The police board has decided not to renew Chief Blair’s contract, a decision that pleases me. On the bad side, a careless driver has sent our popular city councillor to the hospital, knocking her off her bicycle at Beach Hill’s busiest intersection. The driver has been charged and, thank goodness, Mary Margaret will be OK.
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Be careful what you wish for.
We could always do worse than Blair. Fantino, for example. But I don’t think that’s enough reason to reward Blair with another contract. He admitted to making up the law, not enforcing it, during the G20 fiasco. in my view, that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the job.
Blair is reasonably personable on TV and he is at odds with the Ford Brothers … two factors in his favour … but not enough. He cannot break the law in the name of enforcing it. He lost control of police at the G20 and resisted following council orders to reduce the police budget.
Yes, we could do worse, but we could also do much better.