[mrandish]

Perhaps I'm jaded but I can't help seeing a subtext in reports like these which goes something like, "Large, institutional national policing agency in an era of historically positive trends in most significant crime metrics funds report forecasting alarming trends which will require increasing both funding and political influence of large national policing agency."

[notatoad]

I don't think you're jaded, i think that's a pretty accurate description of this report. I'd summarize it as "the RCMP thinks the world is terrible, and the only solution is more cops."

It's good to read this report in the context of this HN link from a couple weeks ago: "Institutions tend to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863