EDIT: If you are downvoting, please explain why. Are you OK with repeat offenders taking up taxpayer funds? Do you disagree that there’s a problem? What is it that you dislike? This isn’t a topic we can ignore.
Not long ago, there was an article posted saying that over 50% of court cases in Ontario are basically dismissed because there aren’t enough resources to handle them.
But every time I read police statements for crimes in my region (Durham), I notice a pattern:
Kaley-Ann FREIER, age 25, of Ajax is charged with: Assault with a Weapon x2 and Fail to Comply with Probation Order x3.
Keith Theodore CONSTANTIN, age 45, poses a significant risk to the community, especially children. This individual has a history of serious criminal convictions, including Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault with a Weapon, Assault with a Weapon, Assault, Robbery, Possession of Explosives, Uttering Threats, and multiple violations of probation orders.
London BOSSIO, age 28 of Whitby is charged with: Robbery; Assault With A Weapon and Breach Of Probation.
Noah COLLINS, age 21, from Brock is charged with: Assault with a Weapon or Imitation Weapon; Assault/Cause Bodily Harm; Fail To Comply With Undertaking and Breach Of Probation
Jalil Luddin SAYAH, age 28, from Oshawa is charged with numerous offences including: Pointing A Firearm x2, Assault with a Weapon or Imitation Weapon x2, Possess Firearm While Prohibited, and Fail To Comply With Release Order x5.
Marten WOODS, age 37, of No Fixed Address is charged with: Uttering Threats to Cause Death or Bodily Harm; Point a Firearm and Breach of Probation.
Michael DE LAURENTIIS, age 41 of no fixed address is charged with Mischief/Damage Property Over $5000, Theft Under, Possess Property Obtained by Crime Under $5000 and Fail to Comply with Probation Order.
Zachary LINTNER, age 33 from Courtice is charged with: Break-and-Enter, Possess Property Obtained by Crime Under $5000, Fail to Comply with Release Order, and Fail to Comply with Probation Order x2.
Joseph DAVRIEUX, age 55 from Clarington is charged with: Break-and-Enter, Dangerous Operation, Flight from Police, Operate a Conveyance While Prohibited, and Fail to Comply with Release Order x2.
These happen daily, and it seems like the all of our resources (police, courts, victim services, etc.) are being drained by individuals who are simply not compatible with society.
What solution(s) do we have that are effective and could be agreed upon by all political parties? This madness has to stop.
I wonder how receptive the public would be to that in North America.
This is a point a struggle to find an answer to. There are people who really can’t be “rehabilitated”, because criminality is their personality.
The traditional justice system has no effective way of managing this type of criminal.
Absolutely.
People who cannot be rehabilitated need to be segregated from the population/community.
Period.
The whole calendar-and-prophecy-by-judge method of sentencing is bananas…
It’s supposed to be when this person is no-longer a threat for this category of problem, then they are rehabilitated/corrected, & can return into the community.
That is event-driven, not calendar-driven.
Nothing in our current method works that way.
It requires that we be able to test, objectively, the current-unconscious-mind of the people in “corrections”.
Brain-imaging, polygraph by true professionals, whatever works.
It’s a totally-different sentencing-paradigm, though.
It’d have to also apply to witnesses, though, including official-witnesses, like police, for it to be trustworthy…
( there is a book on journalism which identifies that in a death-sentence case, the police had the confession of the actual-killer, but ignored it, as they wanted this other guy getting executed, so they got this other guy on death-row…
That isn’t police-services officers, that is officers who are enforcing evil.
A class of journalism-students got that particular wrong-conviction fixed.
“Elements of Journalism”, I’ve no idea if the current edition has the same story, but the edition I read, years ago, did. )
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