A very skewed perspective. For example the opening remarks: "Recruiting by the RCMP is also a form of conforming or indoctrination. RCMP member and recruits must conform to the higher ranking members’ agenda or risk being sidelined. " This also applies to law school and lawyers under the Law Society. It also applies to doctors and the college of Physicians and Surgeons.
"1. Leave home, family, and friends. 2. Eat different food. 3. Dorm living. Loss of privacy. 4. Lack of sleep. 5. Learn a new language. 6. Wear a uniform. 7. Rigid control of time." Seems to me those that have gone to university in another province have experienced the same. the uniform part being the wearing of the accepted norm for university students.
One of the reasons for on base liquor consumption is the fact that in public facilities, the recruits, or cadets, are subject to harassment and targeting due to who they are. Eliminate that target atmosphere and such problems disappear and members do not get into trouble off base when liquor is being served. The separation of the ranks is nothing more than not drinking with the CFO, the Prsident, the COO, and the VPs of any company or corporation.
Joseph F. Dietrich Ph.D., C.A.C obviously never worked on a road construction crew, a rodeo group, the race track, various construction groups, that you will find the same conditions, such as I have experienced.
The list of questions vis a vis yes or no answers are simplistic and do not reflect the real world situation in which they could appear as opposed to public/private interactions or investigative necessities. I will only comment on the very first one, "RCMP members compulsively protect their inner feelings? " Absolutely as you sit across from the guy who just justified his sexual abuse of his child in an interview room. However, once you are home you can vent about how disgusting and vile the person is and how upset you were at the non value place don an innocent child.
As for the Part Two, yet another diatribe by Calvin Lawrence who has made a second career of dissing the RCMP at every turn, on every website and not even called upon by the news people anymore. Is there bullying in the RCMP? Of course, as long as you have people in large numbers some will fit that handle. Ask yourself who is the target of the bully and why do they not target others? Ask yourself the make up of the ones who are not bullied and you will find solid cops who can deal with just about any situation. Go back to high school if you like and ask who the bullies did not pick on. If you say not enough is done, perhaps you a are right, but if you think you are going to eliminate bullying from society or all organizations in any was shape or form, you are dreaming in technicolor and need to research how to deal with them and then do it.
Some of the very finest human beings I have had the honor of serving with or befriending have been in the RCMP. I am not sure what the constant detraction is aimed at as no organization in the world is free from the various ills of society. The RCMP is not perfect but I would opine that neither is any other one. If you expect the RCMP to be perfect in every way, once again you are dreaming in technicolor.
You may also wish to ask if the recruitment process has not exacerbated certain issues within the organization. In the unholy seal to acquiesce to the federal written and unwritten hiring guidelines are the right people being recruited and are they being told up front exactly what a career in the RCMP is all about. Fatal accidents with body parts, suicides with grizzly scenes, investigations into child abuse, spousal abuse, victims of weapon attacks, shootings, stabbings, seeing people at their worst possible times. Add in the incessant paperwork to satisfy the miasma that is the bureaucracy and legal system. Constantly being short on resources needed to serve the community you are in. The list is long and as far as I know, the dark side of policework is what is being hidden. You have to be honest with the people you are trying to hire, and honest with the people in authority who control budgets like town councils etc. I have not spoken to one new member in recent years that has ever gotten the picture before they joined the RCMP.