Canada is a haven for criminals from other countries. Our system makes it hell for foreign countries to enforce extradition treaties we have signed with them.
How Canada deals with these and other fugitives is heavily influenced by politics, judicial activism and high-powered extradition lawyers. These and other factors combine to build delays into the Canadian process that throw it out of sync with its treaty partners.
Why do we even allow these people into our country in the first place? What is this costing the tax payers to keep these undesirables in our country? Give them a one way ticket back to where they came from to face the music for the crimes they are accused of.
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Dion had the following to say today:
Updated Fri. Jan. 19 2007 5:03 PM ET
Canadian Press
MONTREAL -- Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says Canada should follow the lead of the United States and France in protecting minority communities against hate crimes.
He called on governments to give them more funding
Correct me if I am wrong, but do we not already have laws in the books that "protect minority communities against hate crimes"? What kind of funding should we be giving them? Should we pay for a full time police officer to baby sit every person of a minority group to "protect them"? Is it more important to "protect" a minority than anyone else in this country? Are we not all equal?
How about we have laws that protect EVERYONE not just minority groups. Increase funding to our law enforcement so that perhaps they can protect EVERYONE better. Even with all the funding in the world, police forces cannot be everywhere all the time. Criminals will do what they do until they are caught.
Here is a sad example of how we have to equip our RCMP (sorry no link as this is not common knowledge... yet...). A small bedroom community just outside of Edmonton has had a major drug problem. The small RCMP detachment there did not have a budget to purchase the equipment required to do the undercover/surveillance work needed to bring the culprits to justice. One of the local community groups held a fund raiser and was able to raise enough to purchase everything on the RCMP wish list. That group could not legally donate these items to the RCMP detachment so they are loaning the equipment to them instead. In recent months the RCMP have made many arrests and have curtailed much of the drug activity in this community largely due to the equipment provided by the local group.
Now why on earth in a country as wealthy as Canada, does a local community group have to loan the RCMP equipment to do their jobs? I'm just asking....
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Thinking of putting in a fancy new alarm system in your home. Think again as it more than likely is of little use and a total waste of money in more ways than one.
Nearly all of the burglar alarms police are summoned to – about 80,000 annually – are false, a Star analysis found. And the small number of valid alarms rarely help catch thieves, a fact police and alarm industry officials acknowledge.
In 2005, the most recent year data is available, between 97 and 99 per cent of alarms police attended in the GTA were false, a number that has been relatively constant for years. With the market for home security systems growing rapidly, alarm industry officials say the problem isn't going away.
In spite of an overall decrease in burglaries in recent years, homeowners have been steadily buying alarms, bolstering a unique, unregulated industry in which private companies rely on the taxpayer-funded police force to buoy their service.
The cost of responding to false calls has been hefty: Most forces place the cost of attending a routine alarm call (local policy involves sending two officers and sometimes two cruisers) at between $150 and $300, meaning false alarms in the GTA in 2005 ate up between $11.8 million and $23.7 million.
Although a loud alarm may send the would be thieves running it is no better at doing that than a large dog barking. At least the dog will welcome you home with its tail wagging with excitement. Much better than the alarm accidentally going off when you don't shut it off in the minimal time it allows.
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As of today I am on holidays til the new year. That alone puts a happy face on me at least. My plan for the next ten days is to blog only Happy Thoughts for this duration. This might not be easy, as the media focuses on the bad news for the most part. Today I will start off with something that I know is near and dear to many peoples hearts. Kid's and slurpees! As a diabetic, this one was a difficult choice for me as I am torn between my old love of slurpees and the knowledge I now have of the evil they are. But hey! They are only kid's once and we should allow them to be kid's and enjoy the finer things in life too. MMMMMMMMM.... Slurpees....
In cooperation with 7-Eleven, the Redlands Police Department wants to recognize and encourage good behavior among local youth. According to police spokesman Carl Baker, Redlands police officers will be "ticketing" youth they observe doing good deeds or exhibiting positive behavior through "Operation Chill."
The "Operation Chill" coupons are actually coupons good for a free 12-ounce Slurpee at any participating 7-Eleven store. Each officer in the department has been issued a supply of tickets and will be on the lookout for good behavior.
I think this is a great idea and I truely hope that 7-11 promotes this idea everywhere they have a store. As a matter of fact, I am going to fire off a little email with the link to this story to our chief of police Mike Boyd, as soon as I am done writting this post. Which is now.
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