A public inquiry has identified widespread failures in how Canada's federal police force responded to a 2020 massacre that saw 22 killed, recommending the government to rethink the country's policing.
A public inquiry has found widespread failures in how Canada's federal police force responded to the country's worst mass shooting and is recommending that the government rethink the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's central role in the country's policing.
Disguised as a police officer, Wortman shot people in their homes and set fires in a killing spree that included 16 crime scenes in five rural communities across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history and said he hopes the report is one of the many steps toward ensuring a tragedy like that never happens again.
The report delves deeply into the causes of the mass shooting. These include the killer's violence toward his spouse and the failure of police to act on it, and "implicit biases" that seemed to blind officers and community members to the danger that a white, male professional posed. Having laid out a litany of shortcomings, the inquiry calls for a fresh external review of the police force.
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