When the cops won't do it.. . When the courts won't do it. . . When the lawyers won't do it. . . Who ya gonna call?
Drugs and Saskatchewan: if these cases don't put the administration of justice into disrepute, what will? On this page: Operations Flotilla and Patience | Morin case | Operation Margaret in Estevan | Grant Krieger story | Leland Dosch case: Mark Brayford says small-time cultivators are getting more time than child molesters. See also Pot, Cocaine-Banemex-NarcoNews Defamation story | Brothers of the Church of the Universe sue Cadillac-Fairview Mall | General map to drug stories on injusticebusters So how does the money that the cops pay to the rats get taxed? Are they told it is "free money?" Like winning the lottery? Did Shannon Gursky report to Revenue Canada the $7000 she stated in open court that she had been paid? And what about the informant in the Morin case? Is his name kept safe from the taxman? Do Babs and the other handlers send out T4 slips to their agents? Just how the heck does this system work? -- Sheila Steele Sgt. Brian Dueck who is now high in Narcotics in Saskatoon is no stranger to manufacturing cases. He is a prime example of how dishonest policing in drugs has spread to many other areas of social life. Dueck has received some publicity about Ritalin, a serious problem which was completely manufactured by unscrupulous drug companies, lazy parents and teachers, and unscrupulous shrinks and social workers. Attention Deficit Syndrome? Give us a break. If the kid isn't paying attention, it is probably because you are boring! (Sgt. Dueck is now Superintendent Dueck and he is in charge of drugs for the whole city of Saskatoon -- June, 2001)
Proud Saskatchewan People who stood up against the dirty war conducted by Narcotics Police, the Federal Crown and Saskatchewan courts Grant Krieger: Victorious fighter for legal medical marijuana (we have moved this story to a special page honouring him)
So -- when is Canada going to wise up and legalize marijuana?
WAR ON MARIJUANA WASTE OF TIME, MONEY - CRITICS REGINA (CP) -15 Mar 1999- For months, RCMP officers had a secret window into Leland Dosch's life. They taped his family's phone calls, studied his daily routine - even broke into his home and planted listening devices. Then, in a carefully planned manoeuvre, they raided his rural Saskatchewan farmhouse and arrested him as a suspected drug trafficker. It was hailed as the successful climax to a long, painstaking investigation - - another victory for the good guys in the war on drugs. But after the intense surveillance, thousands of taped conversations, and countless hours on the job, what did police have to show for their Herculean efforts? Thirty immature marijuana plants and less than a kilogram of pot. The Dosch case and others like it have some experts questioning the wisdom of devoting so much time and money to battle a drug that many people regard as harmless and millions of Canadians use. And with the latest statistics showing marijuana accounting for 72 per cent of all drug offences, some suggest it's time to back off. "There's nothing more costly than a drug case for Canadian criminal justice," said Alan Young, a professor at Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto. "When you get to drugs, you find that the cost of enforcing these laws is extraordinary and, in my opinion, it saps the criminal justice system of necessary resources to deal with serious predatory crime." Young estimates authorities across the country spend $1 billion a year to battle the drug trade - 70 per cent of that on marijuana. "People have to start wondering whether this is money well spent," he said. It's not just the cost that bothers Young, it's the consequences for civil liberty. "There are enormous invasions of privacy in the name of intelligence gathering," Young said. "You often come up with diddly-squat and what you have effectively done is invade the privacy of dozens of people at dozens of locations in order to find out that Joe had 200 plants growing in his basement." Mark Brayford, the lawyer who represented Dosch, agrees the intrusion of electronic surveillance is troubling. "The vast majority of people whose voices are on wiretaps don't know it," he said. Brayford pointed to the fact 2,000 hours of tape involving dozens of innocent people yielded just 20 bits of incriminating evidence against Dosch. Brayford questioned the severity of sentences for marijuana offences. He noted in Saskatchewan, trafficking marijuana can net a longer sentence than molesting a child. For Dosch, who was convicted last month, it brought a 16-month jail term. Umberto Iorfida, president of NORML Canada (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), said it's time to end the war against pot. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is against legalization but wants Ottawa to look at decriminalization in some instances. |
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This page updated March 17, 1999
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in Saskatchewan pretend they are soldiers and come up with macho names like Operation this and Operation that. Maybe they think thay are doctors with all these operations. They are neither soldiers or doctors. They are self-important hypocrites and liars. Worse than that, they use agents and criminals to do their dirty work for them. They make them promises they cannot keep.
The sting in Estavan named "Operation Margaret" was dreamed up by an unnamed sergeant who has left in disgrace. The sergeant paid an informant to make false claims against six people. The informant was then protected under the Crimestoppers program. On Jan. 11, 1995, dentist Dr. Dean Chow
, while seeing a patient, was arrested, handcuffed and held for 14 hours. Charges against him were quashed at a preliminary hearing six months later. The mayor has apologized and Chow has been paid $160,000. Two others caught in this sting have received settlements and one lawsuit is pending. Former police chief Ray Worsnop won't talk to the media. injusticebusters is concerned that the identity of the crooked sgt. has been withheld. He could quietly show up in Saskatoon and fit right in with the narcotics squad here. He is free right now and we think he should be in jail!
Pails with calcium chloride Dr. Chow was using to dry his basement were seized as $750,000 worth of "crack cocaine".
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