Too many holes in this donut!

This follows post

Cop Conviction? Non-Issue!
3 Sep, 2015

1.
I couldn't understand why Constable Drew Turner - although convicted - was still on active duty at the cop-shop. Even if (only?) desk-duty: duty with pay, benefits and probable contact with members of the public there in various capacities.
2.
In the same post I ask why the Nelson Star had not allowed comments from the capital-C Community on its coverage of trial/conviction.

In its 

EDITORIAL: Disgraced cop must go
13 Sep, 2015

the Star - 2 weeks after its conviction report - finally takes a stand on the issue: wanting Turner to get the sack. To be commended - particularly as it also brings up 4 cases of Nelson cops at best very sloppy/at worst out-of-control - between 2008 and 2011: all cops involved getting a bit of boys-will-be- boys tut-tutting in the backroom. We weren't told any of it.

In the same editorial
The police board should adopt a policy where the public is immediately advised when an officer is under investigation - and certainly if a criminal charge is approved.
Common practice out there.

BUT!

While the Nelson Police Board (NPB) claims to be accountable to the Nelson community and its Strategy 2011-2015 planned to increase community awareness: in my memory it has not ever communicated anything to the community. This intention was deleted from its website subsequent to my Committee-of-the-Whole presentation and several blog-posts, raising this point and others, Apr/Jun, 2013. Like: after the boys got Tasers - an additional option on their tool-belt (shades of the Village People) - Chief Holland assured us that there is less risk of injury from them than if officers use their batons or fists to restrain. I raised these issues again extensively in an NPB meeting with

NPD - NPB Accountability
30 Jul, 2013

but received no response then or since.
Sooo...!

Comments on the Star's editorial above are not accepted either. In my memory: these 3 are the only instances ever of the Star not allowing comments. Another Black day in the Community!




A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
                                                  Oscar Wilde