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Servamus – Fearing the Image of the Vancouver Police

Drivers – non-criminal citizens from whom the police derive their power – are having their fear of being ticketed isolated, transformed into a fear of the police, and capitalized upon to drive a policy goal that in and of itself should never pass Section 1 muster.
Could the momentum of enshrining the police vs. citizens paradigm lead to the political annihilation of servamus? In other words, could the potential transformative effects on society of engendering a public fear of police be out of proportion with traffic safety objectives? Continue reading

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