Actually, it just says the plan was scrapped because he was fired. All that means is he was the one in charge of the plan and nobody took it over after he left. That could have been the intent behind his firing, but it seems about as likely to be collateral damage.
You could be right.. all other sources were extremely tight lipped and would only state that it was down to a difference in philosophy. That was the only article I could find that actually had any indication of what sort of policies he was implementing there in the time leading up to him getting fired and so I am probably pretty guilty of making an inference based on far too little information.
So the Police Chief DARES to intimate that the Police should get on the transit buses to bust these thieves...
And they fire him!?!?!?
Just... Wow...
I can see why most police would just 'go with the flow'. They are not given the requisite latitude to implement innovative ideas with respect to their jobs. And frankly, boarding buses to bust freeloaders is not particularly innovative. It's just something that is usually not done.
Except that the article doesn't even imply that was why he was fired -- it merely says that his plans to put more police on buses have been squished since he was fired.
I'm still trying to figure out the details of this guy's life and how the above story can possibly be correct. It seems like he was the chief only of the Vancouver transit police, right? So precisely which crime stats are we looking at, when we look at the recidivism rates?