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Originally Posted by jhausner
Our problems right now are simply repeat offenders. If they stopped the revolving doors we'd have even lower crime around. It is funny, I was always told growing up by friends that "If you're going to cause trouble, don't do 1 thing because they'll throw the book at you, do 50."
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this is one million percent the truth.
We had caught a shoplifter and the police had an interaction with him but they had to let him go since there wasn't enough evidence, a few hours later he hit the same area again and the police ended up taking a full report. Mentioned to us that this guy had 50+ charges pending and that what they do is when they get out after their 5 day to 2 year sentence is hit as many places or commit as many crimes as possible because they will just take care of them all at once again. Now if you have had hundreds of interactions with law enforcement and keep doing it again and again, there has to be a point where we say enough is enough, you aren't getting out ever again unless you can prove to us that you are rehabilitated. I don't want to advocate a US style justice system because obviously that doesn't work either but there has to be a point where something has to give.
With so much money being dumped into the DTES/addicts/poverty there has to be a better way. Seemingly the DTES costs more to operate than a federal prison (and seemingly serves a smaller population) and I would say that not very much of that money ends up helping these habitual offenders (whether it be because of addiction, mental illness or both). Then you have these "anarchists" which no doubt have ties to these poverty pimps that are receiving government money trying to ensure the neighborhoods are kept in the dumps and you have problems like this.
I still remember the CTV coverage of the olympic riots and them catching one of the main spokespeople hiding in an alley with some of these masked "anarchists" in a way associating them with these extremist groups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcWKz0knY8