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.
There’s an incorrect-assumtion in there, I think…
IF one sees a graph of crimes committed,
say one depicts numbers-of-crimes as the Y-axis, & severity-of-crimes as the X-axis,
THEN one’s going to see that the most crimes are minor, right?
there’s going to be a powerlaw ruling the relationship between numbers-of-crimes & severity-of-crime: the greater the severity, the fewer-instances of it…
Now … mix-in the problem that living-wage isn’t a legal-right in any jurisdiction in North America…
AND mix-in the problem that white-collar-crime isn’t prosecuted the way that blue-collar-crime is ( theft which causes the disemployment of multiple people will not likely result in prison-time, but multiple retail-thefts will be more likely to do so )
What the economic-system itself becomes, then, is a “conveyer belt producing criminals”, in some sense…
& the single greatest indicator of whether a person’s going to be charged with crime is whether they’ve already been charged with a crime…
Remember the now-discontinued “scared straight” program, or whatever it was called?
Apparently it backfired: when you aquaint youth with jail, you normalize it, so you’ve moved the frame-of-reference, & now criminality is much more normal than it had-been, in their minds, so … they’re more likely to be going 'round criminaling on ye, see?
I think that the real tough-cases are the ones you’re seeing, the ones who don’t rehabilitate, & the actual most-cases isn’t them.
( I also wish there was some systematic get-lives-out-from-criminality’s-churn mechanism like “Doing Time Doing Vipassana” the documentary showed really works, for some people )
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