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🚨OPP’s Top Criminal Profiler Took Bribes and Neglected His Duty While Serial Killer Russell Williams Hunted His Next Victim Ontario Provincial Police Professional Standards Covered Up and Lied to Protect a Colleague. Did Commissioner Chris Lewis Know? (I hope not) In 2008 and 2009, OPP Detective Sergeant Jim Van Allen headed the Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Profiling Unit during the hunt for an escalating sexual predator terrorizing communities in eastern Ontario. Van Allen was personally involved in profiling the Orleans break-in series that began in 2008, and the September 2009 sexual assaults in Tweed that would later be attributed to RCAF Colonel Russell Williams. Long before Williams committed his first murder, Van Allen assessed the then-unknown offender as increasingly aggressive and warned that he posed a growing danger of escalating to sexual assault. Detective Sergeant Van Allen was right - but like many of the criminals he hunted, he too was living a secret life. While his fellow officers trusted him with some of the most serious investigations in Canada, Van Allen was betraying them, betraying his duty and betraying his Oath of Office. He had an illegal business on the side taking bribes to sell confidential police information and the power of his badge and authority to paying outsiders. Understand what Van Allen’s power and authority meant... Jim Van Allen was not merely an experienced detective. He was the OPP’s top criminal profiler – known nationally and internationally. His position carried authority, presence, urgency and extraordinary access. He knew the police systems, the databases, the intelligence channels, the specialists and the people to call. He knew how to make things happen. When Jim Van Allen called, people answered. Because when a homicide investigator says, “I need your assistance,” people respond. Police services respond. Government offices respond. Corporate security departments respond. Banks, hotels, telephone companies, insurers, businesses and institutions all respond – often without waiting for a warrant or subpoena. Homicide never has to ask twice. That enormous public trust, investigative power and authority exists to catch killers and protect innocent people. Detective Sergeant Jim Van Allen was secretly selling it all for filthy money.

Six days after Hurricane Katrina, a family walked across a bridge in New Orleans looking for food and medicine. Police drove up in a rented truck and opened fire without warning. A seventeen-year-old was killed. A forty-year-old man with intellectual disabilities was shot in the back as he ran. The Danziger Bridge. September 2005. James Brissette was seventeen. Ronald Madison was forty and had the mental capacity of a child; he was with his brother Lance. Nobody on that bridge was armed. Nobody had done anything. Then came the part that turned it from a shooting into a conspiracy: officers invented witnesses. They planted a gun. They wrote a report describing a gun battle that never happened. They held meetings to get their stories straight. It went on for years. Federal prosecutors eventually broke it open. Five officers were convicted in 2011. A city was drowning. A family walked across a bridge to find food. And the cover-up lasted longer than the storm, the trial and the appeal combined. This is why we preserve the histories where lives were taken, truth was buried, and accountability came far too late. https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

Update on the firewood theft: The poster’s husband received a camera notification that was sent to his phone and he called the OPP. Soon after the OPP located them and pulled the thieves over. The police made them return the stolen firewood. The OPP said they couldn’t prove the first theft and were not going to charge them for the second. These people act like this because we let them get away without consequences. Another example of our two-tier justice system.

🚨NEW ATIPs🚨 The OPP monitored and surveilled active/retired police officers for their political views during COVID lockdowns. A Dec. 30, 2020 Project ARDEN report — written for the OPP’s COVID team and “stakeholders” — found no threat to the vaccine rollout. Theft or sabotage was VERY LOW, and there were no links to criminal activity. What they actually feared was that the officers would lend credibility and legitimacy to people who opposed the Government's overreach during the pandemic—and despite not having any evidence, they were ordered to continue monitoring officers, networks, and anyone “who has demonstrated opposition to COVID-related public health measures.” The government department that ordered the OPP to engage in this act of espionage against private citizens is still unknown.