Should the RCMP Reform or Rebuild?

Is the system designed to mitigate liability or foster integrity?

It is easy to throw stones from the outside. I throw many!

Sometimes it is helpful if I take a quick look at the other side. It helps to keep me somewhat grounded. lol

I know that behind the scenes in Ottawa, there are well-meaning people trying to do a near-impossible job.

They manage over 33,000 employees on a budget that is continually consumed by insanely competitive mandates.

They attempt to navigate a political bureaucracy that moves at a snail's pace, with an abundance of personalities and egos, all while legal teams convince them that silence is safer than transparency.

Balancing Treasury Board constraints and political masters with the absolute need for modernization has got to be a challenge.

Institutional protectionism is an obvious result when a system is designed to mitigate liability rather than foster integrity to an objective moral compass.

If the force has become so lost and inward-looking that it cannot hear the "hard, sick truth" from those of us who have lived it, people like Chris Williams, Rapinder "Rob" Singh Sidhu, myself, and many others, then the structure is no longer serving those it employs or those it is there to protect.

When Institutional Protectionism overrides lived experience, public trust is lost.

If being moral leaders means acknowledging that the current bureaucratic framework is too broken to be reformed from within, then we must have the courage to tear it down and rebuild it.

We need a system where evidence isn't a liability but a beginning for the iconic organization most of us would like to see.

Is it time we rebuild from the ground up, an organization built on an objective moral compass and integrity to that compass, rather than on some antiquated egocentric façade of failed chaos?

What do you think, reform or rebuild?