Law Enforcement - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.....

[Rob MacLennan]

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As if that wasn't bad enough, Global News has revealed that over 100 inmates have been improperly released from prisons since 2021.

Dozens of inmates released from Ontario jails every year because of ‘errors or oversight’ | Globalnews.ca

The corrections system is regularly making "errors" in who it releases from overcrowded and understaffed jails. The government insists a capacity crisis is not the issue.

globalnews.ca

 

[nobbie48]

I'd like to see someone make a Charter challenge based on the fact that they just increased the ability to hold more people, for more time, rather than improve the Charter Right to trial within reasonable time.

What peeves me is the victim's rights to resolution being flushed down the toilet.

 

[nobbie48]

It's a housing crisis that is causing what we're seeing. Sure, grab them and lock them up for 24-72hrs and then they come right back out into what they were already in. Hopelessness and homelessness. We need to focus on housing first. It's proven time and time again that when given the choice, most people will choose a home and stability. I'm not saying 100% will come out the addiction.

It's interesting how in the business world, they focus so much on root cause analysis. But when it comes to society, we just let people rot in the streets instead of focusing on the root cause of why they're there in the first place.

And, how can you expect them to do something in privacy when they have no private place?

Is there a housing shortage or a shortage of personal money to buy a house?

The issues, consumerized brain washing, entitlement, education, psychology, expectations etc are too large to fit on this forum but are being debated on the equivalent of bumper stickers.

 

[Gaoler]

And how short staffed are you guys? It's easy to build new jails, but it's a challenge to just staff the ones we already have.

Let me put it this way...
There are many days when everyone in my working group is on overtime.
Most days at least have of us are.
There are frequent lockdowns and cancelations of programs due to staffing shortages.
Part of the problem these days isnt just not hiring enogh people.
It's also partly due to absences due to injury and other workplace incidents.

 

[Dirty Frank]

What would you like them to do?

A little Discretion perhaps, standing on a crowded sidewalk on main street and proudly puffing away on your meth pipe is inappropriate behaviour regardless of your station in life.
Acting out like that should earn you a time out to evaluate your decisions. IMO.

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