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From last year's northern B.C. killings: "A former police officer is questioning why RCMP waited four days to reveal it was investigating a double homicide in British Columbia" while the killers remained on the loose https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-privacy-public-homicide-1.5227535
From today: "The RCMP in Nova Scotia knew it had a murderous gunman on the loose Saturday night but failed to warn local residents about the threat to their safety through the provincial emergency alert system." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/questions-remain-rcmp-ns-emergency-alert-1.5540100
Also from today: RCMP won't be providing information such as the relationship between victims and their killer https://twitter.com/btaplatt/status/1252956192588136448?s=19
I bring this up because if you have a culture of not actively disclosing information to the public, then... You have a culture of not actively disclosing information to the public, even when it might be information they need to know
There's a broader question here about the culture of public communication within the RCMP, and whether it is a net good or net bad for public safety
If you're in a culture of "we won't tell you about the relationship between victims and killers" and "we won't disclose that the killer was previously convicted of assault because technically it's not a criminal record" then are you more or less likely to put out public alerts?
The more fundamental question is whether you have a culture that views it as a basic tenant to actively disclose information to the public, or one that prefers not to
This isn't a question about individuals within the system. It's a question about the system itself, which shapes individual's behaviour
Fundamentally, if the default position is: "We won't disclose unless there is a good reason to", you wind up in a different place then "We will disclose unless there is a good reason not to".
I am curious what the default position is.
I am curious what the default position is.
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And this, which is arguably not small at all https://twitter.com/withfilesfrom/status/1253098628895236096?s=19
