VANCOUVER — Corporal Jim Brown has worked from the RCMP’s Coquitlam detachment for decades. He played a small but important role in the Mounties’ investigation of Robert (Willie) Pickton, the serial killer who murdered women and disposed of their bodies on a pig farm just a few kilometres from the same Coquitlam detachment.
Cpl. Brown had an alter ego: A boot-wearing, knife-wielding sadomasochist. In a shocking story published Thursday, Vancouver Sun columnist Ian Mulgrew described several photographs made available for public viewing on Internet websites catering to bondage and sadomasochism enthusiasts. There is Cpl. Brown, “posing in sexually explicit torture images reminiscent of [Pickton’s] crimes.”
The veteran Mountie “appears to wear only his regulation-issue Mountie boots and an erection as he wields a huge knife and a bound naked woman cringes in terror,” writes Mr. Mulgrew, referring to just some of the photos in existence. The Mountie is also depicted grappling with the naked woman, and slashing at her with his knife.
[More]
See Also:
Missing Women Commissioner wants answers to RCMP officer’s sexually explicit photos
I’m in touch with a retired RCMP officer and I noted in an e-mail to him last night that it greatly distresses me to link this kind of “stuff” regarding a police force I greatly respect.
He replied this morning and feels the same but also feels that I need to link these stories. And so he encourages me. Here’s why.
At the very root of an officers authority is “believability”. What he or she says on the stand can be taken as a “given” as they understand things. A judge or a jury will make the final decision but in all cases an officers credibility is at the heart of things and so it is important to a police officer to never be found in a bar, passed out on a table (piss drunk) or hobnobbing with bikers “on their own time”.
This type of situation should never be tolerated because it can come back to haunt them, as we see. Police officers are held to a far higher standard by the public and rightly so. This is as it should be.
This officer has brought his fellow officers into “disrepute” simply because he wears the uniform and that is all the public normally sees. All are tarred with the same brush. Perhaps “not fair” but that is what the job is and if I were a faithful serving “Horseman” this day I would be livid. Because this clown just caused them a huge problem…and perhaps very unfairly — this officer also (coolest cop ever).
Never put a foot wrong. But he will wear the pain.
Not right I know but that’s just the way things are this day as the media moves in for the”kill”. They should be ashamed and the RCMP needs to deal ruthlessly with officers who do this stuff.
“Poof” — you’re gone. Immediately.
There are far to many fine RCMP officers who work everyday and do their very best. I see no reason not to support them, vicious as the penalty may be for the “layabouts”. I would fire them all if they cross the line and that penalty should be “instantaneous”. The new commissioner should have that power and be permitted to delegate it to regional subordinates. RCMP discipline would return rapidly.
“Nuff said.”
….. and just exactly what would be wrong with a member “hobnobbing” with folk like me during his or her free time Jack?
If you can’t see what I’m getting at I can’t help you, stage. I can assure you though that a superior court judge once agreed with me completely when I went ballistic on the stand one day over unseemly off duty police behaviour.
I was not a happy camper when I found myself dragged into something which should never have occurred and didn’t hide it. My view is that police officers are role models for society. Most are aware — some “not so much”.
And by the way — I would have a beer with you anytime. Just so you know.
I can see what you’re getting at Jack, and I even agree with that point – I’m taking issue with your choice of words.
I am a biker and I’m dam*ned proud of what bikers do for our communities and the (literally) thousands of causes and charities we support.
If I could offer a suggestion – next time use the word “criminal”, “gang member” or “1%’er”.
Re: “I am a biker and I’m dam*ned proud of what bikers do for our communities and the (literally) thousands of causes and charities we support.”
Then you’re in good company.
Take care…