...and the left will find the "middle" ground!
Showing posts with label Leftwing Coddling Of Criminals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leftwing Coddling Of Criminals. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Substitute "Actual person who grew up in TORONTO writes"
Society’ doesn’t shoot looters and rioters any more. Apparently that would be ‘uncivilized.’
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
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Unlike, say, this — which $10 says will be the cover of Peter Hitchens’ next book:
UPDATE: Actual person who grew up in Tottenham writes:
For decades in Britain, black and Asian gang culture has been allowed to develop and triumph in the school system. Teachers and social workers are either too physically frightened or too politically correct to intervene, and an increasingly ineffectual police force is tied by “anti-racism” policies to stop the horror. The racism of lowered expectations has led fatuous, liberal, white people to argue that gang culture is somehow part of the black and brown experience, with most of the victims of course being other black and brown people.
In fact this sub-culture despises women, gays, the weak, and anybody who stands in its way. It has no respect for anybody and anything, and is obsessed with promiscuity, violence, and cheap greed. Idiot politicians have done little, because they can afford to live in areas usually untouched by the violence and anarchy.
Sunday, January 09, 2011
It's Not Only Chief Blair And Toronto Police Services...
National
What's the price for law and order?
...and we have to give credit to leftwing municipal politicians who over the past couple of decades have caved into municipal unions when it comes to wages and benefits and to leftwing social engineers who have turned police officers into social workers with guns and have made political correctness and cultural diversity the agenda rather than enforcement of the law and the judicial system.
What's the price for law and order?
...and we have to give credit to leftwing municipal politicians who over the past couple of decades have caved into municipal unions when it comes to wages and benefits and to leftwing social engineers who have turned police officers into social workers with guns and have made political correctness and cultural diversity the agenda rather than enforcement of the law and the judicial system.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Is Anyone Surprised...
...that the bastion of the leftwing, THE STAR, is giving Sewell a platform .
John Sewell, cop hater: Grant
By Gary Grant
Former Toronto mayor and local crank John Sewell’s attack on the police isn’t constructive criticism or well meaning. It is just a long-time cop hater being a cop hater.
Questions for police over budget
The Toronto Police Services Board has put off making a decision on the force’s ever-expanding budget after Mayor Rob Ford’s allies questioned the cost of the second-most expensive agency in the city
...the police budget could be reduced if the Mayor tells the Toronto Police Services Board to get our of the social welfare business and concentrate on crime; ie: murders, attacks on citizens, Gangstas, drug dealers, etc.
John Sewell, cop hater: Grant
By Gary Grant
Former Toronto mayor and local crank John Sewell’s attack on the police isn’t constructive criticism or well meaning. It is just a long-time cop hater being a cop hater.
Questions for police over budget
The Toronto Police Services Board has put off making a decision on the force’s ever-expanding budget after Mayor Rob Ford’s allies questioned the cost of the second-most expensive agency in the city
...the police budget could be reduced if the Mayor tells the Toronto Police Services Board to get our of the social welfare business and concentrate on crime; ie: murders, attacks on citizens, Gangstas, drug dealers, etc.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Needs Clarification...
...is The Star advocating multi-teired police; one for citizens, one for immigrants, one for visitors/tourists, etc.
G20 summit probe: A bad law that bred illegality
Wed Dec 8 2010
Protection of foreign dignitaries is not an excuse for ignoring the constitutionally entrenched rights of Canadians. (19)
G20 summit probe: A bad law that bred illegality
Wed Dec 8 2010
Protection of foreign dignitaries is not an excuse for ignoring the constitutionally entrenched rights of Canadians. (19)
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Black murders a Toronto issue: Editorial
By Toronto Sun
Why is it that 25 of the 28 people shot to death this year in Toronto are black?
...the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree:
BBC News AMERICAS Jamaica murder rate soars
By Toronto Sun
Why is it that 25 of the 28 people shot to death this year in Toronto are black?
...the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree:
BBC News AMERICAS Jamaica murder rate soars
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Let The Facts Speak For Themselves...
100 more police: Are they really needed? Wed Nov 17 2010
A case can be made that Toronto’s existing police force doesn’t need to be increased, especially given the falling crime rate.
FACT!
Police investigating north-end shooting homicide
Wed Nov 17 2010
Toronto police are investigating a Wednesday afternoon shooting homicide in the city's north end that left a youth dead inside a community housing property's doors.
A case can be made that Toronto’s existing police force doesn’t need to be increased, especially given the falling crime rate.
FACT!
Police investigating north-end shooting homicide
Wed Nov 17 2010
Toronto police are investigating a Wednesday afternoon shooting homicide in the city's north end that left a youth dead inside a community housing property's doors.
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Is The Victim Less Dead...
...because of the age of the murderer? It is a ludicrous question but so is this argument that because of the age of the murderer sentencing should be reduced.
Lawyers argue for lighter sentence in Rengel murder
Lawyers argue for lighter sentence in Rengel murder
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Let's Keep Our Eye On The Ball...
...David Chen!
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Chen victory a defeat for judicial bureaucracy
In the decades since the Donald Marshall case forced upon Canadians the realization that the criminal justice system could make terrible mistakes, the news of wrongful convictions has become rather more common. The latest news from British Columbia, that Ivan Henry was acquitted after spending 26 years in prison, is regrettably another case on a long list. Mr. Henry was not a model citizen before his arrest, but it still beggars belief that his forcible appearance in a police line-up, restrained by two officers, was not considered an obvious tainting of the process.
The police and crown prosecutors do not set out to throw innocent people in jail. Those who have even a passing familiarity with the system appreciate the good work our police and crowns do under difficult circumstances. A grateful citizenry is inclined to give the police and prosecutors the benefit of the doubt, yet the experience of recent years suggests that more careful scrutiny is in order.
The police and prosecutors comprise our criminal justice bureaucracy, and are not immune from the same temptations that all bureaucracies face – whether public sector, private sector, or even the world of churches, charities and non-profits. We know from many cases that the police and prosecutors can have institutional biases, be inclined to disregard or suppress evidence which challenges entrenched opinions, defend obtuse rules over common sense, engage in turf battles, cover up failings and resist attempts at reform.
The shameful conduct of the Vancouver RCMP in the death of Robert Dziekański and the subsequent falsehoods peddled to the incurious prosecutors were an example of the system at its worst, requiring as it did a judicial inquiry to tell the truth. Another judicial inquiry was required to sort out the horrific injustice of innocent Ontario parents – over a period of twenty years! – being falsely convicted of sexual assaulting and murdering their own children. It’s been two years since the release of that report, and it seems to have been forgotten. What should have shaken the criminal justice system to its foundations passed instead with no great consequences for the police and prosecutors at fault. And just weeks ago a judge found that police who illegally vetted potential jury lists – revealed by National Post reporting – really had done no harm.
When abuses of power are found in the criminal justice system, the response is often the classic bureaucratic one: Everything is in good order and whatever problems were exposed were isolated incidents of no great consequence.
Hence the significance of the David Chen case. Friday’s acquittal on all counts by a Toronto judge saved the system from becoming an international laughingstock. The ridicule of recent weeks heaped upon the police and the bewilderingly out-of-touch prosecutors had been rightly deserved. The interventions of the crown prosecutor, Eugene McDermott were utterly fantastical, as if David Chen were a vigilante spraying gunfire in the streets rather than a hardworking grocer who simply held a rebellious miscreant for five minutes until police arrived.
Why then was David Chen tried at all, let alone with the inflammatory rhetoric of the prosecution? Why would the prosecutors stoop so low as to cut a deal with a lifetime shoplifter, Anthony Bennett, to procure the testimony of a serial liar against a by-all-accounts honest immigrant entrepreneur? This was driven by an apparent bureaucratic instinct for self-defence, rather than any concern for Mr. Chen’s right to defend himself and his property.
The Chen case showed up the ineffectiveness of the police regarding shoplifting, as Mr. Bennett has been robbing Chinatown merchants for years. The police have their turf, and even when unable to keep it secure, they want no competition from citizen’s arrests. The prosecutors were happy to go along with this, likely thinking that a Chinese grocer was no match for their almost limitless power. So they did to Mr. Chen what bureaucracies often do, bring down the full weight of their power on an individual, counting on him to roll over and concede rather than fight back. Hence the ludicrous kidnapping charge they originally filed, before public outrage forced them to back down.
Mr. Chen decided to fight. Facing prosecutorial overkill, he declined to plea it out and go away quietly. A city and a country fed up with bureaucracies grinding up citizens rallied to Mr. Chen’s side.
Mr. Chen has been rightfully acquitted. The lesson though should remain – a badge and a gown do not prevent bureaucratic foolishness and abuse of power.
National Post
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Chen victory a defeat for judicial bureaucracy
In the decades since the Donald Marshall case forced upon Canadians the realization that the criminal justice system could make terrible mistakes, the news of wrongful convictions has become rather more common. The latest news from British Columbia, that Ivan Henry was acquitted after spending 26 years in prison, is regrettably another case on a long list. Mr. Henry was not a model citizen before his arrest, but it still beggars belief that his forcible appearance in a police line-up, restrained by two officers, was not considered an obvious tainting of the process.
The police and crown prosecutors do not set out to throw innocent people in jail. Those who have even a passing familiarity with the system appreciate the good work our police and crowns do under difficult circumstances. A grateful citizenry is inclined to give the police and prosecutors the benefit of the doubt, yet the experience of recent years suggests that more careful scrutiny is in order.
The police and prosecutors comprise our criminal justice bureaucracy, and are not immune from the same temptations that all bureaucracies face – whether public sector, private sector, or even the world of churches, charities and non-profits. We know from many cases that the police and prosecutors can have institutional biases, be inclined to disregard or suppress evidence which challenges entrenched opinions, defend obtuse rules over common sense, engage in turf battles, cover up failings and resist attempts at reform.
The shameful conduct of the Vancouver RCMP in the death of Robert Dziekański and the subsequent falsehoods peddled to the incurious prosecutors were an example of the system at its worst, requiring as it did a judicial inquiry to tell the truth. Another judicial inquiry was required to sort out the horrific injustice of innocent Ontario parents – over a period of twenty years! – being falsely convicted of sexual assaulting and murdering their own children. It’s been two years since the release of that report, and it seems to have been forgotten. What should have shaken the criminal justice system to its foundations passed instead with no great consequences for the police and prosecutors at fault. And just weeks ago a judge found that police who illegally vetted potential jury lists – revealed by National Post reporting – really had done no harm.
When abuses of power are found in the criminal justice system, the response is often the classic bureaucratic one: Everything is in good order and whatever problems were exposed were isolated incidents of no great consequence.
Hence the significance of the David Chen case. Friday’s acquittal on all counts by a Toronto judge saved the system from becoming an international laughingstock. The ridicule of recent weeks heaped upon the police and the bewilderingly out-of-touch prosecutors had been rightly deserved. The interventions of the crown prosecutor, Eugene McDermott were utterly fantastical, as if David Chen were a vigilante spraying gunfire in the streets rather than a hardworking grocer who simply held a rebellious miscreant for five minutes until police arrived.
Why then was David Chen tried at all, let alone with the inflammatory rhetoric of the prosecution? Why would the prosecutors stoop so low as to cut a deal with a lifetime shoplifter, Anthony Bennett, to procure the testimony of a serial liar against a by-all-accounts honest immigrant entrepreneur? This was driven by an apparent bureaucratic instinct for self-defence, rather than any concern for Mr. Chen’s right to defend himself and his property.
The Chen case showed up the ineffectiveness of the police regarding shoplifting, as Mr. Bennett has been robbing Chinatown merchants for years. The police have their turf, and even when unable to keep it secure, they want no competition from citizen’s arrests. The prosecutors were happy to go along with this, likely thinking that a Chinese grocer was no match for their almost limitless power. So they did to Mr. Chen what bureaucracies often do, bring down the full weight of their power on an individual, counting on him to roll over and concede rather than fight back. Hence the ludicrous kidnapping charge they originally filed, before public outrage forced them to back down.
Mr. Chen decided to fight. Facing prosecutorial overkill, he declined to plea it out and go away quietly. A city and a country fed up with bureaucracies grinding up citizens rallied to Mr. Chen’s side.
Mr. Chen has been rightfully acquitted. The lesson though should remain – a badge and a gown do not prevent bureaucratic foolishness and abuse of power.
National Post
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Pic Says It All...
'Vigilante grocer' found not guilty
By SAM PAZZANO, Courts Bureau
By SAM PAZZANO, Courts Bureau
Judge finds grocer David Chen not guilty
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: In a cliffhanger ruling that mixed references to film noir and pulp fiction, Mr. Justice Ramez Khawly took two hours this morning to get to his ruling: David Chen is not guilty on all charges
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: In a cliffhanger ruling that mixed references to film noir and pulp fiction, Mr. Justice Ramez Khawly took two hours this morning to get to his ruling: David Chen is not guilty on all charges
...who will compensate Chen for the costs involved in this debacle?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
More Of A Travesty Than Sentencing Of Toronto 18 Leader...
Khadr trial: A travesty of justice
Tue Oct 26 2010
Canada’s notorious Omar Khadr finally buckled before a discredited American military tribunal and provided the guilty plea it was set up to elicit. But nothing like justice has been done in this wretched case.
Serving time in Canada would give Khadr a better chance of parole
Toronto 18 leader sentenced to 16 years in prison
Tue Oct 26 2010
Canada’s notorious Omar Khadr finally buckled before a discredited American military tribunal and provided the guilty plea it was set up to elicit. But nothing like justice has been done in this wretched case.
Serving time in Canada would give Khadr a better chance of parole
Toronto 18 leader sentenced to 16 years in prison
Friday, October 22, 2010
Why Concurrent Sentencing?
IMHO all sentences should have been consecutive which would ensure Williams would never be considered for release.
'Sadosexual' killer Williams gets 2 life sentences
Soon to be ex-Col. Russell Williams was given two life sentences Thursday for horrific crimes he admitted "traumatized" many. Williams will not be eligible for parole for 25 years.
...cheap at any price; why would we there be any appeals? Is there ny doubt he is guilty?
Costs kill death penalty: Bonokoski
By MARK BONOKOSKI, Toronto Sun
If capital punishment were still on the books, a high-noon lynching today of Russell Williams — disgraced colonel, convicted murderer, rapist and sexual deviant — would likely cause little stir among the majority of Canadians.
'Sadosexual' killer Williams gets 2 life sentences
Soon to be ex-Col. Russell Williams was given two life sentences Thursday for horrific crimes he admitted "traumatized" many. Williams will not be eligible for parole for 25 years.
...cheap at any price; why would we there be any appeals? Is there ny doubt he is guilty?
Costs kill death penalty: Bonokoski
By MARK BONOKOSKI, Toronto Sun
If capital punishment were still on the books, a high-noon lynching today of Russell Williams — disgraced colonel, convicted murderer, rapist and sexual deviant — would likely cause little stir among the majority of Canadians.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Ludicrous...
Toss Chen case
By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun
Talk about having egg on their face.
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Rex Murphy On "The David Chen" Travesty Of Justice...
...a must read for the justice officials and police in Toronto.
A cheap act in a mean world
Rex Murphy: Thirty and 40 years ago, it was commonplace back home in Newfoundland. Toward the fall of the year, afternoons and weekends, young men and old would head off into the woods armed with nothing but an axe apiece.
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A cheap act in a mean world
Rex Murphy: Thirty and 40 years ago, it was commonplace back home in Newfoundland. Toward the fall of the year, afternoons and weekends, young men and old would head off into the woods armed with nothing but an axe apiece.
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About Me
- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.