Dealing with the Fascist members of the New Brunswick R.C.M.P.!!!

Charles,


Well, both sides have a point. Police don't really 'fight' crime, they mainly enforce laws. For serious crimes they are almost useless since they can't show up until later.

But Charles point has always been the organizational structure of the NB RCMP. Of course most cops ARE good people, but most people are good people.

The problem in police work is the same as in the military, the rigid hierarchical structure. The happy medium would of course be police whose regulations are dictated by the public in some way. Even in Egypt during this time the people are organized into neighbourhood watches, which can be far more effective than police.

In Hamilton there was a group of little old ladies who used to drive around by the university and literally scold people into obeying noise regulations.

I remember here when the power went out all over the city, and ironically the ONLY intersection which was chaos was one where a police officer was trying to regulate it.

That doesn't mean police themselves are any different than anybody else, it just means that they operate under different guidelines, and Charles has some legitimate complaints about them. Manitoba, and Ontario to the lesser extent, are the only provinces I know of which have citizen oversight committee's to hold police accountable. When you have such a system, the benefit is that people's sometimes legitimate opinion of police is higher.