It's a tough call whether this is a good or bad thing.

On the one hand, if the local RCMP were apprised of the situation and failed to act, then you can understand the locals' frustration and the taking of matters into their own hands, after all it's their own children being corrupted.

On the other hand vigilante justice can make mistakes.

The worst aspect of this, as I see it, is that it provides the Stephen Harper government with ammunition to further their right wing law-and-order agenda; get tough on cime, more prisons, tougher sentences etc. A strategy which, as we see in the US, does absolutely nothing to reduce crime.