| Canada is a huge fan of passive policing, basically we use every resource outside of actual cops to do police work. Some of it's excessive (photo-radar, there have been so many accounts of bribery and misuse with this technology, as well the average speed outside photo-radar zones has actually gone up, yet they still use it), some useful (red light cameras have severely reduced crashes in intersections where the bases are installed (and in Edmonton you have a 1/3 chance they won' even have a camera, so they are super effective).
I always see more of a police presence in the US then I ever do in Canada. |