Ditching the Mounties and starting from scratch is the only sensible response to failures this profound.
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.
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