. This wasn't just another attack on a shitty person that could comfortably go uninvestigated and unsolved, this was an attack on their every shitty sacred ambition, the Titanium American Express Card, the Rolls' Royce, the house in Mount Royal....You can bet they won't rest until they find the culprit.