The RCMP is broken - Macleans.ca

Leon Joudrey shuts his phone off before he goes to bed, so when he awoke in his Portapique, N.S., home early on the morning of April 19, he had no idea that 13 of his neighbours, including some of his closest friends, had been murdered while he slept.

They took the killer’s common-law wife away, but still he says nobody told him what had happened. Only when a friend called did Joudrey learn that his closest friends had been murdered. He is haunted by that, and has had to abandon his home and move away to cope with the stress. “I drove around for two or three hours, the most confusing two or three hours of my life, with all my friends dead and I didn’t know it. Now that I know what happened, it was like driving through a graveyard.

Dobson’s father is one of the people who has proposed a class action lawsuit against the RCMP and the province, saying the authorities failed to “protect the safety and security of the public.” The lawsuit alleges that the RCMP returned a vehicle to one family with gun casings and human remains inside, and that the initial RCMP response was hampered by understaffing.

This is the structural problem at the heart of the RCMP, an instantly recognizable symbol of Canada around the world. Its essential work as a federal force is undermined by its obligations as an underfunded rural police force working on contract for provincial and municipal governments. Increasingly, it looks like the Mounties are struggling at both of these competing missions, and are too often a danger to both themselves and the people they are sworn to protect.

Indigenous leaders say this bitter legacy of genocidal colonialism continues now. Since the RCMP polices much of rural Canada, and also is responsible for national security, Mounties are typically called on to clear blockades and to gather intelligence on Indigenous activists that resource companies consider a threat.

The RCMP says the incident started as a routine traffic stop and has referred it to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team for an independent investigation. “The employees of the Alberta RCMP have built positive relationships with Indigenous and visible minority communities across the province and we continue working to make those relationships better,” says Fraser Logan, Alberta RCMP media relations manager.

The RCMP is like a dirty family secret that everyone knows but prefers to ignore. Canadians know the force has serious internal issues and is not the heroic force of lore. The fix requires a reckoning, and a reckoning takes Will

And the RCMP have no insurance..as of April 1 2014 under terrorist act put in place after 911 attack

Hopefully the good RCMP officers (the majority, imo) will now begin to step forward to identify the jerks in their ranks, and demand better leadership.

Good article. Keep doing the hard work. “The senior leadership of the RCMP has therefore demonstrated over the last several decades that it is incapable of making the systemic reforms necessary to effect cultural change on its own.”

EmmMacfarlane RCMP Spokesperson: 'We are angry with Jagmeet Singh about this too. This criticism is probably is his fault, somehow.'

It seems par for the course since Harper.

The RCMP are underfunded and stretched thin with contract policing. They need to be our national criminal police.Dealing with national threats. Terrorism, Contraband, Human Trafficking,Cyber,money laundering etc.Provinces need to run their own local police who know the community.

Vancouver's Chief of police is my idol. His interview on cbc today regarding changing our policies from criminialzing our friends/addicts to rehabilitating is profound. ElizabethMay JustinTrudeau

Great read, cheers.

stphnmaher These Christian minded folk are warped.. long before they were the uniform . It's their family upbringing ...uneducated ...nightclub bouncer mindsets ..99% of them. Too much BS...

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