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Look, I’ll be the first to promote the Toronto Police and the work they do — especially putting themselves in the line of fire.

And no one in the media was more outraged last summer when Pride Toronto — taking their cues from Black Lives Matter– Toronto — imposed that ridiculous ban on cops marching in the Pride parade (a ban I predict will continue this year).

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Ditto for the wacky bureaucrats and trustees at the Toronto District School Board, who bowed to the shrieks of a few and eliminated the excellent School Resource Officer (SRO) program.

But all this whining — the non-confidence votes and the gnashing of teeth — from Toronto Police officers and their union head, Toronto Police Association President Mike McCormack, has got to stop.

For one thing, from the outside looking in, the police force has not exhibited some of its finest work in recent months. I’m talking about the high-profile murders of celebrated philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman, which were promptly declared a murder-suicide before the autopsy results had even been completed.