It's inevitable that sooner or later, we're going to say or do something that sounds good in our heads but ends up causing way more embarrassment than we expected when we actually have an audience for them.
And while even the most prominent individuals are known to put their feet in their mouths in this way all the time, it's true that entire organizations aren't immune to this phenomenon either.
And while it's not impossible to find cases where a decision that outraged the public had actual malice behind it, most are simply the result of nobody who had oversight over a public statement realizing just how that statement came off.
And that scenario seemed to cause some recent embarrassment for one police department in Canada.
