Die Wahlkampagne hat das Kriminalität für die Carney -Regierung zum Sehenswürdigkeit gemacht
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/election-campaign-has-made-crime-top-of-mind-for-carney-government/article_b30cb55c-2b6c-486a-b732-a45e4e19ec0c.html
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I think giving judges more tools to deal with repeat offenders might not be a bad place to start. I’m sure with the election over Postmedia will be less inclined to be covering every single person being released due to technicalities, leaving out important information and context in order to elicit the largest emotional reaction from their readers, but it was touching on a real issue that seems like it could be an easy fix for the government.
Harpers mandatory minimum were obviously poorly written and too vague, but maybe a more sober less ideological take? One that focuses on things like sexual predators or violent crime and less on petty drug dealers?
The only crime that aggressive my day to day life is thr collusion of the ultra rich to drive up my cost of living, while suppressing wages.
Deal with that and most of the rest will decline.
Carney knows if attention focuses on domestic issues his popularity will decline pretty past as we saw with labour in the uk.
There ought to be bail guidelines and sentencing guidelines published which are automatically considered reasonable, and for which a departure needs to be explicitly justified.
If someone is caught red-handed stabbing someone at random, they shouldn’t be getting bail any time soon. If a judge can justify giving bail, they need to explain in detail why the default per the guidelines should be departed from.
Because as it stands, [these criminals are being released the very next day.](https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/04/yaletown-stabbing-18-year-old-charged/)
A lot of bullshit has been stirred up by Pierre, actually same with a straight face that he would override the constitution for situations where murderers need to spend more time in jail. So many people got so stirred up about something that very rarely happens and isn’t the problem Pierre purported it to be. Some criminology experts, like people who actually have studied crime, not cops, and show you statistics about ways to prevent crimes from happening in the first place, and that just because you read one bad story about something that happened in your city over was delicious enough to get attention across the country, does not mean that that sort of thing is happening on a daily basis in every city in Canada.
Also, lumping “crime” into one big group is not going to be an effective way to find solutions or keep people safer. And unless you want to have incarceration rates like the US, which includes plenty of people being wrongly in prison or having to wait years in jail because they can’t afford bail, going to have a shit ton of people behind bars that don’t deserve to be there.
So many people want to push for locking people up and throwing away the key that they have no understanding about how a violent offender who sees no hope of parole or even being downgraded to a lower risk institution eventually starts to think it frig it, there’s no hope, I might as well do whatever I want while I’m in here. That means more crime in jail. It means more inmate on inmate violence. And it means more violence experienced by correctional staff. Treat people like animals and they act like animals. Dangle a little bit of hope, and the ones that can control themselves actually try to stay out of trouble while they do their time. And that’s a much safer work environment for correctional staff.