Underfunded, Undermanned RCMP, Prosecutors and Lenient Sentences -- Fear & Charges Dropped -- Spain-Money Laundering-Yukos?

Underfunded, Undermanned RCMP, Prosecutors and Lenient Sentences -- Fear & Charges Dropped

In many rural areas, many people have guns; they probably didn't think someone would plan on ambushing police officers. Every call police officers make can be dangerous; that's why, when the government tried to justify the gun registry, they claimed it would be for officer safety, i.e. police would know if there was a weapon there. Any officer who attends a site and doesn't assume there is a weapon there, should find another line of work. Just because a computer tells you there is a gun registered there or not means nothing. What would happen if the gun registry said there was no weapon on site but there was one?

The gun registry was totally useless; our government through its gun registry went after the 99.5% of the honest duck hunters, farmers and target shooters, when the resources should have been spent going after the 0.5% bad apples. What would have happened if they had had extra manpower for an Emergency Response Team that was close by?

The guy had an assault rifle; he probably should have still been in jail for previous crimes but he was on the loose because of the soft on crime justice system (The Manitoba Judge felt "no one's to blame"). The gun registry was useless and Canada's revolving door justice system played a part in these murders. Nevertheless, the spin doctors will be trying to downplay or divert the story from the real culprits -- Leo Knight was right. (See menu for, "The Spin on the RCMP Killings -- & -- the Assault Rifle -- Gun Registry, Sentencing, Legal System, Justices, Media -- & -- Leo Knight's Commentary") The RCMP and Prosecutors are undermanned and under financed, and the sentences amount to nothing more than a slap on the wrist, so there is no deterrence.

If Minister Anne McLellan had really put $8 billion into security, not smoke and mirrors as with the military budget, they could have had an additional 10,000 officers. Instead, there were only 100-200 officers hired because the security budget was also smoke and mirrors. The government has starved the RCMP for 8 years and the "new" money went into fixing the functional obsolescence and deferred maintenance of computers and communications equipment, not manpower.

One of the reasons that crime stats aren't accurate is that they don't keep statistics on threats to witnesses, so they don't make it to court in the first place.

Long history of hatred -- Roszko

wanted the young man to use his .308 calibre Heckler & Koch assault rifle for the murder - the same weapon it's suspected was used to kill the four Mounties.

Mike D'Amour, Sun Media, Mar. 14, 05

[. . . . ] Roszko may have had a few pals no one knew about, but he also had a long list of young male sex assault victims, some of whom were defiled at gunpoint.

The son of a prominent local citizen was one such victim.

The fact Roszko wasn't charged for that crime comes as no surprise to those who knew him. Charges against him were usually dropped, often because he intimidated witnesses and his victims to the point where they feared for their lives or those of family members.

Despite a court-imposed ban on Roszko owning or possessing firearms, it was well-known he kept several weapons on his property. He became a crack shot, constantly practising at targets as far away as 200 metres. [. . . . ]

Spain-Money Laundering-Yukos?

Spain 'cracks $300m money racket' -- "Spanish authorities said they suspected some of the cash was illegally siphoned from Russian oil company Yukos." Mar. 13, 05

Police in Spain say they have smashed a massive international money-laundering ring centred on the southern coastal resort of Marbella. [. . . . ]

I forget the source / how / who, but I am 90% certain I read there was a Canadian connection to Yukos. Check further.