The Fifth Estate

Policing the police (46x6)

Air date: Feb 11, 2021

An officer from the Niagara Regional Police Service had been shot multiple times... by a fellow officer. And somehow, the victim survived. It was November 2018. I always wanted to know the story behind the shooting. What I didn't know then is, two years later, I would spend months looking into the incident for The Fifth Estate. What we uncovered was a story even bigger than the sensational shooting. It's a story that touches on the secrecy and shortcomings of the police discipline process in Canada. A story of missed warning signs and a lack of accountability that comes at a defining time in our history, with red hot public protests demanding a better system of policing the police. And rather than simply focusing on a problem, this is a story that offers solutions.