{"id":15866,"date":"2021-04-23T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:25:56","slug":"quotable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15866","title":{"rendered":"quotable&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.15.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15870\" width=\"1000\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.15.24-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.15.24-PM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.15.24-PM-768x535.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;If body cameras are necessary to curb police violence, then it\u2019s because police department can\u2019t properly control its officers. If more control measures are necessary, the funding for those measures should come out of the existing police budget, and not from increasing the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we lived in a world where bad behaviour actually had consequences, this might play out differently. Imagine if every time a cop improperly stopped a black person, the department budget was dinged a million dollars; if every time someone died in police custody, the budget was cut by 25%, and so on. You could bet that&nbsp;<em>then<\/em>&nbsp;the police brass would figure out how to control their officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halifax Examiner APRIL 23, 2021&nbsp;BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/author\/tim-bousquet\/\">TIM BOUSQUET<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-quotable-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15874\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-quotable-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-quotable-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Court-Painter-quotable-1-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&#8220;If body cameras are necessary to curb police violence, then it\u2019s because police department can\u2019t properly control its officers. If more control measures are necessary, the funding for those measures should come out of the existing police budget, and not from increasing the budget. 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