Kent Roach, CM, FRSC is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eighteen books including Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change, shortlisted for both the Balsillie and Donner Prizes for best book in public policy. He has conducted research for public inquiries on policing including the Arar, Air India, Ipperwash, Public Order Emergency, and Toronto Missing Persons inquiries and served as chair of the RCMP’s Management Advisory Board. He received the Molson Prize in 2017 for contributions to the social sciences and humanities.

"In Red Alert, Kent Roach provides a rigorous and timely analysis of the existential crises facing the RCMP. The book's evidence-based blueprint for institutional reform makes it a significant contribution to public policy and an essential text for scholars and practitioners concerned with the future of Canadian justice. Red Alert is an indispensable wake-up call about the need for systemic reform of Canadian policing." - Richard Jochelson, University of Manitoba  "As a First Nations person and a former Court of Appeal judge, I have lived at the intersection of Canadian law and its often-painful history. I thought I knew the story of the RCMP—but Red Alert is a revelation that left me distressed and, at the same time, somewhat optimistic. For anyone who cares about justice, truth, and the soul of this country, Roach's words are a haunting, necessary must-read." - Hon. Harry S. LaForme, Indigenous Lawyer  "The past decade has seen countless reports calling for reform of the RCMP yet very little has changed. This book shines a spotlight on this colossal failure to act. In addition to laying bare the many problems within the RCMP, Kent Roach outlines practical and achievable pathways to change. Red Alert is a wake-up call that has the potential to spark broader demands for change and force real action at last." - Naiomi Metallic, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University"Kent Roach, uses his finely tuned analytic scalpel, via a focus on the RCMP, to provide a trenchant analysis of challenges facing public policing today. He offers an insightful vision that reimagines Canadian policing, both 'high' and 'low', as multi-nodal and multi-tiered. Implementing this vision, as Roach makes clear, will require tenacity, foresight and the courage to confront deeply entrench and deeply partisan vested interests." - Clifford Shearing, Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Toronto, and the Australian National University"A thoughtful and comprehensive blueprint to reimagine RCMP and Indigenous policing in Canada." - David M. Tanovich, University of Windsor

• 1. The RCMP's Existential Crises2. Too Many Massacres: The Contract Policing of Rural and Remote Canada3. Too Many Deaths: Policing and Community Safety in Indigenous Communities4. Red Alert: Federal High Policing of National Security and Organized Crime5. The Hope: Better Policing6. The Worry: Deteriorating Policing7. "As goes Depot, so goes the RCMP"AcknowledgmentsIndex

Kent Roach, CM, FRSC is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eighteen books including Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change, shortlisted for both the Balsillie and Donner Prizes for best book in public policy. He has conducted research for public inquiries on policing including the Arar, Air India, Ipperwash, Public Order Emergency, and Toronto Missing Persons inquiries and served as chair of the RCMP’s Management Advisory Board. He received the Molson Prize in 2017 for contributions to the social sciences and humanities.

"In Red Alert, Kent Roach provides a rigorous and timely analysis of the existential crises facing the RCMP. The book's evidence-based blueprint for institutional reform makes it a significant contribution to public policy and an essential text for scholars and practitioners concerned with the future of Canadian justice. Red Alert is an indispensable wake-up call about the need for systemic reform of Canadian policing." - Richard Jochelson, University of Manitoba  "As a First Nations person and a former Court of Appeal judge, I have lived at the intersection of Canadian law and its often-painful history. I thought I knew the story of the RCMP—but Red Alert is a revelation that left me distressed and, at the same time, somewhat optimistic. For anyone who cares about justice, truth, and the soul of this country, Roach's words are a haunting, necessary must-read." - Hon. Harry S. LaForme, Indigenous Lawyer  "The past decade has seen countless reports calling for reform of the RCMP yet very little has changed. This book shines a spotlight on this colossal failure to act. In addition to laying bare the many problems within the RCMP, Kent Roach outlines practical and achievable pathways to change. Red Alert is a wake-up call that has the potential to spark broader demands for change and force real action at last." - Naiomi Metallic, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University"Kent Roach, uses his finely tuned analytic scalpel, via a focus on the RCMP, to provide a trenchant analysis of challenges facing public policing today. He offers an insightful vision that reimagines Canadian policing, both 'high' and 'low', as multi-nodal and multi-tiered. Implementing this vision, as Roach makes clear, will require tenacity, foresight and the courage to confront deeply entrench and deeply partisan vested interests." - Clifford Shearing, Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Toronto, and the Australian National University"A thoughtful and comprehensive blueprint to reimagine RCMP and Indigenous policing in Canada." - David M. Tanovich, University of Windsor

• 1. The RCMP's Existential Crises2. Too Many Massacres: The Contract Policing of Rural and Remote Canada3. Too Many Deaths: Policing and Community Safety in Indigenous Communities4. Red Alert: Federal High Policing of National Security and Organized Crime5. The Hope: Better Policing6. The Worry: Deteriorating Policing7. "As goes Depot, so goes the RCMP"AcknowledgmentsIndex

Kent Roach, CM, FRSC is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eighteen books including Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change, shortlisted for both the Balsillie and Donner Prizes for best book in public policy. He has conducted research for public inquiries on policing including the Arar, Air India, Ipperwash, Public Order Emergency, and Toronto Missing Persons inquiries and served as chair of the RCMP’s Management Advisory Board. He received the Molson Prize in 2017 for contributions to the social sciences and humanities.

"In Red Alert, Kent Roach provides a rigorous and timely analysis of the existential crises facing the RCMP. The book's evidence-based blueprint for institutional reform makes it a significant contribution to public policy and an essential text for scholars and practitioners concerned with the future of Canadian justice. Red Alert is an indispensable wake-up call about the need for systemic reform of Canadian policing." - Richard Jochelson, University of Manitoba  "As a First Nations person and a former Court of Appeal judge, I have lived at the intersection of Canadian law and its often-painful history. I thought I knew the story of the RCMP—but Red Alert is a revelation that left me distressed and, at the same time, somewhat optimistic. For anyone who cares about justice, truth, and the soul of this country, Roach's words are a haunting, necessary must-read." - Hon. Harry S. LaForme, Indigenous Lawyer  "The past decade has seen countless reports calling for reform of the RCMP yet very little has changed. This book shines a spotlight on this colossal failure to act. In addition to laying bare the many problems within the RCMP, Kent Roach outlines practical and achievable pathways to change. Red Alert is a wake-up call that has the potential to spark broader demands for change and force real action at last." - Naiomi Metallic, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University"Kent Roach, uses his finely tuned analytic scalpel, via a focus on the RCMP, to provide a trenchant analysis of challenges facing public policing today. He offers an insightful vision that reimagines Canadian policing, both 'high' and 'low', as multi-nodal and multi-tiered. Implementing this vision, as Roach makes clear, will require tenacity, foresight and the courage to confront deeply entrench and deeply partisan vested interests." - Clifford Shearing, Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Toronto, and the Australian National University"A thoughtful and comprehensive blueprint to reimagine RCMP and Indigenous policing in Canada." - David M. Tanovich, University of Windsor

• 1. The RCMP's Existential Crises2. Too Many Massacres: The Contract Policing of Rural and Remote Canada3. Too Many Deaths: Policing and Community Safety in Indigenous Communities4. Red Alert: Federal High Policing of National Security and Organized Crime5. The Hope: Better Policing6. The Worry: Deteriorating Policing7. "As goes Depot, so goes the RCMP"AcknowledgmentsIndex