By Jeff Cummings, QMI Agency
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Criminologist Bill Pitt said an apology from acting police Chief Dave Korol to Edmonton’s Somali community on Friday wasn’t warranted since many witnesses haven’t fully co-operated with homicide detectives. The apology follows Det. Bill Clark’s remarks saying he’s fed up with lack of witness co-operation.
“This was unnecessary,” said Pitt.
“The apology smacks of political pandering. If anything, the Somali community should apologize to the City of Edmonton for its lack of cooperation in all of these murders.
“It was not the role of the police to go cap in hand on bent knee and apologize to this community.
“It’s up to that community to step up. That community needs to stop projecting on to the police that it’s their fault on what’s going on in their community.”
On Friday, Korol unveiled a poster highlighting 12 slayings of the Somali-Canadians in Edmonton since 2006 — it’s message in bold reads “somebody out there knows.”