Canada

And your list of allegations points out another problem.

I can understand insulating police officers to some extent from criminal charges incurred in the line of duty while the court process is taking place, because the nature of their job is going to mean that they get hit with more than the average number of charges for things like assault that end up not panning out . . . but there's no way intimate partner violence should be occurring in the line of duty for police, and they should not be protected from it. (Given extra mental health supports in a bid to avoid it, sure, but once it happens they need to be treated like everyone else.)

These are the things that really bother me. Not that they're not left without income while under being tried/reviewed. If it's easier to fire the bad apples, the money spent on them doing nothing would be less as well.

It is incredible how powerful the police union is.

That's because it's the only union that employers can't send the cops to harass

This also makes it baffling that the cops seem shocked when the public don't trust them.

Under 10 percent of officers convicted of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and sexual harassment were fired. How on earth could they possibly defend this?

It makes sense to make sure police officers aren't forced into bankruptcy while charges are pending but ideally we'd rely on EI and social insurance for that.

Better yet, would be to leave it up to the union to provide suspension pay in the same way that many unions have strike funds to help their members survive strikes and lockouts.

I bet it wouldn't take long for the unions to drop their support of these criminals. That, in turn, would make it easier to fire them.