StarEditorial: It’s incumbent on the RCMP to conduct a thorough rethinking and reevaluation of how it delivers policing, and to do so together with the people it serves.
of the RCMP is Maintiens le Droit — uphold the right — there's also an unofficial ethos: Don’t tarnish the buffalo.
Now, the buffalo is facing a reckoning. As the Star’s recent series on our iconic federal police service detailed, the badge is badly tarnished, with the RCMP beset by all manner of dysfunction, a hostile work environment andAttempts to rehabilitate the beleaguered service have, to put it mildly, been less than successful.
Although an RCMP union survey found 76 per cent of people in communities served by the RCMP are at least somewhat satisfied with the service, the Western provinces have increasingly issued calls to replace it with a provincial force like the Ontario Provincial Police, or, in larger cities, with municipal police services.
That’s particularly concerning for people in the vast, rural Indigenous jurisdictions that have experienced anMoreover, wait times for a police response can stretch to an hour or more on Indigenous lands since the Mounties are typically posted miles away. It is, therefore, imperative that Indigenous police assume a central role in Indigenous communities — and that Ottawa recognize them as essential services and fund them appropriately.
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