Cops and Victims
The public altogether has a rather robust idea of the way in which police authorities conduct their business in protecting the best interests of society. We should know, after all, we've had the business of policing thrown at us front and centre for a good many years through action films and avidly-viewed television series that everyone seems to adore watching.
Of course art copies life, and then of course life turns things around and copies the art of the possible. Extremes become a fact of life and violence its essence. Thus we have stories in the newspapers relating how police squads have from time to time violently erupted into a dwelling where suspected drug trafficking is taking place and oh dear, some old granny whose home it happens to be is killed in the general melee.
Whoops, wrong apartment. It needn't be an old woman involved, and most frequently isn't. Sometimes it's the wrong address, sometimes it's the right address but the wrong intelligence. And most often intelligence is just simply absent. Nice to know that an affronted public while content to watch imaginary drug busts on television shows thinks their police in real life should not emulate art.
That because of the really bad press police have been garnering for offing innocent people in the pursuit of law and order, they're now re-thinking their methodologies. So adrenaline and testosterone have been placed on the back burner - not too far since sometimes they're still called upon - but responsible police work is back in style.
Still, it sometimes takes a while before these reconstructed techniques make their way to the back and beyond. And since Canadian forces often look to their big brothers to the south for guidance, it would seem that some Canadian police forces haven't yet caught up to those in the U.S. Take, for example, the recent event in Brossard, Quebec where police stormed into a private home late at night.
A 'surprise' raid it most certainly was. On a suspected drug trafficker. Who just happens to be a family man with several young children, all of whom were fast asleep as most normal families are, in the wee hours. The family was rudely brought out of the comfort of sleep by the sound of their front door being crashed in. The man of the house, needless to say, thought first it was a home invasion, in reflection of many which had occurred in the neighbourhood.
He sought his legally registered firearm in defence of his family (albeit illegally loaded) and a gunfight ensued. His wife was critically shot in the uproar, one of his children made a panic call for help, dialling 911 in the next room. All the while the father was exchanging gunfire with the armed intruders. And then shot one. Fatally.
This kind of police drama is called a "dynamic entrance" and that it most certainly was. Who might suspect, living in a suburban family home with their children that police might have a a reason to think they are doing something illegal and as a result would plan to invade the sanctity of their family home at a time when people are generally fast asleep?
No charges have been laid against the home owner, Basile Parasiris, for drug possession, evidence of ill-gotten gains, not even for unlawful firearms storage. Leading one to the conclusion that there was no reason to do so for no evidence of any such was discovered in the course of the raid and its after-conclusion.
But Mr. Parasiris is now in prison and will stand to be charged in the death of Constable Daniel Tessier, the Laval police officer shot dead as a result of his tactical squad's decision to invade a family's home.
Of course art copies life, and then of course life turns things around and copies the art of the possible. Extremes become a fact of life and violence its essence. Thus we have stories in the newspapers relating how police squads have from time to time violently erupted into a dwelling where suspected drug trafficking is taking place and oh dear, some old granny whose home it happens to be is killed in the general melee.
Whoops, wrong apartment. It needn't be an old woman involved, and most frequently isn't. Sometimes it's the wrong address, sometimes it's the right address but the wrong intelligence. And most often intelligence is just simply absent. Nice to know that an affronted public while content to watch imaginary drug busts on television shows thinks their police in real life should not emulate art.
That because of the really bad press police have been garnering for offing innocent people in the pursuit of law and order, they're now re-thinking their methodologies. So adrenaline and testosterone have been placed on the back burner - not too far since sometimes they're still called upon - but responsible police work is back in style.
Still, it sometimes takes a while before these reconstructed techniques make their way to the back and beyond. And since Canadian forces often look to their big brothers to the south for guidance, it would seem that some Canadian police forces haven't yet caught up to those in the U.S. Take, for example, the recent event in Brossard, Quebec where police stormed into a private home late at night.
A 'surprise' raid it most certainly was. On a suspected drug trafficker. Who just happens to be a family man with several young children, all of whom were fast asleep as most normal families are, in the wee hours. The family was rudely brought out of the comfort of sleep by the sound of their front door being crashed in. The man of the house, needless to say, thought first it was a home invasion, in reflection of many which had occurred in the neighbourhood.
He sought his legally registered firearm in defence of his family (albeit illegally loaded) and a gunfight ensued. His wife was critically shot in the uproar, one of his children made a panic call for help, dialling 911 in the next room. All the while the father was exchanging gunfire with the armed intruders. And then shot one. Fatally.
This kind of police drama is called a "dynamic entrance" and that it most certainly was. Who might suspect, living in a suburban family home with their children that police might have a a reason to think they are doing something illegal and as a result would plan to invade the sanctity of their family home at a time when people are generally fast asleep?
No charges have been laid against the home owner, Basile Parasiris, for drug possession, evidence of ill-gotten gains, not even for unlawful firearms storage. Leading one to the conclusion that there was no reason to do so for no evidence of any such was discovered in the course of the raid and its after-conclusion.
But Mr. Parasiris is now in prison and will stand to be charged in the death of Constable Daniel Tessier, the Laval police officer shot dead as a result of his tactical squad's decision to invade a family's home.
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