WATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE ARE DECADES BEHIND THE TIMES

 The Law, Teaching, Nursing are to different degrees female dominated. Are any of those professions suffering because of it? Geez I'd hate to bash nursing especially after what they have done and sacrificed for all of us during the Covid pandemic. The Law I will ignore for the moment. Teaching used to be dominated by women in the younger grades (public school) but I believe even at the high school level the balance is much closer to 50/50 than it used to be. Whatever sins we can hang on our different school boards I would suggest that equal representation or better  by women in teaching has been positive for everybody.                                                                                                                                                          ...............................................................................................                                                                            Longtime male dominated professions/careers include policing, the military, fire fighting and public works departments (landscaping, paving, roadwork, snow ploughing etc.) for municipalities. Yes the City of Waterloo were complete twits regarding how thweir female Works department employees were treated by the male majority back in the 1990s. Yours truly and a couple of female public works employees straightened that out via a Human Rights complaint and more. As far as I know the City sat up and took notice and I really hope that things are markedly better now than they were then.                                          ...................................................................................................

Meanwhile our Regional Police Force just keep on digging themselves into a deeper hole all the time.  Today's Waterloo Region Record continues on with the story of police officer Angie Rivers and the harassment and worse that she has faced. An Arbitration Hearing is underway to determine if the Regional Police responded adequately to her complaints about sexual harassment and gender based discrimination. Does anyone other than some dyed in the wool male cops believe otherwise? For the sake of their credibility in all matters our Police Force needs to stop denying and covering up their 19th century attitudes towards women and embrace their accomplishments and efforts as police officers over the last fourty years.