Editor:
Re: Public was consulted on policing: McCallum, April 12
Mayor McCallum appears determined to consolidate assets (cancelling a long-anticipated project), and push fake news, in “Trump-esque” style, regarding public consultation.
Public consultation is a process, there are rules to follow. Being elected is not a substitute for public consultation. Campaign promises are a different process, involving considerable heapings of enticement.
The RCMP don’t administer a different set of laws than a municipal police force would.
So why would municipal police be able to do a better job?
Is it that Mayor McCallum thinks he will have more control over a publicly-funded force? That’s the only reason that makes sense to me.
In exerting that control, would he be working to hire extra police and institute old-style tyranny, over “his” force?
It’s an old-school running shoe, and it smells bad for the people of Surrey.
It will cost us so very dearly – just ask the citizens of Abbotsford, New Westminster or Burnaby, and look forward to long legal suits.
We don’t have a policing problem, we have demographic problem and an old-school mayor problem.
E.M. Butler, Cloverdale
