 We didn't take them seriously enough".In response to the public outrage over the death of Desrochers, the federal, Quebec, and Montreal governments announced on 5 October 1995 the much vaunted Operation Carcajou, an elite joint task force consisting of the best detectives from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the "Sûreté du Québec" and the "Service de police de la Ville de Montréal" that was supposed to end the biker war swiftly and promptly, and bring to justice those responsible for the death of Desrochers.Operation Carcajou proved to be a fiasco because of politics.