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I was recently at my cottage and was sitting with a bunch of off-duty police officers, one of them female. In Toronto, we recently had a police officer charged with murder for shooting a kid on a streetcar. Shot him something like 8-9 times, with maybe 15-20ft distance from him, the kid wasn't near anyone else - and only had a knife. He was really no threat.
So we were talking about that stuff, etc. This female officer says she's never been discriminated against for being a female, and that they don't treat crimes by officers differently than citizens. She used an example of a DUI, that she'd arrest an officer friend if she pulled him over and he'd been drinking.
She said there is no "old boys club" basically.
Then she says in passing that one time a fellow officer slapped her ass in the locker room, and she just "gave him a look" and didn't "whine to her superiors".. I agreed she should let that pass. But, I said what if I was walking along the street and slapped her in the ass? What would happen? She eventually conceded that she'd arrest me. So I explained that indeed there are double standards, and it is hard for them to speak out against each other. Prime example. She got up and stormed off and didn't return.. I was like wtf? Sensitive subject I guess.
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