Even those who are far from having "far-left anti-police sentiment" acknowledge freely  that  the RCMP has broken the law countless times during its existence.  Your comment about "the honourable work 99.9% of Mounties do day in and day out..." stretches the truth to the breaking point.  Perhaps you have never heard the names Ian Bush and Robert Dziekanski. Maybe you aren't aware of the fact that the RCMP has meddled without cause in legitimate political activities.  In 1973, the RCMP stole the Parti Quebecois membership lists in an egregious display of paranoia and disdain for democracy. The RCMP's track record of casual disregard for the rule of law and its spying on law-abiding citizens are just two reasons that the force is held in contempt by many Canadians. The reason that "Whenever anyone in the RCMP makes a mistake, its gets plastered all over the newspapers" is that the RCMP makes  too many "mistakes" for them to be ignored.