The increasing number of police brutality cases is hurting the image of police services in both Canada and the U.S.
That from Chatham-Kent Police Service Chief Dennis Poole. But Poole believes the increased number of instances of police brutality in the U.S. boils down to one thing. "Our officers in Canada and certainly here in Ontario and in Chatham-Kent are very well trained," says Poole. "They requalify a couple times a year, they undergo the same consistent training throughout the province and I think a lot of those issues in the U.S. boil down to that type of investment in training."
On Saturday, an officer in South Carolina shot and killed an unarmed black man and was charged with murder after the incident was caught on a cell phone by a witness. It comes on the heels of other high profile instances of officers using deadly force in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
Last July, an 18-year-old black man holding a knife on an empty Toronto street car was shot and killed, with the officer now facing a second degree murder charge.
