In part one of Pre Occupied (which you can listen to here) we focused on the history of how the RCMP came into existence in Canada. The RCMP's early beginnings with the "Great March West" began a centuries-long struggle between the RCMP and the Indigenous peoples protecting the land they lived on.

Part one also reviewed the Inuit Tag Program, Residential Schools, and Winnipeg General Strike among other topics.

In part two, Pre Occupied studies the RCMP's more recent history and specifically media relations since the advent of the cell phone and wide use of social media.

As mentioned in part one of Pre Occupied, the RCMP have done well to craft an image around the world as Dudley Do-Right and the benign Mountie as a do-gooder who is fair and true. But that reputation does not apply to all Canadians. Indigenous relations with the RCMP has been a contentious topic since the creation of the RCMP in 1873 (then, the North West Mounted Police).

This podcast looks at how RCMP propaganda kept this idea of the mountie alive. In this episode, we discuss some of the infamous controversies and criticisms in recent RCMP history, landmark land right cases in BC history, indigenous-led programs solving the problems of MMIWG when the cops wouldn't help, and the public's perception of the RCMP this year.