The numbers tell the tale of a city where thanks to the 12 years of the NDP's "holistic approach" and a clueless police chief, criminals have no fear of cops and think they have a human right to commit crimes.
5 - the number of homicide cases in 2011 with no arrests and seemingly, no leads.
14, 15, 17, 17 - the ages of accused gun, knife and bear-spray wielding suspects this past week.
12,13,13,14,14,14,15,16,16,16,16,42 - the ages of their (known) victims. Think about how many teens across the city were terrorized, and the effect on their families and friends.
#33 - the Exchange District drive-by shooting where police are begging for tips.
# 35 - the most recent homicide count, the latest victim is now being canonized as a troubled homeless man found fatally injured in a blazing abandoned apartment block, barely 5 weeks after he himself almost killed an innocent man by bashing his face with a rock.
5 - the number of incidents referenced above that occurred in downtown Winnipeg in the past 7 days, (6 in two weeks if we include killing #33)
With murders, stabbings, shootings, macings, arsons, and break-ins ( including a bloggers' home) are rampant in Winnipeg, and while other cities try to find genuine solutions, in the Tuesday podcast we itemize the unacceptable priorities of our Chief of Police, Keith McCaskill:
- don't answer the non-emergency line;
- launch an encrypted dispatch system to conceal the number of violent emergency calls from reporters and the public, a technology that so endangered cops on the beat it had to be pulled;
- announce a volunteer-staffed fake initiative to compile complaints about "community issues" like poor street lighting that already never get fixed (why have citizens call 311 directly when now police trained volunteers can do it instead ?) ;
- assign cops to enforce diamond lanes on Saturday mornings in the north end - are the buses being delayed on McPhillips ?? - rather than having them investigate real crimes;
- pressure city council to ban snowmobiles, ignoring how maybe, maybe one day in a blizzard (ie 1966, 1986, 1997) the cops will actually need citizens to rally the troops and get doctors and nurses to hospitals;
- and whatever you do, DON'T WARN FAMILIES IN ST. VITAL, RIVERVIEW, DOWNTOWN, THE NORTH END OR WEST KILDONAN THEIR TEENS COULD GET ROBBED AT KNIFE AND/OR GUNPOINT BY A PUNK ON A BIKE.
"The problem is not a lack of policies or examples or approaches. It’s the absolutely shocking failure on the part of Winnipeg’s entire leadership class to act on any of these examples." Brian Kelcey
Listen to the Tuesday podcast:
http://tgctspod.podbean.com/2011/11/15/the-crime-special-chief-mccaskills-priorities-dangerously-out-of-touch/
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Email: TGCTS1@gmail.com
