MetaFilter posts tagged with RCMP

"Police, stop or you will be hit with 50,000 volts of electricity!"

Shepherd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:11:13 -0800

Taser use in law enforcement has been under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially following the death of Robert Dziekanski in a Vancouver airport last year after being Tasered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (previously). Now the CBC and Canadian Press have sifted through over 5,000 incident reports to create a RCMP Taser use database, tracking use of tasers by Canada's federal law enforcement by province, incident, year or stuns used. This, for instance, shows the 116 times a Taser was used in relation to an impaired driving incident in 2006 through 2007. You can even click through for details on each specific incident, including officers present, whether the subject was aware of the Taser, and whether the subject him/herself was armed. Also according to the CBC, Taser use by the RCMP has declined sharply in the last year. You can download the RCMP Operational Manual on Conducted Energy Weapons in either its newly amended (February '09) form or a original pre-amended flavour.

Double parking? Double taser.

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:11:57 -0800

A 68 year old. 145 lb. man with a neurological condition was tasered by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers following a dispute over double parking. The man was picking up his wife, who was delivering newspapers. This happened less than a month after the RCMP tasered a Polish man who had spent 10 frustrating hours trying to find his mother in the Vancouver International Airport following 15 hours of travel. He died on the scene. When the first man's wife told the RCMP officers of her husband's neurological condition, the officer told her, "We don’t have to know about people’s medical conditions." The Polish man who died was tasered 24 seconds after meeting the RCMP officers. He did not speak English.

"Massive terror attack averted"

loquax — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:54:43 -0800

Newsfilter: Canadian Police (led by the RCMP) have arrested at least 17 people that were plotting to "launch attacks against targets in Southern Ontario", apparently in large part by monitoring Internet co-ordination and communication. This days after the CSIS deputy director warned of "homegrown extremists" plotting "large scale attacks".

4 RCMP slain in routine guard of grow-op [.]

phyrewerx — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:16:35 -0800

"The loss of four police officers is unprecedented in recent history in Canada" - 4 Royal Canadian Mounted Police guarding a property suspected of running a grow-op were slain in Alberta. This man was known "[to have] hated the RCMP and blamed them for everything wrong with his life". Already there are calls to revisit Canada's stance on marijuana and grow-ops. [.]

vesper — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:45:49 -0800

This isn't about agriculture. Today, twelve prairie farmers have surrendered themselves to RCMP, rather than pay a fine for their illegal activities. Their mutual crime was choosing to export their wheat crop independently, rather than through the Canadian Wheat Board. Are state-run agricultural monopolies appropriate, especially when their authority is exerted unevenly throughout the country? Do you think the action taken by these farmers is justified?

Jairus — Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:20:28 -0800

Designer Drugs and Raves - Second Edition (PDF). A Royal Canadian Mounted Police document designed to educate and inform police officers and social workers alike, complete with helpful photos of "The Candy Raver".

The result of a three-year 'intelligence probe' into the rave scene, it's an interesting read, and a fairly good indication of the Canadian government's attitude towards increasing drug use at raves and nightclubs.