A new government committee has gotten underway to reform the Police Act in British Columbia. It has gotten off to a suspect start. At the committee meeting of January 5, 2021, NDP MLA Garry Begg (Surrey-Guildford) said: "There is this 'Defund the police' thing going on in the States. There are some huge racial issues that I don't think we face here." To be clear, police in Canada have been developed to impose and uphold settler colonialism and racial capitalism.
Begg is, perhaps not surprisingly, a former RCMP officer
with 40 years on the force. He has been District Commander, Watch Commander,
and Operations Support Officer with the Surrey RCMP. Begg says he got into
politics to “tackle crime.” The only surprise there is that a supposedly social
democratic party would run a longtime commander in the colonial militia as a
candidate. Begg was first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2020.
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