How does this procedure not get changed? Just completely ridiculous.
So Steve Kenyon steals a minivan and in outracing police kills himself and another innocent man in a car crash. Because he is dead and his family do not wish to have their name tarnished they can request the RCMP to withhold his name. and they do.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum...04246-sun.html
His mother, brothers and girlfriend are left to grieve, and wonder what Kerfoot did to deserve such a senseless death. If the Mounties had their way, Kerfoot's family would forever wonder who killed him.
"How can they do that? I think people should be allowed to know -- we should have a right to know," said his brother Jason Kerfoot.
Because of a ridiculous RCMP policy, the 21-year-old who drove a stolen minivan into oncoming traffic, in a bid to avoid pursuing police, won't ever be officially identified by police.
Thanks to the Edmonton medical examiner, who isn't bound by Mountie protcol, the name was made public anyway, late yesterday: It's Steve Kenyon, according to reports.
To get a sense of how daft, consider that if the family of Mountie killer James Roszko had asked, he would have been kept anonymous following the 2005 quadruple slaying in Mayerthorpe, Alberta.
Criminals often die as a result of their own stupidity and selfish actions -- our national police force has no business protecting their names, no matter who asks.