The RCMP is never held to account for its own tragic, devastating wrongdoing

If we don’t do the heavy lifting of fundamental change in the RCMP, we are condemning more Indigenous people to high-risk interactions with the police. We are sitting idly by, knowing that a number of neighbours and relations will die at the hands of officers in the future, and without consequence. And that’s on us.  
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, right, and Deputy Commissioner Brian Brennan at the House Public Safety Committee on July 25, 2022. Lucki is stepping down next month. Lucki, who is stepping down next month, has faced intense criticism for the RCMP’s handling of multiple crises in recent years.

OTTAWA—A report by the RCMP Civilian Review and Complaints Commission reviewed incidents between 2000 and 2004 when Indigenous girls and women working on the street in Prince George, B.C., were allegedly sexually abused by up to nine RCMP officers. Even when the evidence s...

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