Notice a pattern ? When you look at these posts one after another, it stops reading like isolated incidents and starts looking like a pattern Canadian policing has not gotten under control. In a short window, officers and former officers from the OPP, RCMP, Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, Windsor, and Hamilton to name a few, have been charged, disciplined, or convicted in cases involving alleged sexual assault, workplace sexual harassment, child sexual abuse material, unauthorized police-database searches used to identify women, and an alleged assault of a sex worker while officers were off duty overseas. Every person facing an open charge is entitled to the presumption of innocence. That does not require the public to treat the volume as normal. Two Ontario Provincial Police officers from the same Southern Georgian Bay detachment were charged with sexual assault and breach of trust days apart. Both were suspended with pay. A Sault Ste. Marie OPP constable already facing sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, and indecent exposure charges was then charged with seven new counts of failing to comply with his release order. In Nova Scotia, an RCMP officer facing multiple sexual assault files had one 2023 case stayed because it took too long to reach trial. A former Waterloo Regional Police officer was sentenced to 18 months after being found in possession of 287 child sexual abuse images. The sentencing judge still described him as a serious ongoing risk to children. Ottawa’s own chief has described officers running licence plates on women they saw at gyms and coffee shops through restricted police databases. Three off-duty Toronto officers were charged in Spain after a sex worker alleged she was sexually assaulted and punched in the face in a taxi. They returned to Canada and were suspended with pay. A Windsor officer was found to have made sexualized phone calls to a female co-worker and spent a long stretch on paid suspension before internal discipline. A Toronto officer was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and assault that court documents describe as intimate-partner violence, and he too was suspended with pay. A Hamilton officer, a former school liaison, was charged with possessing and transmitting child sexual abuse material. That service used newer provincial rules and suspended him without pay. That last distinction is the part the public keeps paying for. For years the default in Ontario was that an officer charged with a serious sexual offence could remain on the payroll while the file moved through court. Some services now use the Community Safety and Policing Act to suspend without pay. Many still do not. The result is that taxpayers fund the leave of people the public is no longer supposed to trust with a badge, while complainants wait, cases stall, and some files die on delay instead of being decided. The concern is not that every officer is involved. The concern is how often the same themes repeat: charges laid against more than one person in the same detachment, new allegations while someone is already on release, workplace sexual harassment handled as docked pay, restricted databases used for personal contact, and off-duty conduct that still carries the weight of the uniform. If screening, supervision, and discipline were working, this list would not keep growing. Add other recent Canadian files in the comments — names, services, outcomes, and whether the officer was left on paid suspension. The public record is already large enough that pretending each story stands alone is no longer honest.