The third finding is that in lieu of spending a lot of money looking at activist groups from the outside and attempting to decide who among them might be willing to commit violence, it would be more useful and much less expensive to develop relationships with these mainstream non-violent groups like Greenpeace or even Earth First! in order to be able to say to them “we recognize that your members, as they stand now, are not likely to commit violence, but you might have the best sense or information as to who might have left your group recently because that person was expressing radical views. You might know of members who have gone through a life change in the course of which they may have come into contact with people who advocate violence.
If you were going to embed an RCMP officer in a group long term, that would be incredibly expensive and would raise concerns among the public. Instead, you could say that you don't like that they advocate for vandalism, for instance, but laying that aside, you're primarily interested in stopping people from dying in those kinds of attacks, so you could work together. You want to develop a relationship in which they are free to say that they had a member last year who went through a really hard breakup and moved to Windsor and they want you to know that the member may have been in contact with people who do advocate for more extreme violence.
It's really about picking battles.