WestCoastRunner

Aboriginal Man, you say you live on a reservation with your family. Is that correct? If so, why do you continue to live there (what keeps you there)? Have you thought about moving off the reservation and assimilating into the rest of the population (do you see any advantages to this)?

The fact is that obtaining work as a full-time teacher is just as difficult as obtaining work in any other professional position. Applicants to a teacher's college are competing against thousands of other potential students. The more volunteer work, the more courses they have previously taken, the more certificates etc all help them to get accepted. Many folks on this forum make it sound like it's so easy to get accepted and become a full-time teacher. It is not that easy and in the end, the teachers that do obtain full-time teaching positions are very well qualified to teach.

I get that. Hence the federal investigation into the Cleveland Police Force. Apparently, not much in the report was followed. CYA abounded.

I would love to see a task force that takes care of education for First Nations, housing etc. First though, I would like to see where the money is going that the First Nations have access to.

We have a big issue with First Nations no doubt about it.

I get the insurance policies in the U.S. We don't have those issues in Canada. And I hope we don't end up going in that direction.

Nope, not at all.

You seem to have a big problem with canadians discussing your police forces. Why is that?

Should we compare this to a city in Cleveland?

Well, you don't live here.

It isn't easy, no doubt, but the VPD has come a long way in their community policing.

Yes, but we are working on improving the system.

So how do you change the policing status quo? We had to work on it here in Vancouver and now the VPD actually know the folks in DTES neighbourhood. We have a much better community when the cops empathize with the community instead of putting everyone in chokeholds.

Why wouldn't the cops have recognized that he was an unhealthy man and putting him in a chokehold would have compromised his health. We have cops here on the dtes in Vancouver who have better empathy with drug addicts and prostitutes (although, it took a lot of training to get them onboard).

I have a grandchild, and many of my cronies are disgusted with the militaristic police force.

I am not a youtube generation. Get a grip.

That is the problem. big deal!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/08/opinion/cevallos-justice-department-cleveland-police/index.html?hpt=op_t1 The DOJ observed a sign hanging in a district station identifying it as a "forward operating base," which is a military term for an outpost in a war zone. People sympathetic to law enforcement might say "no big deal -- that's part of police culture." To other members of the community and to the Justice Department, this is disturbing evidence of police culture: that CDP is more of an occupying army than a community partner. It failed to provide final dispositions for every civilian complaint, including complaints filed two years ago. It failed to provide Taser firing histories. The report found tactical errors and a failure to follow basic, generally accepted techniques for responding to an armed suspect. In one such case in 2011, officers failed to control the scene, failed to designate locations from which officers could seek cover and contain the threat, failed to use a negotiator, and grouped together with little or no cover. CDP failed to provide dozens of additional Internal Affairs investigations. It failed to provide final dispositions for every civilian complaint, including complaints filed two years ago. It failed to provide Taser firing histories.

Have you seen the results of the Federal investigation in the Cleveland Police incidents. I will post links.

They should be trained to engage with the community.

You may not get this, but some parents are better off at work, contributing to society and letting a daycare provide for their children. Not every parent enjoys staying home, baking cookies, taking kids to lessons, however they still want to have children. That doesn't mean they are bad parents, it just means they are perhaps better parents when the children are beyond the 5 year old range. This is probably hard for many people to grasp. I get that.

This dude was not endangering anyone. He may or may not have been selling loosies. Honestly, are you folks that are defending the cops, agreeing that this man deserved to die. I need more convincing.

I'm not an expert but plenty of legal analysts have expressed the recommendations that he should have been ticketed and the power hungry cops should have carried on with their work day and left him alone. He'd be alive today looking forward to Christmas with his kids, wife, parents and grandkids. Instead, his family is mourning his passing because he chose to stand up to the power hungry cops (after many harrassment attempts on behalf of the cops) and they chose to tackle him. Did they not recognize what kind of shape he was in and not realized that if they tackled him to the ground with a chokehold that it might have had a detrimental affect on his life (everyone knows, just looking at him, he is not a healthy dude). Isn't the police force supposed to be engaging in 'community policing' instead of 'tyranny policing'?

Selling loosies on the street merits a ticket by the police officers. There is absolutely no need to tackle them to ground. Issue a ticket and move on. It was simply a power trip for the local police which resulted in the death of someone committing a misdemeanor.

Absolutely and our culture.