The RCMP Is Not At All Good At Maintaining the Right

Nope.

Its forte is more trampling old ladies: 

The most contentious part of the inquiry surrounds this second day, and the notion that police may have been able to prevent some of the nine additional murders if they had appropriately sounded the alarm. Most notably, police failed to authorize the Alert Ready system, which would have sent an audible warning to every mobile phone in the region, along with a description of Wortman.

One reason was that senior Mounties didn’t even know about the Alert Ready system. “Had no knowledge of it,” the RCMP district commander, Allan Carroll, told the commission. Officers also assumed that the killer had taken his own life after the initial massacre at the Portapique subdivision. ...

The one detail from the inquiry that made international headlines was that RCMP first responders very narrowly avoided killing an innocent bystander in the massacre’s chaotic opening minutes. Three Mounties — Stuart Beselt, Aaron Patton and Adam Merchant — sped to the scene knowing only that they were responding to a “shooting,” and that the perpetrator may be driving “what looked like a police car.” What they encountered when they arrived was what Patton described as a “war zone”: bodies in the street, thick smoke from house fires and the constant sound of explosions from propane and gasoline tanks. ...

As details of the massacre have emerged throughout the commission, roughly 44 people have reported coming within sight of Wortman during the killings –—meaning they were likely only a few seconds removed from becoming victims themselves. The most notable is RCMP Cpl. Rodney Peterson, who saw Wortman (bearing an “unsettling grimace”) drive past him going the opposite direction at 9:47 a.m. on the massacre’s second day. ...

Not much later, Wortman would indeed kill an RCMP officer. Soon after Wortman ambushed another officer and wounded him, Const. Heidi Stevenson rammed the shooter’s vehicle and was killed in a subsequent exchange of gunfire.

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In the aftermath of Wortman’s murderous rampage, neither the federal nor provincial governments were keen to establish a full-bore judicial inquiry — especially not one that could subject the RCMP to the searching scrutiny afforded by sworn testimony and aggressive cross-examination. ...

The family of murder victim Heather O’Brien responded with fury when the commission’s summary of evidence elided one particularly unpleasant fact: Data from O’Brien’s Fitbit showed that her heart continued to beat many hours after RCMP Const. Ian Fahie, who attended the aftermath of her shooting, had wrongly concluded that she was dead — and shooed away paramedics because an active shooter incident was underway.