North Vancouver police officer charged with assault after excessive force complaint:

http://www.vancouversun.com/North+Vancouver+police+officer+charged+with+assault+after+excessive/3888723/story.html

Vancouver Sun November 26, 2010 8:05 AM

A North Vancouver police officer is accused of using excessive force during an arrest in June and is charged with assault as a result; the arrest took place on June 18^th, 2010 upon a liquor act investigation on lower Lonsdale and the complaint was filed on June 21^st, 2010.

In fact, this article is a good example of the fact that power often tends to corrupt people and the person who is in power often tends to abuse people as authority brings along confidence. However, I believe that one’s morals must hinder him/her from abusing the others through their power, although people’s morals differ extensively from one another.

Moreover, I believe that if I was in the arrested man’s shoes, I would have done the same thing as he did and filed a complaint against the abusive police officer in order to maintain consistency in the law and prevent people with authority from abusing their power. Furthermore, having read this article I really hope that the complaint against the police officer is properly considered and appropriate punishment be faced by the police officer.

Most importantly, I really hope to not hear any of these types of stories again as we live in a rich country where human rights must matter the most and must be upheld by everyone, even the police; therefore, we must maintain our good reputation in the world and not allow controversial stories to come up and ruin this prestigious reputation.