Let's Do Another Study

The politicos already have a resting place for the latest study........

No worries. We're studying it

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

I have a question for Sun Media readers who don't live in Toronto.

What do politicians in your cities and provinces do when confronted by a serious crime problem?

Here, we study it. To death. Recently, there's been a renewed wave of gun violence in Toronto.

The worst incident was a 15-year-old gunned down inside his high school in one of our "troubled" communities.

So ... we're studying it.

The school board has a $500,000 study going on how to make schools safer, headed by a human rights lawyer. It will report in mid-July. Premier Dalton McGuinty has ordered a study into the causes of youth violence, headed by the retired Ontario chief justice and a former speaker of the legislature.

In fairness, the latter was done at the urging of the murdered boy's family.

Much of the violence involves black people killing each other -- which the left claims is racist to mention and the right claims nobody ever mentions ... every time they mention it.

Thing is, we don't need more studies. We've had dozens. We know what works. We just never do it.

Some folks insist blacks just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and everything will be fine.

To them, there's no such thing as successful, honest, loving, law-abiding, black people ... no racism, no failed social experiments by politicians that created bleak public housing ghettoes. No black kid ever gets hassled by police because he's black and no black person ever misses out on a job based on their street address.

These people live in a dream world.

Sadly, it's the same dream world inhabited by professional activists, some black, some white, who insist every cop is racist, the schools are racist, the courts are racist, business is racist, the media are racist, Canada is racist and so on.

Neither group is any help when it comes to actually combating crime.

On the plus side, gun crime is down from the infamous "summer of the gun" in Toronto in 2005, mainly because our left-wing mayor and city council, in a rare burst of sanity, hired 400 more cops, which gave the police chief the flexibility to start going after the gangs. We had another big police raid yesterday.

Of course, it would help if many of these thugs weren't back on the streets before the cops can finish their paperwork, but hey, that can't be a problem, right? It must be the lack of "gun controls."

While hiring 400 cops actually did some good, it never seems to occur to us that hiring 400 more teachers (or 4,000) to shore up beleaguered public schools in our inner cities, would probably be a wise investment right now.

And does anyone know why Ottawa brings so many people into Canada who can't speak English, provides almost no help to teach them, and then wonders why some turn to crime? Gee, hard to see that one coming, eh?

Finally, black men who father babies and abandon the mothers increase the chances their male sons will become gangsters, and black women who have these children, knowing the man won't be around, do themselves, their child and society no favours.

But according to our lib/left politicians (mayor, premier, etc.) we shouldn't discuss that.

Right. Maybe we should study it.