Militarization of the police is the issue

Re Case against body cameras for Toronto police

officers, Opinion Oct. 13 All semantics used to describe police conduct and circuitous solutions to remedy a declining situation in all areas of society are costly and ineffective. Even the frugal Fraser Institute questions the validity of the increasing costs in police services.

Police culture, carding, racism, radicalism, are all part and parcel of the militarization of police — an ideology to oppress all members of society under a concocted “security.” It’s a cover up for corporate warfare in all areas of their jurisdiction to justify warfare, divisiveness and exploitation. The police have been turned into soldiers who view the public as either dangerous radicals in war zones or obstacles of the oppressed.

Similarly, Bill C-51 was approved to “protect” the safety and security of Canadians. Could that translate to “protection,” a.k.a. kettling, during the infamous G20 fiasco, a glaring attribute to this pervasive mentality? They have succeeded, to the point of changing public disposition to a faulty reasoning, in allowing inequality to justify their actions either as self-defence or shooting in “good faith.”

The flaws are not with a system, even if the system may create negligence and corruption. The flaws are only the outcome of an expansive ideology that has engulfed society to surreptitiously transform it to an inconsequential being.

Why is the media reluctant to address the core of this problematic issue that has stonewalled change, but only to question apparent solutions ineffectual of inequality and human rights? Lela Gary, Toronto There is one glaring omission from our new police cars: no Canadian flag. Jeff Green, Toronto