When the Mounties did stoop to informing the public that a nightmare was on the loose, they did it far too late and in the wrong place. For God’s sake, no one checks Twitter first thing on a Sunday morning to see if they might get shot to death while they’re out for a walk — as 69-year-old Tom Bagley was on Day Two.
In any event, this isn’t just any small-town force. It’s the once-proud and mighty RCMP. If a province is going to contract out law enforcement to a federal agency, surely one of the benefits ought to include a nationwide hive-mind of experience, expertise and best practices.
“What are the police for?” the report asks, not unreasonably. In answering, it cites criminologist Ian Loader’s 2016 book, “In Search of Civic Policing: Recasting the ‘Peelian’ Principles.” “The basic mission of the police is to improve public safety and well-being by promoting measures to prevent crime, harm and disorder,” the first principle reads. The fourth to “treat all those with whom they come into contact with fairness and respect.” The fifth to “be answerable to law and democratically responsive to the people they serve”; the sixth to “achieve the optimal balance between effectiveness, cost-efficiency, accountability and responsiveness.
“Peelian” is in reference to Sir Robert Peel, twice British prime minister, co-founder of the U.K. Conservative Party and founder of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Peel is commonly referred to as having invented modern policing — nearly 200 years ago. In the two centuries since, policing has never been anything close to perfect.
Lucki as commissioner appointed by PM Blackface enough said! Incompetence begets incompetence
As someone who has lived in Nova Scotia my entire life and policed by RCMP in my town I would prefer city police. Rotating RCMP officers every few years is an issue. They are not what we need. We prefer familiar, community policing by those who know us, have grown up here.
The Liberal Party of Canada either!
After unbelievable mismanagement, Canada has never been in more need of a serious overhaul. Thanks to irresponsible spending, the next time we have responsible leaders we won't be able to afford the fix
This massacre could happen again any time, anywhere the RCMP provide policing and it is highly likely the same mistakes will be made again. Canada IS broken when the govt can't even get basic policing right. Things don't need to be this way.
Wonder how life bf it will take before this report is lost like the Brown report in the 70’s
Sorry, but these incidents don't happen in larger, busier RCMP locations because those areas have more officers working due to more dense tax bases. Rural NS and other spots won't ever be able to afford to have swat teams on standby, even if not RCMP. There is no tax base for it.
The entire report is written like the PM's word salads. Leanne Fisher's experience was Chief of Fredericton Police, which has 100 officers in one small city. How is she qualified at all to make recommendations to a national police force of 22k officers all over Canada.
You could go after how completely, utterly woke the report is Chris. Closing RCMP Depot and turning the land over to first Nations? We gonna do that with all federal property? You count how many references to LGBT in the report? It's more than 150.
God bless Canada 🇨🇦
But... You get a pension... and you get a pension...
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