GuelphToday received the following Letter to the Editor from reader Michael Douglas regarding police officer Corey McArthur:
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With respect to the Corey McArthur saga, it is a blatant miscarriage of justice that it took six years to arrive at a point where this police officer was adjudicated unfit to be a police officer.
Anyone viewing the graphic telling video from that night at the General Hospital understood within six seconds that he was unfit to serve. Later, when the public learned that this was not his first assault incident, all doubt was removed that this man should never ever serve in the capacity of a police officer again.
To add insult to injury, this individual continued to be paid in full for those six years. It is reasonable to expect that this man received somewhere in the neighbourhood of $850,000 in salary and benefits over this period. These monies would have come from the property taxes paid by the very hard working citizens that he swore to protect and serve.
Interestingly, an article that appeared in GuelphToday on the same day Mr. McArthur was ordered to resign or be fired, the Guelph Police Service announced that they had an $850,000 surplus in their 2022 operating budget.
Hmmm, is there an accountant on the Sunshine List at City Hall who can initiate an accounting adjustment ????
Michael Douglas
