If there's anyone out there that believes cops are bad, but only the American ones; let me tell you about the Starlight Tours that the Saskatoon, SK Police did to indigenous people (and are probably still doing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_death

The most famous incidents occurred when Rodney Naistus, Lawrence Wegner, and Neil Stonechild (three indigenous men, in three separate incidents) were arrested by the Saskatoon PD, usually for "drunkenness or disorderly behavior" (without cause most of the time).

Upon arresting them, the cops would drive them to the outskirts of the city, in the middle of the night, in the dead of winter; take their clothing, and abandon them to freeze to death.

(The incidents involving Naistus and Wegner happened in 2000, and the incident involving Stonechild happened in 1991). In 2003, police chief Russell Sabo did an interview where he admitted that these had been happening at least since 1976, when an officer had been

disciplined for taking an indigenous woman to the outskirts of the city and abandoning her there. There were a couple more incidents where the indigenous people survived, one such incident was also in 2000, when Darrell Night was taken to the edge of the city and left there, but

he was able to call a taxi from a nearby power station. The 2 officers involved claimed they were "taking him home at his own request", but were convicted of unlawful confinement in September 2001 and sentenced to eight months in prison.

In a bit of related info, between 2012 and 2016, the section on the starlight tours on the Saskatoon PD Wikipedia page kept mysteriously disappearing. The police initially denied that they were removing it, but in 2016; the Saskatoon Star Phoenix reported that

someone in the department did indeed remove the section from the Wikipedia page, but did not say specifically who it was.

If any indigenous/Canadian people have any additional context or info to add to this, please do; since I made this thread on a whim at 5am after remembering reading about it years ago, and deciding to check out the Wikipedia page.

(And also since I'm a white American not trying to speak for any indigenous people, rather trying to let people know about this who may not have known about it). I don't write a lot of things, or any threads like this, but I felt like doing this to help educate people.