CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Police Misconduct, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Nunavut

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Sheri Fabian

Document Summary

Old buys club = police oicers protect each other-code of silence. Legislaion ie. the charter, ani-terrorism act, criminal code + any amendments. Geography & demographics big dif policing in small town in nunavat and policing in vancouver. Ethnic & cultural diversity of canadian society- (can"t ignore) esp canada is pop with immigrants. Economic, poliical & current cultural trends as things change, new problems will emerge and police will need to develop new strategies/approaches. Mounies always get their man-only 40-60% of cases are actually solved. Police frequently use force is actually prety rare. The likelihood oicers actually ire their irearm in a line of duty is very rare. When u call the police, they will come that is only true in certain municipaliies (depends where u are) Accountability-(ie. surrey rents rcmp oicers they are accountable to federal law-rcmp act)-not accountable to municipaliies (even tho they serve in)