afitzy
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They didn’t require the names of Fowler and Deese to put out a warning to travellers that they needed to be cautious.
This part from the article, they completely ignore that people became interested because it was realized HOW they died, because realistically it was much more than a “suspicious death”.
It wasn't until Friday, July 19, after Australian police announced the names of the victims, that RCMP distributed descriptions and photos of the pair.
And according to RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoiet, that's when public information started to flow in.
"It wasn't until they were identified that people seemed to take interest," Shoiet said.
IMO the Shoiet comment about public interest should be irrelevant to the fact that the information surrounding the circumstances of the deaths should have been shared with the public immediately due to involved safety issues. I think it was presumptuous of the RCMP to not put the info out such as it was and to then allow the public to makes its own choices as to how to proceed.
Playing out what the RCMP decided to do, can you imagine if this had been a spree killing episode up and down the Alaska Highway and there were a series of horrific events over the entire 3 days period it took to identify the victims and another 2-3 days to classify the event as related to "gun violence".
People driving in the area would have been sitting ducks and had no idea what was going on because there had been no announcement from the RCMP. Just writing this now I hope there is an investigation sometime down the line as to how to handle public safety emergency announcements.
It seems like the RCMP didn't want to put out any information about the situation until after the bodies were identified. It just seems if there is a potential safety issue that this would be more important than making sure the public had the names of the murdered victims.
Would the public awareness of a potential safety issue or 'interest' as Shoiet claimed have even existed if the Aussies hadn't shared the information with the press? My bet is that the Aussies saw clearly what was happening and recognized that the safety issue was real and did what they did to put the info out into the public domain. Thank goodness.
Is Shoiet saying that RCMP only responds with information if the public is taking an interest in a situation? I really hope this isn't what was meant.....
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