the thing about police & search warrants being turned down, is that they’ll never know - if they don’t first ask

ask, and you MIGHT receive

Did the HRM police or RCM police even bother to ask for a search warrant and get turned down by a  judge, before they closed the books in 2010 and 2011 on alleged wannabe parent-killer/cop-killer Gabriel Wortman ?

I doubt it - or they would have said so - from day one.

Why not - let the poor judge take all the heat  for the failure to act early and save 24 lives, instead of them getting all the public blame...