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Originally Posted by Changing City
You can't - as you know, we don't have elected DAs here. Don't assume there will be significant change in San Francisco with an interim DA filling the post until the 2023 election. "This election does not mean that San Francisco has drifted to the far right on our approach to criminal justice," Mary Jung, a chair of the recall campaign, said in a statement. "In fact, San Francisco has been a national beacon for progressive criminal justice reform for decades and will continue to do so with new leadership." [ CBS News] |
Hey, you need to start somewhere. Get rid of the enablers and those that cause more deaths on the street. You can't do worse than that right? We need to do the same here. There are simply too many enablers and people hooked onto the system. And the rest of the population are just blind while they waddle in their own dreamt-up bliss.
What's with all the self-defeating attitude? Get a real conviction and then stick with it. We don't need to look anywhere else, but inwards at our city's own failure. The worst thing that can happen in a society is for its population not realizing its downslide until its too late.
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Originally Posted by logicbomb
All governments are completely inept. Both left and right.
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You mean our government and not all governments in general right? In this world there are so many other authorities taking the correct paths. What are they doing right that we aren't? The article on San Francisco certainly shines light on that. It is the over-tolerance of the wrongs in our society that has led to what is happening on the streets this day.
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Originally Posted by p78hub
Another excerpt I found compelling:
"A couple of years ago, one of my friends saw a man staggering down the street, bleeding. She recognized him as someone who regularly slept outside in the neighborhood, and called 911. Paramedics and police arrived and began treating him, but members of a homeless advocacy group noticed and intervened. They told the man that he didn’t have to get into the ambulance, that he had the right to refuse treatment. So that’s what he did. The paramedics left; the activists left. The man sat on the sidewalk alone, still bleeding. A few months later, he died about a block away."
We've got the same sort of organizations here with the same mentality. Because letting someone addicted to drugs die on the street, twitching from an overdose or succumbing to the effects of an untreated infection is somehow more humane than, God forbid, actually helping them.
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It is really sad that our society keeps learning from those that fail. I see too many parallels with San Francisco.
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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
What will be your excuse when the BC Libs get in and nothing changes?
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Containing the rot is way better than letting the rot spread out of hand. As an enabler, you are certainly not helping.
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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth
easy .... John Whore-again. it all starts at the top and the Premier sets the tone for this province and puts all the key players in place ... ie Attorney General, Solicitor General, etc and when the top is rotten to the core and all about virtue signalling you are screwed.
And we are screwed under a Whore-again lead NDP.
The Solicitor General is majorly at fault also he should be pushing crown to actually do something. As he is the head of crown! I wouldn't trust Mike Farnworth to dig a ditch let alone run the provincial courts.
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Certainly. One of the worst decisions was to use tax-payer money to buy up budget hotels in Victoria and Vancouver, then turn them into instant slums without taking further positive actions or follow-ups. Now those neighbourhoods they are in are essentially write-offs, devoid of prior vibrancies except worsening rot and decay. Thanks NDP! The longer they stay in power, the more instant slums will be created.
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