Rob Ford's Toronto

[Kat_YYZ]

It's very heartwarming to see Mr. Starkovski (aka Muzik's big gun, aka Rob's good bud) support victim services, with the blessing of TPS...

http://www.chiefsgala.com/#about

Unreal. I said it after the Muzik shooting: cops are in bed with this guy.

 

[zang]

Didn't he float the idea of halving the number of councillors and wards before being elected to his first term, only to never mention it again? I don't recall him saying anything at all about how the new wards would be defined, how much it would cost to reorganize everything, hold new elections, etc.

It would involve re-districting. And proper re districting would mean population evaluations, and population evaluations mean that the suburbs lose power. Fewer politicians likely to horse-trade with him means shooting himself in the foot.

 

[Jimmi T]

Unreal. I said it after the Muzik shooting: cops are in bed with this guy.

Weren't a bunch of cops found to be taking bribes from club owners fairly recently? One was related to the police union boss I believe.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Unreal. I said it after the Muzik shooting: cops are in bed with this guy.

Clearly, it has never occurred to them the matter of optics, not to mention potential conflict of interest.

AoD

 

[the lemur]

View attachment 53672 http://www.decolabels.com/products.htm

Maybe it's not part of their everyday production, but they're clearly able to produce something like this:

https://nowtoronto.com/news/think-f...hose-ford-produced-flag-day-signs-being-hung/

... with their trademark flair for graphic design.

 

[animatronic]

It would involve re-districting. And proper re districting would mean population evaluations, and population evaluations mean that the suburbs lose power. Fewer politicians likely to horse-trade with him means shooting himself in the foot.

It wasn't that fancy. Wards used to be defined by splitting the federal ridings in half. Ford's plan was to go to a 1:1 mapping.

 

[animatronic]

IIRC Deco is one of the city's largest printers of election signs. Can't find the article but they boasted that they even do the printing for non-Ford supporters. Doolittle wrote about how they got into politics via sign printing in Crazy Town.

 

[riffraff]

Crime Scene Coverage Suffers as Police Scanners Go Dark
http://canadalandshow.com/article/crime-scene-coverage-suffers-police-scanners-go-dark

Hence, for Muzik shooting we don't have the names of the 3 injured "victims", or how many shooters there were, but po-lice tell us "We need the public to come forward with any info. photos or videos they may have".

Meanwhile Starkovski gets a quick whitewash (and in the back of my mind Aretha's asking the question: Who's Zoomin' Who?).

 

[riffraff]

I got bored yesterday and started poking around the TED Talks videos and found a 2004 presentation by Steven Levitt, "The Freakonomics of Crack Dealing" talking about the career prospects of marginalized youth. This would be great for the Grade 7 curriculum for social studies, math, or phys ed.

 

[JWBF]

Trump International? (Hey, even Jonathan Goldsbie can claim to have "worked for Trump")

Stool Groom.

 

[evvabeing]

Weren't a bunch of cops found to be taking bribes from club owners fairly recently? One was related to the police union boss I believe.

William McCormack Jr., the son of a former Toronto Police chief, and Rick McIntosh, a former president of the Toronto Police Association, walked out of Superior Court free men on Tuesday after a prosecutor admitted there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.
[...]
The men were charged in May of 2004 with breach of trust and obstructing justice offences for allegedly taking bribes from nightclub owners in Toronto's entertainment district in exchange for either help obtaining liquor licences or getting police protection.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/03/14912916.html

and...

John Schertzer, Steven Correia, Ned Maodus, Joseph Miched and Raymond Pollard faced multiple charges based on allegations they conducted searches without warrants, falsified notes to hide those alleged facts and allegedly didn’t account for all of the money seized in drug investigations. They also faced extortion and assault allegations.

The case faced numerous delays.

Charges were laid in 2004, but stayed in 2008, when it appeared a trial wouldn’t be completed in a timely manner. Ontario’s Court of Appeal then ordered a new trial, saying the delays in the case were not unreasonable.

That decision was taken up to the Supreme Court of Canada, which declined to hear an appeal of the ruling, paving the way for the trial to go ahead.

The five officers were all eventually convicted in 2012 of attempting to obstruct justice. Three of them – Pollard, Maodus and Correia – were also convicted of perjury.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-officers-in-corruption-case/article24036297/

Joyce Schertzer, his third and current wife and a promising detective on the Toronto police homicide squad, would stand by him through the many years of scrutiny and accusation. When her schedule allowed, she would be in court by his side.
[...]
Having retired in 2007, Schertzer spends his time overseeing a trendy restaurant he owns on Queen St. W. He lives in Etobicoke.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/29/saga_of_a_toronto_police_drug_squad.html

 

[evvabeing]

Maybe it's not part of their everyday production, but they're clearly able to produce something like this:

https://nowtoronto.com/news/think-f...hose-ford-produced-flag-day-signs-being-hung/

... with their trademark flair for graphic design.

it might fall under 'promotional material'...

 

[evvabeing]

http://iconosquare.com/p/1061376434497979127_2082858647

 

[the lemur]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/29/saga_of_a_toronto_police_drug_squad.html

Having retired in 2007, Schertzer spends his time overseeing a trendy restaurant he owns on Queen St. W. He lives in Etobicoke.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/18/ex-toronto-police-drug-squad-boss-faces-drug-rap

 

[evvabeing]

since we're on police corruption...

No wonder many in the legal community believe Peel is the wild west of policing — where the cowboys are running the show.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/22/judges-have-had-issues-with-peel-police-before

Rob Ford calls Peel police on trailing media
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/02/rob-ford-calls-peel-police-on-trailing-media

https://twitter.com/thetorontosun/status/506945798329077760

http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3139754-police-gear-up-for-back-to-school-blitz/

Toronto Star released a story that described the misuse of these "proceeds of crime" victims funds, where the Peel Police Board was purchasing tens of thousands of dollars worth of tickets to various Swanky Mayoral Galas, not only implicating the Peel Police in almost corrupt victims funds misuse, but also the Mayor of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion (who is no stranger to allegations of corruption), and also the former Mayor of Brampton, Susan Fennell, both who have sat on these Police Boards while these spending travesties occurred.

The Peel Police Board is not alone in this corrupt spending of crime victims' funds, as the Toronto Police Board has been guilty of exactly the same. Back in December, the Toronto Sun's Joe Warmington reported that the Toronto Police Board approved spending victims of crime funds on $600,000 for a Police Christmas Party, $9,000 on a cricket pitch upgrade, $21,000 for fitness equipment and other disgraceful usages.

http://jackandcokewithalime.blogspot.com/2011/03/toronto-peel-police-boards-misusing.html

Canadian corruption hit all new heights last week as three officers from Toronto, Ontario posted $15,000 bail after being arrested for gang raping a parking enforcement officer in a hotel room — in downtown Toronto.

The officers are still out on bail and haven’t made any comments.

According to the Toronto Sun, Joshua Cabero (28), Leslie Nyznik (38), and Sameer Kara (31) are barred from drinking, they can’t go to work, they can’t contact any of the 20 potential witnesses — plus the alleged victim — they’re banned from three clubs, and they aren’t allowed to handle any firearms.
[...]
Not surprisingly, in 2013 Leslie Nyznik — one of the accused — was the main player in the covering of a severe beating of a chef by Toronto officer Christian Dobbs. The judge who presided over the trial was quoted to call Nyznik’s unstable testimony “incredulous.”

What’s more, the officers will now be applying to have their legal bills paid for by the Toronto Police Association, so not only will the citizens of Toronto have to pay their salary, but they’ll also have to pay the vast amounts of money to their legal team to defend their actions.

In a city that was run for years by a known gang affiliated crackhead, should we really be surprised the police are just as dirty? We would have to be fools.

https://cut2thetruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/toronto-police-gang-rape-officers-out-on-bail/

The accused are also banned from attending three downtown bars, including The Brass Rail and are also prohibited from possessing weapons.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/02/19/3-toronto-cops-charged-in-gang-sex-assault

Bail conditions are that they can’t possess or drink alcohol, they can’t contact alleged victim or long list of witnesses, they can’t go to 51 Division, they can’t go to the Westin Harbour Castle or the parking enforcement east office or the bars that attended the night of the alleged incident.

http://www.citynews.ca/2015/02/19/3...harged-with-sex-assault-and-gang-sex-assault/

They can’t go to CC Lounge on Front St., Pravda Vodka House on Wellington St., or The Brass Rail on Yonge St. The Westin Harbour Castle is also off limits and no alcohol or firearms.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/02/19/tough-day-for-toronto-police