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Newsbot @ Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:00 am

Title: Alberta tells prosecutors: Don't waste time on cases with 'slim chance' of conviction
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: shockedcanadian
Date: 2017-03-08 06:55:30
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shockedcanadian @ Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:00 am

In other words "the security apparatus has backrupted our province. We need to look the other way now on certain charges".

Get in line Alberta, from Ontario to B.C the apparatus is a runaway train.

   



DrCaleb @ Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:03 am

But the government is completely innocent with respect to funding the justice system, right? Everyone is able to access a lawyer, and Legal Aid is well funded, right?

You are a real one trick pony, and the trick isn't even very good. :roll:

   



Thanos @ Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:11 am

shockedcanadian shockedcanadian:
In other words "the security apparatus has backrupted our province. We need to look the other way now on certain charges".

Get in line Alberta, from Ontario to B.C the apparatus is a runaway train.


No, it's more of a case of Austerity Hero conservative politicians over the last forty years not bothering to make sure the number of prosecutors, judges, courtrooms, and prisons required to keep the system operating with some degree of speedy efficiency, kept pace with the increase in population over the years. I'm not surprised in the slightest that you know next to nothing about the details in Alberta considering you know the same zero amount about Ontario or the country in general.

   



shockedcanadian @ Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:27 am

Alberta Debt Clock:

http://www.debtclock.ca/provincial-debt ... ta-s-debt/

$7,000 per citizen

Ontario Debt Clock:

http://www.debtclock.ca/provincial-debtclocks/ontario/

$22,645.00 per citizen

Canadian Debt Clock:

http://www.debtclock.ca/

$17,000 per citizen


Take a look at the growth of the budgets of the RCMP, OPP and TPS. It's been a growth industry, costs have doubled in some jurisdictions in Ontario, absolutely decimating communities and this doesn't even include "special projects" such as the entrapment of two welfare cases out of B.C who had mental issues. A case that the courts threw out on the RCMP, as they charged $1 million in OT alone.

The fact is that it is unsustainable, and many of these sob's are just "playing the game" and they hate hearing the facts because this welfare system feeds many of their obese asses. Get rid of 90% of "covert operatives" who milk the system shamelessly and keep the current uniformed officers who actually work and respond to dangerous situations. That's what Canadians want to see. Identifiable officers who work, not little wee squirrelly creeps walking around like Stasi drones "banking" on the back of the taxpayer.

Texas warned Harper a few yeas ago about the dangers of a ballooning security apparatus budget. If they can cut costs and use common sense with their approach so can Canada. It's not a matter of if but when.

   



DrCaleb @ Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:43 am

Oh noez!

Alberta invests $14.5M into criminal justice system to ease pressures

   



Alta_redneck @ Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:26 pm

DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Oh noez!

Alberta invests $14.5M into criminal justice system to ease pressures


$21M for light bulbs and shower heads.

All the fraud cases will go unpunished because they're to hard to convict. I guess a senior citizen that has been ripped off of their life savings isn't important enough for this government.

But hey they'll get free light bulbs.

   



DrCaleb @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:24 am

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:


$21M for light bulbs and shower heads.

All the fraud cases will go unpunished because they're to hard to convict. I guess a senior citizen that has been ripped off of their life savings isn't important enough for this government.

But hey they'll get free light bulbs.


Should we take the budget for road repairs also and put into repaying every fraud that occurs in the province?

Give your head a shake. The easiest way to not spend a fortune on lawyers is to not do crime. :idea: Doesn't compare to people saving money on their energy bill.

   



herbie @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:43 am

Speaking of fraud did you watch the W5 report about the woman who got taken with the "CRA phone call".
Went to a bunch of stores and bought $25,000 worth of iTunes cards, read off all the numbers to the guy on the phone?
Like Honest To God, you can't save the bone stupid.

And I would assume that other provinces, just like BC for years, don't push cases forward they have little chance of winning.
Should we be like Toronto that has so much money to piss away it can use it for grandstanding like their case against the Emerys?

   



DrCaleb @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:48 am

herbie herbie:
Speaking of fraud did you watch the W5 report about the woman who got taken with the "CRA phone call".
Went to a bunch of stores and bought $25,000 worth of iTunes cards, read off all the numbers to the guy on the phone?
Like Honest To God, you can't save the bone stupid.


No. I usually do something else when stories like that come on. I just can't take that much stupidity, and yelling at the TV doesn't change anything. ;)

herbie herbie:
And I would assume that other provinces, just like BC for years, don't push cases forward they have little chance of winning.
Should we be like Toronto that has so much money to piss away it can use it for grandstanding like their case against the Emerys?


There is a case of selective prosecution, amirite?

   



Lemmy @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:50 am

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DrCaleb @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:56 am

Lemmy Lemmy:
The problem with the Emerys is the nature of these pot dispensaries. They're unregulated and awash in cash which makes them targets for armed robbery.

No one's a bigger pot-legalization proponent than I, but the Emerys and other unlicensed pot distributors are part of the problem, not the solution.


And if they were legal, they could use banks and not have to keep the cash in a large Scrooge McDuck type facility.

Pot dispensaries are illegal, but the right to use MJ is legal for medical reasons. So where can you get legal pot, if places that sell it are illegal? It's a legal hole that the Liberals promised to fill.

In the meantime, choosing to enforce the law with 3 out of the hundreds of dispensaries seems petty to me. Prosecute all, or none. Not just the high profile ones. (see what I did there? ;) )

   



herbie @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:00 pm

Any Superstore has more cash on hand than one of their shops. Which undoubtedly put it in the bank like everyone else.
Street dealers don't have debit or Via, storefront do.

And we all know "It's illegal". The people know the law is wrong, fuck them. When the law is about to change and everyone knows that, and they still enforce it, fuck them even more.
The dispensaries are the solution, not the problem. A new industry, not more merchandise for WalMart or Shoppers Drug or the Provinces or some dick who already has a liquor store getting even more revenue.

   



Lemmy @ Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:05 pm

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herbie @ Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:48 am

$1:
You're missing the problem. It's the amount of cash relative to the likelihood of the cops being called! Because the pot-shops are illegal, the proprietors won't call for help. Ever. So they're being targeted because the robbers know their victims won't involve the police.

I have no idea where you got this idea. You seem to think a dispensary is simply a street corner dealer with a storefront.
If you lobbied for a ridiculously high $30,000 business license you're damn well gonna call the cops if you get held up.

   



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