Amid stormy waters, Toronto’s police chief drifts away GlobeDebate
Cole Burston/The Canadian PressPlato once said: “When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Saunders struggled right away. Rather than reading the turbulent headwinds and setting out a clear and direct course of bold and long-overdue action, Mr. Saunders committed himself wholeheartedly to a middling don’t-take-any-chances approach to leadership, a sorely out-of-sync mindset that led predictably to missteps.the disgraced police practice of stopping and questioning mostly Black and other racialized people without proper cause. On this important file, Mr.
Then came his ham-fisted performance during the Bruce McArthur homicide investigation. In an incredible display of arrogance, Mr. Saundersfor what he felt was a lack of co-operation with investigators as members of their own community disappeared over the years, a time in which the police declined to even consider the possibility of a serial killer. Mr. McArthur was eventually charged and convicted for his crimes, but Toronto’s top cop was written off by yet another community in the process.
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