P.G. Receives Community Safety-Crime Prevention Award
Friday, November 1, 2013 @ 3:20 PM
Prince George, B.C. – The City of Prince George, has been named a recipient of a 2013 Community Safety and Crime Prevention Award.
The awards were announced today by the Attorney General , Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton.
The City of Prince George receives the award for its “multi-faceted approach to crime prevention and community safety, engaging community partners to work collaboratively to create an environment where all citizens feel safe.
The city has led several projects including Communities that Care, Step In – Step Up and Mayor Shari Green’s Task Force on Crime.”
The award is one of 22 handed out today at the 16th annual Ministry of Justice Community Safety and Crime Prevention Awards as Crime Prevention Week gets underway in B.C.
At the event, Anton also said up to $1 million is being made available (through civil forfeiture grants) for crime prevention projects that respond to youth crime and domestic violence.
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Wow….. just wow
Oh here I was expecting a funny cartoon…
So if we have one of the highest crime rates in BC and in Canada, one has to wonder what kind of award communities that have amongst the lowest crime rates get.
Sort of like kindergarten …. everyone gets a star because everyone is a valuable person and deserves a pat on the back just for trying.
;-)
1. Communities that Care
I really would have thought that the communities which have the lowest crime rate would be the communities which care.
I guess I am just old fashioned. I am not much into this newspeak jargon.
While I am appreciative of the multi-stakeholder approach being taken to plan community strategies for crime reduction / prevention, can’t they wait until some kind of positive results are achieved first?
This all seems too much like a Lib-Con publicity stunt, something like when Gordon Scambell received the Order of BC… kind of meaningless…
That about tops the stupidest thing I have EVER heard. Soon they will give gold medals to criminals who don’t brake the law for a week.
Almost as bad as the green award we received 3 or 4 years ago. Smells like PULP
Almost as bad as the green award we received 3 or 4 years ago. Smells like PULP
So PG gets an award for its âmulti-faceted approach to crime prevention and community safety, engaging community partners to work collaboratively to create an environment where all citizens feel safe…â
Read that statement a couple of times. Then come back to it and read it again. This is classic ‘new-speak’ where words are used to cover up anything concise by their ambiguity. Lots of nice-sounding words that, when put together, don’t mean much of anything at all.
Who are the “community partners” that were “engaged”?
In what way specifically did they “work collaboratively”?
Exactly how did they “create an environment” that makes “ALL citizens feel safe”?
Obviously “feeling safe” is not equivalent to BEING safe in a city with as high a crime rate as ours has!
“where ALL citizens feel safe”
Virtually impossible for ALL to feel safe. In a population of 3 … it is possible …. in a population of 70,000+ it is unlikely ….. I would be interested to hear how they dealt with those who feel paranoid, persecuted, etc.
People who dream up these things seem to have lost touch with reality … simply use words such as many, most, a majority, predominately, and so on.
We may be seeing the result of every kid in kindergarten getting a star and all students in grade school passing on to the next year.
And the sense of entitlement was born…..
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