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Why St. John’s Pride Banned Uniformed Police
“We need to find a medium where we can co-exist and have that kind of healthy dialogue. Without that, I question where we go from here.”
Rhea Rollmann
June 7, 2021

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RNC Partnership May Be Over, but SHOP is Busier than Ever
"As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They're oversurveilled and they’re underprotected.”
Rhea Rollmann
December 3, 2020
News
The Snelgrove Cycles: What was Done and What was Lost
Each trial is its own contained drama, but it is also a link in the chain of our laws.
September 29, 2020
InvestigationLongreadNews
Constabulary and Critics Continue Tense Coexistence
Rhea Rollmann
March 1, 2020
InvestigationLongreadNews
Don’t Cross Newfoundland and Labrador’s Thick Blue Line
Rhea Rollmann
October 11, 2019
Commentary
The Gossip Mill: 25 Years after the Village Mall Affair
March 4, 2018
Uncategorized
Police need to end Operation Northern Spotlight
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local forces are putting workers at risk.
November 2, 2017
Policing the RNC
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Policing the RNC
A police services board could help address challenges facing the RNC and should be given serious consideration.
July 20, 2017
Pride, visibility, and the blue uniform
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Pride, visibility, and the blue uniform
The controversy over police presence at the St. John's Pride parade has revealed more about the politics of solidarity than some of us wanted to…
July 28, 2016
Politically Speaking
#DonDunphy: Cooler heads prevail
Rationally approaching delicate matters in the public interest, especially those as sensitive as the Don Dunphy shooting, is the most effective way to gain the…
April 24, 2015
To Each Their Own
Officer’s letter in Don Dunphy killing inflames controversy
The contents of a leaked letter allegedly written by the RNC officer who shot and killed Mitchell's Brook resident Don Dunphy earlier this month reveals…
April 13, 2015
To Each Their Own
The RNC recruitment ad: pretty film, marketing disaster
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's new recruitment ad backfires in all the worst ways, and undermines a lot of really good work they’ve done recently
October 21, 2014
Power and Dissent
RNC have lost the plot
Who are the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary trying to recruit with their new video? How well do they understand the community?
October 19, 2014