Autonomous, Not Untouchable: New Report Urges Canada to Rethink Police Accountability | Frontier Centre For Public Policy

Winnipeg, September 2024 – A new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy titled “They Must Not Become the Law Unto Themselves: Bringing Made-in-Canada Democratic Accountability to Autonomous Policing” argues that police independence in Canada is misunderstood, and this confusion is eroding public trust and creating dangerous policing inconsistencies.
The report, authored by Joseph Quesnel, Senior Research Fellow with the Frontier Centre, takes a hard look at the doctrine of police independence and its evolution, asserting that police should not be viewed as completely independent entities but as autonomous institutions accountable to elected officials and, ultimately, the Canadian public.
— Read on fcpp.org/2024/09/25/autonomous-not-untouchable-new-report-urges-canada-to-rethink-police-accountability/