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Just read what Commissioner Poulson himself said about RCMP culture. He himself said they are a couple of incidents away from dissolution of the force. You want to sing everything is beautiful, except for a few rotten apples, go ahead. There is a culture of being above the law in the force, and one of circle the wagons. Same with the DA mentioned in the story who won't charge those cops - he'd fit right in with our Attorney General's department too.
There may be a culture amongst some officers of being above the law, but it's still being implemented by a minority of them, not the majority and I think the good commissionaire exagerates when he says they may have been a couple of instances from dissolution.
If that's really the case they likely won't survive the decade because it's gonna take them that long to weed out the bad ones.
If they'd dissolved the RCMP how quickly could you disband the force. Also, if you thought if the environment was bad now can you imagine how bad it's be if they said in 5 years the force would be dissolved. They'd lose 90% of their officers the day it wass anounced and then where would the hundreds of communities and provinces get their policing from in the interim?
My guess is that they'll never be dissolved, cleaned up yes, all the top brass and senior officers thoughout the country retired or let go, yes, a new sticter set of regulations written, yes, a civilian overseer appointed yes, but dissolved, no.
The Australian Navy went through this exact same scenario a couple of decades ago and they're still around albiet with a totally different culture and senior officer corps but they survived just like the RCMP will, despite certain peoples best efforts.
CKA Uber 
