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Province Introduces Plan to Clear Crime from Neighbourhoods

Thursday, February 21, 2013 @ 2:14 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The battle to clean up neighbourhoods which have become hotbeds for crime, may have a new weapon.
 
The Provincial Government has introduced legislation “The Community Safety Act”, which would see the creation of a new investigative unit that would be responsible for investigating, mediating and working with owners of properties to curb a number of dangerous activities taking place on those specific properties.
 
The new act would see such problem properties targeted, and possibly shut down.
 
This new Act, echoes a strategy already in play in Prince George. RCMP in P.G. have been targeting prolific offenders and the properties which have become known to house illegal activities. City Hall has been working on bylaws that would see some of these same “problem properties”  shut down over safety issues.
 
 
Unlike criminal laws, if passed, the new civil legislation will target properties where the occupants may change frequently, but the problem activities persist, and the property owners fail to take effective action to stop them.

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introduce all the laws you want but the fact still remains, there is no punishment. if they are “prolific offenders” then what is that saying. if the criminal is behind bars he wont be renting will he.
just saying

I once heard a cop say that the vast majority of crimes are committed by a small number of individuals. Keep them off the street and crime will decrease. It isn’t rocket science.

This is a good one they are going after “properties”. Should bring in alot of crooks?
Cheers

So will landlords now be armed?

I like the city is bringing bylaws to back up enforcement I for one would like to know who will be enforcing said bylaws as the city has only 5 bylaw enforcement officers and they only work during business hrs Monday to Friday.

ya but will the sad sack judges play.

Maybe we need a “hangin’ judge” and a Timmy’s ban for bylaw officers. Could work.

And who is going to provide protection for those property owners who want to or try to do the right thing but are threatened or scared to do so. I for one have opted out of owning rental property in this city for this reason alone . The home owner gets punished if they do nothing and get punished if they do something . It is a no win for the homeowner.

And apparently it is against the law to defend yourself. Double bummer.

Great idea, but will need some tweeking. Better than the status quo as far as I am concerned. Doing the same thing or nothing will give you the same results. So lets move on it!

Canada needs a second amendment like the USA. Right to bear arms and protect your property.

That is one of the most sensible things I have read on Opinion 250 “Resident”

I think we need more like minded folks who are not afraid to protect our property and families. Not vigilantes, just a few basic rights as outlined in the original BNA Act.

Resident

You probably stated what a lot of canadians feel. I wish that Opinion 250 would do a survey on what you stated.

I believe this to be a step in the right direction! The RCMP should help the city enforce these particular bylaws, and protect property owners who do the right thing.

A lot of those buildings are owned by “slumlords”. They get a fair share of the drug money. Burning them houses down won’t get rid of the criminals. The judges are to blame here — bottom line.

How about some kind of police force ? Maybe the RCMP to do this, in turn have judges hand out real sentences to deter crime.

All these house arrests are just a money saving but make our legal system a joke.

An interesting news item.

Subject: 11 YR OLD SHOOTS ILLEGALS… Thanks FOX NEWS for reporting it

Ever wonder why FOX news reports this stuff and the others wont, they all think Obama is a Saint and can do no wrong!!!

If guns were banned,
this 11 year old girl from Montana would be dead,
probably of stab wounds like her neighbor.

BUTTE , MONTANA

Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders…

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old’s knee-crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0’Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news…???

An 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself… against two murderous, illegal immigrants… and she wins. She is still alive.

Now THAT is Gun Control!

Thought for the day…
Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented immigrant’
is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist.’

I like this kind of e-mail!

American citizens defending themselves and their homes.

BEING A TRUE AMERICAN, I THINK YOU’LL PASS THIS ON!

I agree with you traveller about the judges. Being released on bail or on your own recognizance with a promise to appear used to mean the judge was convinced there was no opportunity to re-offend. Well, these multiple offense characters and crack house losers are released the next morning with a promise to appear, even though they have no evidence of employment, no income other than welfare, and no long term fixed address. That stinks.

I would like to know why the father left his 11 year child at home by herself.

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