I can see why the RCMP would want to get out of policing contracts, especially in remote rural areas. Provinces cut/freeze the policing budgets, so the RCMP reduce the number of officers/local detachments, response times go up, politicians blame the RCMP. Rince and repeat.
With provincial or municipal police forces, poor policing lands squarely on the municipality/province.
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I can see why the RCMP would want to get out of policing contracts, especially in remote rural areas. Provinces cut/freeze the policing budgets, so the RCMP reduce the number of officers/local detachments, response times go up, politicians blame the RCMP. Rince and repeat.
With provincial or municipal police forces, poor policing lands squarely on the municipality/province.