Canada’s Big Government Kickbacks: Tow truck corruption involving Police, apparently has more members than just Ottawa cops – June 5, 2020,
To serve and protect and collect a bigger check, apparently, the government taxpayer-funded paycheck isn’t enough for some cops, because some of them have decided to get involved in a Tow Truck scam, a scam where drivers can make up to $1,000 per “hook” and kick back as much as $500 to the friendly officer that refers his favoured driver to a collision scene.
Police are humans and nothing about this surprises me, what’s disheartening to me is how much trust Canadians put into Big Government because it’s not like humans with government authority all of a sudden become better humans. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…”. There is no one hero in society, we all as a co-operative make society great, and the only thing that happens when outsourcing your rights, liberties, and freedoms to big government is those Government workers try to find a way outside the system they’re managing.
This gradual progression to tyranny happens in small increments until it’s blatantly in your face and you realize that you have little to no alternative. This tow truck scheme is just one of many schemes that exist in the public sector. It’s easier to catch provincial cops than it would be to catch some other public sector worker because the police interact with the public a lot more than say a government worker doing illegal backroom deals that are usually to complex for the average law-abiding citizen to understand.
This stuff happens primarily because it can happen, it’s why a government should always be kept small and flexible, because, the cops involved did this because they assumed there was little to no incentive for anyone to look into it!
It was actually a whistleblower that exposed the story because chances are even if law-abiding Cops knew about the Tow-Truck scheme, it’s in their best interest to remain silent about it. Government workers have their own fraternities. They’re getting paid and don’t have to worry about competition, there’s no competition for the police force, so for some, once they comprehend this job security reality, the test their boundaries and see what else they can get away with. This is often the reality for a lot of government workers!
Interesting times ahead
