What Is Day trying to Say

Stats Can numbers on unemployment are a pile of shit. But that's not what that dinosaur, S. Day, is talking about. It's just his right wing ideology talking. If the facts don't fit then change the facts.

I think there was an American politician who recently said that the mass media should be giving her (and other right wing extremists in the Rethugnican Party) easy questions that she already knows the answers to, etc.  just as FoxNews does, etc, etc. Respect for the truth is an alien concept to an ideological zealot.

Catchfire wrote:

[...] You don't get convicted for crimes that don't get reported.

Life imitates art.

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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

My name is not Doris.

This government has just expended a significant amount of political capital citing non-existent complaints and non-existent census detainees to kill the mandatory long form census. So does anyone really believe any amount of logic, fact, or data will convince a government developing $10 billion worth of corrections policy on unreported crime that they have passed beyond stupidity to drooling, slack jawed, nose picking, knuckle-dragging imbecility? That Canadians do not hold their heads in shame that we are represented internationally by these intellectually stunted oafs is beyond me. We ought to be embarrassed by them and we ought to be determined to do better. 

From personal experience, I can say there's truth to the assertion that people aren't reporting as many crimes. Sure, a liberal-permissive judiciary and lax laws are part of this, but the cops are a big part of the problem. I've given up dealing with the police, because they're so apathetic about non-buisiness crimes.

Let me give you an example. I was in a local grocery store, when I had a messenger bag (containing a camera with a few hundred photos, including some of a friend who recently died) stolen from my cart. From where the theft occured and infromation from some store employees, the conclusion was that a store employee stole it. When I contacted the police, the girl at the phone more-or-less said "don't waste my time." Whether or not this was due to a pissing war between the union representing the phone dispatchers and the police (over, among other things, the bungled response to the stabbing of a cop), I don't know. The online reporting went just as pointlessly. The manager, perhaps aware that an employee stole the bag, refused to let me see the footage without the cops being there...who, of course, didn't come. Yet I've seen police arrive within five minutes of someone attempting to shoplift merchandise in the single digits of value.

My mother and an uncle were both victims of smash and grabs. In my mother's case, the partonizing cop made some sorry excuse to not come and look, along the lines of "sometimes windows just break by themselves" (do shopping bags also walk away, too?). In my uncle's case, the cop actually chewed him out for parking his car in a "dangerous" area. A neighbor also had his car burglarized, reported this to the cops, who did nothing, even though he had security footage from his house, of the act ("too low-res.," said the cops...even though it's the same sort of equipment stores use, which is considered good evidence of shoplifting and burglary); the next week, the perp, who was pissed about being ratted on, slashed the guy's tires. There's a crack/smack/bawdy-house a block from my house, which everyone knows about, but is too scared to report, even though the neighborhood has to deal with people pissing in our yards and finding syringes and used condoms in the corner park. After a while, you realize reporting crimes is often worse than pointless.

And serious, violent criminals should be locked up indefinitely. No halfway houses for rapists, like they're trying to force down everyone's throats. A neighbor had a basement suite, with a woman living in it who was raped and robbed at knifepoint by a rapist from a halfway house a few blocks away. These social agencies that scream "NIMBY!" are big, well-connected entities with well-paid directors, who live off of public funding and human misery. Public safety should come before giving a "second chance" to people who rape, rob and murder.

There really are a lot of unreported crimes, too few dangerous people locked up, and many people to blame for this. While the cops whine about lax laws and judges, they should also accept responsability for getting us into this mess. And if they lock up all of the purse-snatchers, rapists, murderers, burglars, and bawdy and drug house owners, then throw away the keys, I'm all for it.