P.G. Sees Increase in Break Ins
RCMP are reporting an increase in that activity over the past monthin both PG. and the surrounding area..
(image at right courtesy RCMP)
From May 1st to 31st, the Detachment received 71 reports of Break & Enters from the public. Of those 71 reports, 25 were for residential properties, 32 were related to business properties and 7 were for items being stolen from sheds. These numbers are considerably higher than the norm, leading the Prince George RCMP to warn the public and request for information.
Police say it is very likely many of these offences are being committed by one or two groups of persons. These persons would likely be in possession of and trying to sell a wide variety of stolen property including lawn mowers, computers, tablets, televisions, sunglasses and bicycles. A vehicle is likely being used to transport the stolen property. The break-ins are occurring at all hours of the day throughout our community.
Police ask that you ensure your property is secured and to take steps to deter thieves.
- Record serial numbers or engrave your driver’s licence number on valuables;
- Take pictures of property and store the files on a disk;
- Report suspicious activity at all hours of the day;
- Get to know your neighbours and keep an eye on their property;
- Use security systems, cameras and other deterrents;
- Keep your doors locked, even if you are in the back yard;
- Close and lock your windows each time you leave your home, even in hot weather.
The Prince George RCMP are looking for information to help identify and locate the person or persons involved in these property crimes. If you have any information, contact the Prince George RCMP at (250)561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1(800)222-8477,
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Good morning to all my friends in George. Still a cloudy day in Abby but its looking up.
Its sad to hear that my old hometown is still ravished by break-in’s. We had a break-in in PG. They entered into our vacant basemen suite But I had the door bolted that entered into our upstairs residence. They got the pins out of the upstairs door but that’s as far as they
Cheers
Wasn’t Abbotsford a huge hotspot for vehicle thefts recently?
wonder what would happen if you surprised them during a break in and they fell down your stairs 7 or 8 times trying to get away
johnny, they’d probably sue your butt off. Although I’ve seen it done.
They didn’t mention the little urchins cruising neighborhoods on bikes with backpacks, trying to covertly check out your house, ringing the doorbell etc. A security system is pretty cheap considering the price jump in insurance after you make a claim, let alone the peace of mind. Lock your windows and doors, sheds etc., the harder you make it for them to break in the less problems. Just lock stuff up.
One could only hope, johnnyb45. ;)
High poverty rate + addiction = desperation for money and more break-ins.
However, as someone pointed out, I could be wrong.
Of course its summer time the homeless, repeat offenders and addicts are back in town in force and every year this time of the year thefts and B&Es increase. No big surprise there
The big surprise is how many people are continually caught off guard by this every year.
pgjhon, this is not about Abbotsford it about break-ins in PG. It seems I’m not allowed to post on this site but think again and concern yourself about your own city a**.
Cheers
I wonder what would happen if our Courts would stop giving out victim charges of 5 cents and fines of $ 1.00 and giving another 3 months conditions , when they have just broken the last one ” what a bloody joke “
sophic, it’s nice to know that if I choose not to work and if I choose to try drugs which results in me becoming an addict, then I can break and enter at will without any personal responsibility for my impoverished and addicted state!
It won’t matter that I made poor decisions. It won’t matter if I made wrong choices. I will not be held to account, because some bleeding heart will proclaim that it’s not my fault!! I will be deemed to be a victim without any responsibility for my poor choices and bad decisions, but
Anybody on the site remember back to a time when personal responsibility was actually something that was valued?
So, who was recently released from jail?
In fairness to sophic – all she/he did was present a formula that is true. People with no money, who are addicted to drugs, will steal to get drugs. The question is what’s the answer. Incarceration – they could never steal as much as it costs to keep them in prison, at least the way we build prisons. Now, if you want to go to a more gulag style, then prison would be an option.
Give them more money – could do that – which government budget would you like to reduce to increase welfare so drug addicts can buy drugs vs stealing for them?
Drug rehab for all. About 14% effective.
Make drugs legal – heck, supply them for free – might be cheapest and only effective solution.
Sophic Sage you are making one huge assumption. There is no means test for addiction and not all addicts are in the lower income bracket. It is true that if you are addicted and don’t have the means to feed your habit you are more likely to steal to buy drugs. We need to look at what comes first – the addiction or the poverty. In my working career I have worked with many low-income individuals who would never steal or do drugs and I have worked with upper and middle class kids who do both.
Bleeding hearts are always trying to make excuses for criminals…I mean lets call a spade a spade..someone who breaks into homes, cars etc for the purpose of stealing to support a drug habit is in fact committing a crime to support his / her habit. By definition a criminal, and so many of them with hundreds of arrests and dozens of convictions should not be roaming our streets any longer! Giving them more welfare is not going to make the addiction go away, and making the drugs harder to get just drives up the price, and the frequency of crime! Give the CRIMINALS a choice, jail or detox and if after detox they are caught thieving again to lock em up!
I say we pay Mexico to look after our criminals. Huge savings to be had here.
I say lets invest a few bucks in our social services and forget about military spending.
Cheers
NyteHawwk, you suggest that we give the CRIMINALS a choice, jail or detox and if after detox they are caught thieving again, we lock em up!
The bleeding hearts will proclaim that we don’t have the right to “force” someone into detox! That would be inhumane!!
Unfortunately, the criminals seem to have more rights than the rest of us.
Bigger jails and more policemen are not the answer.
Cheers
bcracer: I think you just hit the nail on the head.
Digitus Impudicus: I think you’re right. We’ve shipped so many jobs overseas and to Mexico, maybe they’d be interested in contracting jail too. Mexico, China, Indonesia might all be interested.
Shucks, we could fill some of those empty shipping containers going back there!
That might just open their eyes a bit. If they had to work to pay their way back here again, that would be all the better. Especially on the wages those countries pay.
Sage advice and commentary Retired2
Ya, you’re probably right 02. Everyone in BC should be given a free $100,000 a year and free crack.
Honestly it would probably be cheaper to supply every crack head with their dope for free, than it is to keep them in jail, pay them welfare, and pay for all of the associated policing costs. Not to mention the cost of theft and break-ins to the general public.
One bonus would be that we could insist on the dope being dispensed only in designated, isolated areas around the province and if the crack heads strayed from those locations there would be no dope!
Keep em happy, out of society and away from our homes, cars and businesses!
Nice to see you aren’t accountable for your actions because you have a drug dependency.
Every May when Westcoast Amusements are in town the crime increases dramatically.
It seems to me there are two groups of separate think on this issue; those that seek to explore and then address the root causes of crime (break & enters); and those that simplify, minimize, or outright dismiss, any root causes of crime, and would rather focus on punishment.
Perhaps the second group finds it too difficult to think about root causes and methods of preventing crime, punishment seems much more simpler, and straight-forward.
Hmm… I guess the same thing can be said about finding the root causes of anything… like terrorism (which is a crime), for example?
www. youtube.com/watch?v=mg31etWIJ-s
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OMFG, that’s hilarious: The root cause of terrorism is terrorists. No wonder this government stumbles from one pointless blunder to the next with Big Brains like Poilievre running the show. I can sure see now why these dunderheads in Ottawa appeal to the over-simplifiers who write into to 250. Sure, drug addiction is caused by drug addicts, crime is caused by criminals. It’s all so simple, I just couldn’t see it till now. The scales have slipped from my eyes! Quick, what other problems can we solve with this approach? Ah, I know: wars are caused by soldiers, poverty is caused by poor people, victimization is caused by victims. Everything just makes so much more sense when looked at through this lens.
dear god . . .
Laughed my ass off when I first heard Pierre Poilievre (PP) say this as well Krusty. We got some real insight in to how a Conservative mind works in this one, but it’s also kind of scary as well, because this was the same mind behind the unFair Elections Act.
Krusty, I can honestly say this; with people liken PP running our country, Canada is “f”ing doomed. They may try to drive me off this site, but until then, I will do my patriotic best to share as many facts and truths to show everyone here, just how incompetent, and inept, this Harper government really is!!!
I see that according to Statistics Canada, Police Reported Crime in Canada is lower when Conservatives are in power! More specifically, crime has been going down significantly ever since Stephen Harper was elected in 2006.
Not so sure that the bleeding hearts will be happy with this news, but way too go!
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2013001/article/11854-eng.htm
You just got here Sophic and you are thinking of leaving us already? Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on your way out! ;-)
Cheers!
And once again the thread gets hijacked by a couple of bleeding hearts!
Maybe it is too simple,but for the most part, crime and criminals comes down to people making life choices.
That’s why not every drug addicted criminal started off poor, and underprivileged, and not every poor underprivileged person becomes a drug addicted criminal.
At some point we have to make people responsible for their life choices and quit the mamby pamby excuse making!
The fact is most criminals and drug addicts get there by choice, and they could just as easily have chosen a different path in life!
I particularly like the way Texas courts protect their citizens from repeat offenders committing b&e’s. Trespass is a felony and so is burglary. If you break in and steal from someone’s home. the homeowner can quite legally shoot the perp. Their courts are much kinder, with sentences up to 20 years…
Tough to re-offend when you’re doing hard time.
Hawk, that’s the point, saying it all comes down to individual choice is an oversimplification. Some people have more choices than others, more options, better chances. You are correct, however, that some born in poverty make good choices, whereas some born with the silver spoon make bad choices. This proves my point: there’s more to the matter than simple choice selection.
Oh, and how does agreement between Sage and me or anyone else of like mind constitute a hijack? If you have no room in your world for dissenting opinion, you might want to think twice about posting anything on this site.
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