Attitude of Police Authority (cont’d)
Once one steps into Alberta, one notices that the police attitude is completely different. In fact, the situation of the caves located within the cities is not so different from that in BC, because they are regulated by the city police. However, those located outside the city, Calgary, for instance, are subject to much stricter regulations. This is because they are under the surveillance of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police whose attitude is much more rigorous compared to town police. Mounted Police are similar to the military police; they have strictly fair policies and scorn taking the golden-colour (money) under the table or cigars. They sometimes raid caves and sentence them one after another. Even those devil-kinds are helpless with them. Once you are blindsided by a team of mounted officers you can do nothing but give in. No tricks work for them so devils pay the fine as ordered. Especially Calgary is very strict about selling alcohol at caves, even if police temporarily tolerate their businesses, and its caves sometimes receive long lectures.
Regulations of alcohol are strict in Edmonton and Saskatoon districts. Same in Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw. Caves in those places undergo hardship and ultimately are expelled after causing alcohol-related troubles.
Apparently Fernie gave very strict attention to pimps. For example, police would find a man—it does not matter whether it was during the daytime such as two or three o’clock in the afternoon and whether the man is a client, cook, or a straight businessman from the outside—and take him to the police station without giving him a justification to do so and instead give him an earful and lecture. This happens without Fernie being under the jurisdiction of mounted police. The town police do this.
After the Great Fire in last August, the fellows like Umino, Makino and Tomita attempted to reconstruct caves by scrambling everywhere for money, but they had a hard time because town police were hard on them.
According to devil-kinds, BC and Manitoba are tolerant but Alberta and Saskatchewan are very difficult as they have strict policies and raids by the Mounted Police. However, even inside the town of Winnipeg in Manitoba is not necessarily tolerant while it is under the jurisdiction of the city police. This means that the tolerance and stringency are not solely determined by the presence of the Mounted Police.