{"id":6400,"date":"2010-11-16T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2010-11-16T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:17:33","slug":"helpless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/helpless\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Helpless<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/11\/16\/christie-blatchford-if-the-suspect-wasnt-white-the-police-learned-to-just-walk-away\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> is publishing some exerpts from Christie Blatchford&#8217;s latest book, <em>Helpless<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But now, occupiers were showing up in force, at least a dozen of them converging on the lone OPP officer, who had already determined that the driver had no licence, no permit and no insurance &mdash; oh, and that the car had no plates. He called for backup, a plea that, in the normal course of events in the policing world, usually brings an enormous, instantaneous, gut-level response: Every cop who can get there does.<\/p>\n<p>No one arrived.<\/p>\n<p>In what was probably the single most important early indicator of how the OPP was disintegrating from within, its officers were no longer answering a call for help from one of their own. The constable had been left to fend for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Furious, heartsick, he did what he could &mdash; cautioned the driver &mdash; and left before things got ugly. Back at the station, he filed a formal complaint. Within a matter of weeks, he was verbally disciplined for having created a possible \u201cflashpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a sign of things to come. The occupation was just a month old, and whenever OPP officers dared speak up about the way things were going, they were slapped down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Post is publishing some exerpts from Christie Blatchford&#8217;s latest book, Helpless: But now, occupiers were showing up in force, at least a dozen of them converging on the lone OPP officer, who had already determined that the driver had no licence, no permit and no insurance &mdash; oh, and that the car had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8,6,9,10],"tags":[637,438,87,98,351],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","tag-caledonia","tag-firstnations","tag-ontario","tag-police","tag-politicalcorrectness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2hpV6-helpless","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}