RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

grumpydigger

#1Jan 13th, 2013

The head of the RCMP admitted that Canada’s national police force neglected to keep tabs on hundreds of cases of serious misconduct committed by Mounties across the country for years.
Commissioner Bob Paulson acknowledged that an access to information request by CBC News inadvertently revealed that not even senior leaders in the RCMP could say with confidence whether incidents of misconduct that include assaults, impaired driving, and fraud were a problem in the force. RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years - Canada - CBC News

It seems as if denial is a major factor with the RCMP.

They have a huge criminal database but yet when criminal acts are committed within the organization they have no idea.

Sadly the people that live in the dumping ground of British Columbia have been keeping track for quite a few years now

And they're not impressed

damngrumpy

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

The RCMP needs a complete overhaul. New leadership and a new direction.
It is also time for civilian oversight in some form.
This clearly demonstrates that the police regard themselves as above the law
and they're not.
It should also be pointed out there are thousands of officers that do a great job
and they are paying the price of those guilty of all kinds of things.
Just when all goes quiet we get more revalations of things not being done
properly

JLM

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by damngrumpy

The RCMP needs a complete overhaul. New leadership and a new direction.
It is also time for civilian oversight in some form.
This clearly demonstrates that the police regard themselves as above the law
and they're not.
It should also be pointed out there are thousands of officers that do a great job
and they are paying the price of those guilty of all kinds of things.
Just when all goes quiet we get more revalations of things not being done
properly

I just heard on C.B.C. news last night that the number of "rotten apples" on the force is less than 1%. If that is true, will any amount of "overhauling" improve anything, or will it more likely just prove to be another bureaucratic burden the taxpayer is saddled with?

taxslave

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Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

I just heard on C.B.C. news last night that the number of "rotten apples" on the force is less than 1%. If that is true, will any amount of "overhauling" improve anything, or will it more likely just prove to be another bureaucratic burden the taxpayer is saddled with?

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The other 99% haven't been doing a very good job of removing the bad apples. Which brings about the term" guilt by association" or in more legal terms "accessory after the fact"

JLM

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

"
The other 99% haven't been doing a very good job of removing the bad apples. Which brings about the term" guilt by association" or in more legal terms "accessory after the fact"

And that is a fact!

grumpydigger

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

how can they even say it is 1% when they openly admit that they dont keep track...its like a banker saying their is a little money missing from your account but dont worry its not a problem

JLM

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by grumpydigger

how can they even say it is 1% when they openly admit that they dont keep track...its like a banker saying their is a little money missing from your account but dont worry its not a problem

I think it might have more to do with not keeping official track, no doubt a Staff Sgt. who has been around for many years would know roughly who all the "bad apples" are but with the illustrious Mr. Trudeau's human rights bullsh*t they can't be officially identified! Meanwhile the guilty enjoy anonymity while the innocent continue to pay! Thank you Mr. Trudeau!

grumpydigger

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

the Staff Sgt. should know who the screwups are in his own crew. But the practice of moving screwups around to protect the rCMPs good name is very well known.....unleashing a incompetent cop on the public who should should have been let go is incompetent management .... not keeping track is a form of fraud on the Canadian people

JLM

Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by grumpydigger

the Staff Sgt. should know who the screwups are in his own crew. But the practice of moving screwups around to protect the rCMPs good name is very well known.....unleashing a incompetent cop on the public who should should have been let go is incompetent management .... not keeping track is a form of fraud on the Canadian people

Playing "Devil's Advocate" and in defense, on rare occasions, troubled people do improve with a change of "scenery" and a different group of associates. Many people who have done badly, resolve to do better but it's hard in the same environment they screwed up in.

taxslave

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Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Playing "Devil's Advocate" and in defense, on rare occasions, troubled people do improve with a change of "scenery" and a different group of associates. Many people who have done badly, resolve to do better but it's hard in the same environment they screwed up in.

That is also what some churches did with pedophile priests. With about the same results.

JLM

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Re: RCMP failed to track internal misconduct for years

Jan 14th, 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

That is also what some churches did with pedophile priests. With about the same results.

Pedophilia is not as easily "cured" as most transgressions, like maybe a cop assaulted someone saw the error of his ways and decided to clean up his act.

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