Thoughts not solutions........
Lemon: Miller, Toronto and Gun Crime
BATB: 'Natch - Blatch Got the Goods
In her column today in the Globe and Mail, "Don't Get Deafened by the Noise: Do Something" Christie Blatchford talks sense about what’s to be done concerning all of the fatal shootings in “the projects” and in drive-by shootings in drug-deals-gone-bad.
She doesn’t target activists’ usual solutions such as gun control, more community policing, or tougher sentences but, rather, brings the tragedies down to a more manageable level, that of the personal lives of the offenders and the young victims--and the adults in their lives.
She points out what Toronto Police Detective Peter Duncan, 31st Division Street Crime Unit, says are the patterns in the lives of high-risk children: “parents who lack basic skills, chief among them, how to parent.” In lectures and in a book he’s writing, Det. Duncan contends that big disasters can be broken down into “multiple small failures,” and that it’s these small failures that need to be taken account of and ‘fixed’ before the deluge. He says “No one can fix everything,” but is convinced that everyone can fix something.
There are responsible adults around, community leaders, “who try to fill the gap left by missing fathers or busy or irresponsible mothers.” And that’s what we need to concentrate on so that we don’t become completely overwhelmed by, as the Blatch puts it, “the sheer size of the mess we collectively have made of things.”
Is there anyone in the media, anywhere, with as much common sense as Blatch? Not... Natch.
2 comments:
that's great. More emphasis needs to be placed on prevention, stopping the need for jailing young people. Call me an optimist, but the effort needs to be made.
What are your thoughts on this I wonder?
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Canadian Press
July 27, 2007 at 6:28 AM EDT
TORONTO — The Ontario government will spend $26-million to hire an additional 200 police officers, Canadian Press has learned.
Premier Dalton McGuinty and Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino will make the announcement Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Sources say 53 of the new officers will go into the provincial police effort to target illegal guns.
In addition, the Ministry of the Attorney General will hire six new prosecutors to better track, investigate and stem the flow of handguns.
The money will begin to flow as soon as provincial police can hire and train the new officers.
Calls for tougher measures to fight gun violence were renewed after four people were shot and killed in Toronto last weekend. The victims included 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, who was attending a birthday party when he was shot in a shootout between two rival gangs."
Seems like some good progress made here.
More cops on the street. Longer sentences, bigger, meaner and more isolated jails where privileges are kept to a minimum and rehabilitation will be the responsibility of the inmate. Leaner and meaner and any $$$ we save will go to those kids, which is the majority, for their education and training. I apologize for the bleeding heart approach but we have tried the opposite of what I suggest and it hasn't worked......
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