RCMP's district commander didn't know the Alert Ready system 'existed' on the night the N.S. mass shootings began
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saltwire.comPosted Mar 11, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC
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saltwire.comI'm going to start from the premise that he's telling truth.
This is something I've never understood. How is that anyone can be ignorant of fundamental aspects of their jobs?
Worse in this case, how is it that anyone working in public safety doesn't know about the Public Alert system. Never mind job training, have they been wandering around with a blindfold and earplugs? I'm betting you could pick 1000 random people off the street and find no more than 5 who weren't aware of its existence.
It's not the nutjobs who'll end us but the ignorant.
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I think you’re starting from a faulty premise
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I think you’re starting from a faulty premise
Could be. That's why I stated it explicitly.
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It would be the perfect lie. Because it would cause the noise and distraction of people being absolutely baffled and infuriated at the possibility of someone that high up not understanding something so basic. Keeping their focus anywhere but on what actually happened.
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Please resign.
Your negligence killed people.
You're a piece of fucking dogshit.
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Considering this is the RCMP, he'll probably get a promotion out of it
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They don't have the money. Just an award.
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The guy they are referencing was on the force for 40 years and was retiring in one month.
My question is, who is above that guy that let it happen where there was a 40 year veteran of the force, obviously behind the times, stagnate on his responsibilities and knowledge, without a capable younger replacement who might be up to date on such modern developments to point them out.
At this point he was probably largely in transition mode. Is this the top of the chain of command?
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Really? Because I specifically the remember the week before the shooting, we were getting all kinds of alerts reminding people to "stay inside because of COVID" and "wash your hands!" and everyone was complaining about being woken up in the middle of the night by phones loudly screeching to tell us stuff that we already knew. Did the commander's phone just not get those messages, that he didn't know the system existed and/or worked? Where did he think those messages came from?
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He probably had one of Doug Fords old BlackBerrys.
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This is why the cops don't want to testify - they will expose their own incompetence.
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This case will be really interesting in 30 years when it’s either revisited and people tell the truth, or someone spills the beans before they die. Until then it’s gonna be one of those madness tunes that slowly drives people insane
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This entire event is so extremely suspicious on so many levels -- from the shooter's connections with organized crime, the possibility that he was an informant or something, the deafening silence of the RCMP during the event -- that I wouldn't expect to ever get the full truth. I'm sure about one thing -- I will not be trusting a single word from law enforcement about it.
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I will not be trusting law enforcement. Period.
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Smart strategy.
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Mounties reputation sinks to new lows.
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If the RCMP isn’t successful in completely stonewalling and/or derailing this, we’re going to get a worthy sequel that the McDonald Commission.
Which, for those who are unaware, you should really read about the McDonald Commission, because it’s utterly wild.
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Bullshit.
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Cops doing bad jobs of being cops goes all the way to the top.
More at 11.