Previously, I criticized the Harper Government for failing to protect public interests affected by the RCMP. The police organization has been dysfunctional for years and will remain so indefinitely because no fundamental […]
The effort continues to prevent accountability for wrongdoing in law enforcement, including police involved homicides. Who is responsible? Mostly, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and the Harper Government with assistance of […]
Police reserve the right to take over activist groups for 2010 . . . the head of the 2010 Olympic police force has refused to promise that his undercover officers won’t take […]
Terry Dion Ironbow, 29, was struck by a car driven by an RCMP officer, on the Trans-Canada Highway in Valleyview, at around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 11. The officer had just finished […]
Michael Enright introduction: There are two public images of the RCMP. There’s the historical almost mythical image of the Horsemen in Red Serge taming the west, bringing law and order to a […]
An editorial by The Globe and Mail, December 9, 2009: By giving out false information on the fatal tasering of the Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, and refusing to correct the errors for […]
I talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear. I’m on the outside looking inside What […]
Returned from a quick visit south of the border, I cast the one good eye over news of recent days. There is a target rich environment but I couldn’t decide on a […]
October 25, 2009 was the one year anniversary of Orion Hutchinson’s death. There are still no charges against the driver of the car that struck the young cyclist. Attorney General of BC […]
Soon, Sgt. Pepper and his virile squad of spraying constables may represent a kinder, milder mould. Weapons technology is advancing rapidly and the 2010 Olympics provides Canadian police with opportunity and funding […]
New Face of Community Policing Dr. Mike Webster, interviewed by Global TV News, warns that all is not well in the Olympics militarization team with its $1 billion budget. He is worried […]
Lately, I’ve been thinking of Network, a great Sidney Lumet movie written by Paddy Chayevsky. It makes we wonder. Is it, finally, time to be angry? Will even that question result in […]
Superintendent Wayne Rideout appeared again at the Braidwood Inquiry and talked about the RCMP’s ability to conduct investigations of itself. Speaking personally, he said the present system results in an unwinnable predicament, […]
June 9 2009, Delta police recommended charges of dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death against RCMP Corporal Benjamin “Monty” Robinson. The Delta police department refused to explain why it […]
Updated August 24, 9:20 pm Commenter Marc provided a link to Rod Mickleburgh at the Globe and Mail, writing an update to yesterday’s story by the Surrey North Delta Leader. Mickleburgh reports […]
From RightsCity, a project of the BC Civil Liberties Association, with thanks to Jesse Lobdell: The BC Coroner has scheduled an inquest for November 2009 to probe the in-custody death of Robert […]
I guess Chief chief William Elliott is correct; they are making changes in the RCMP after all. Apparently, now when they perceive misinformation sneaking onto the public record, they act quickly. Within […]
Let’s hope they know more about managing investigations of crime than they do about managing public relations. July 23, Thomas Braidwood issued his report recommending severe restrictions on the use of conducted […]
Could there be other surprises about to surface in examination of the Dziekanski homicide? One has to wonder why the Inquiry anticipates soon receiving thousands of documents for examination. This was the […]
The Braidwood Inquiry focuses Canadian attention on a single deadly outcome of police violence. Robert Dziekanski’s death was unusual, but only because a bystander recorded it. That digital video was sufficiently explicit […]
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