“Governments at all levels are failing to make the connection between the lack of federal enforcement and the unprecedented conditions facing our local communities,” MacLeod said. “We’ve never had more homeless people or people with psychiatric problems. There have never been more illegal drugs on our streets. Why? It can all be traced back to the impact of international crime, including organized commercial crime, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The federal government is largely responsible. The RCMP is tasked with the responsibility of federal law enforcement, but federal policing enforcement has not kept pace. Instead, we see more and more of our federal policing dollars being invested into a fundamentally flawed structure where the RCMP is stretched well beyond its primary mandate.”

There’s a lot of really interesting stuff in this article. Thanks for posting it.

Yeah, every analysis of the RCMP I’ve ever seen seems to agree that the elimination of their local policing responsibilities has got to be the first priority.