TLDR: Businesses in downtown areas across Canada are urging the federal government to reform the bail system and address rising crime, homelessness, and mental health crises, which worsened due to the pandemic. They argue that repeat offenders and inadequate support for vulnerable populations are hurting urban communities and businesses. The International Downtown Association Canada (IDA Canada) is calling for stricter bail conditions for repeat offenders and more funding for homelessness, addiction, and mental health support. Business leaders emphasize that collaborative government action is needed to address these issues effectively.
Realistic_Towel_5534 on
How about we make all drugs legal instead, I’m sure that’s going to help with the crime, the mentally insane and homeless people everywhere.
Key_Mongoose223 on
Look I know 3 strike sentencing is a slippery slope but surely we can agree on a 3 strikes and you lose bail privileges?
And actual enforcement of probation violations would be nice too.
Hicalibre on
They made it the way it is because “it violates their rights”.
Good luck with a solution. Another prediction came true on my end. One I hoped I was wrong on.
BumbleStinger on
I’m Law Enforcement in the GTA.
I’ll touch base on this because it gets brought up a lot, especially with the homeless basically breaking laws and doing whatever they want.
The reason you rarely see these people arrested is because it’s straight up a waste of time for Police. If we arrest someone we have to do hours of paperwork afterwards, attend court and deal with the liability these drug addicts die of an overdose in cells or in your cruiser.
Our Justice System is such a joke that Law Enforcement across Canada is so demoralized it’s stopped us from being proactive. Everyone we arrest gets released, and once we do go to Court the legal consequences RARELY result in the person going to jail.
No one goes to jail in Canada, if you’re going to jail it’s because you murdered someone, killed someone by some other means or seriously harmed someone somehow.
Lastly, there are no consequences for breaching your conditions of release. I arrested someone a few months ago for breaching their conditions of release (bail). It was their 9th time breaching these conditions, I held them for bail and the next morning the judge released them ON THE SAME CONDITIONS.
Our Justice system is a joke, criminals know it and they abuse it.
Minute-League-1002 on
Most of these people have mental health issues and refuse to take meds to help. I would support a clean up program that forces the homeless into a camp shelter with forced detox and recovery and mental health assessments.
They could be given work from those camps that would help their resume.
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TLDR: Businesses in downtown areas across Canada are urging the federal government to reform the bail system and address rising crime, homelessness, and mental health crises, which worsened due to the pandemic. They argue that repeat offenders and inadequate support for vulnerable populations are hurting urban communities and businesses. The International Downtown Association Canada (IDA Canada) is calling for stricter bail conditions for repeat offenders and more funding for homelessness, addiction, and mental health support. Business leaders emphasize that collaborative government action is needed to address these issues effectively.
How about we make all drugs legal instead, I’m sure that’s going to help with the crime, the mentally insane and homeless people everywhere.
Look I know 3 strike sentencing is a slippery slope but surely we can agree on a 3 strikes and you lose bail privileges?
And actual enforcement of probation violations would be nice too.
They made it the way it is because “it violates their rights”.
Good luck with a solution. Another prediction came true on my end. One I hoped I was wrong on.
I’m Law Enforcement in the GTA.
I’ll touch base on this because it gets brought up a lot, especially with the homeless basically breaking laws and doing whatever they want.
The reason you rarely see these people arrested is because it’s straight up a waste of time for Police. If we arrest someone we have to do hours of paperwork afterwards, attend court and deal with the liability these drug addicts die of an overdose in cells or in your cruiser.
Our Justice System is such a joke that Law Enforcement across Canada is so demoralized it’s stopped us from being proactive. Everyone we arrest gets released, and once we do go to Court the legal consequences RARELY result in the person going to jail.
No one goes to jail in Canada, if you’re going to jail it’s because you murdered someone, killed someone by some other means or seriously harmed someone somehow.
Lastly, there are no consequences for breaching your conditions of release. I arrested someone a few months ago for breaching their conditions of release (bail). It was their 9th time breaching these conditions, I held them for bail and the next morning the judge released them ON THE SAME CONDITIONS.
Our Justice system is a joke, criminals know it and they abuse it.
Most of these people have mental health issues and refuse to take meds to help. I would support a clean up program that forces the homeless into a camp shelter with forced detox and recovery and mental health assessments.
They could be given work from those camps that would help their resume.