What a blantant example of useless police action. "This is dispatch to Car 54.It's Friday night boy's,please proceed to the 2300 block of Pine street to re-arrest the same damn people we arrested and released last week" Crime fighting redundancy at it's worst. Close down the house, fine the landlord. Crack and Meth are slowly killing people in this town, and a lot of other towns across the country.They are viscious drugs that are destroying decent peoples lives. ZERO TOLERANCE is needed here.

I bet they are all out,Doing Business already..OUR COURTS AND JUDGES...And the whole Legal system is a FARCE. THE PEOPLE THAT PUTS THEM BACK ON THE STREET,THE JUDGES AND THE LAWYERS....MUST BE BOUGHT OFF..... CANNOT BE ANY OTHER REASON THEY GET OUT.....

Obviously only a bulldozer can shut this crack house down!

They have done demolitions in other towns and usually the neighbours are watching and cheering as the rubble is taken away.

Perhaps we should look a little further then those that enforce the law to those that make the law, Your federal Government and to those that closed several Jails and Courthouses down YOUR Provincial Government. It is impossible to deal appropriately with these issues when all around us the resources and means to which may resolve most of these issues are being ripped away.

mmmm.... crack

Instead of requiring the criminals to stop their criminal behaviour we are going to spend even more money on police officers, prosecutors, jails, defense lawyers and judges???

How about better hospitals, schools and infrastructure???

O.k. - crime is always society's fault, never the lawbreaker's, of course.

So what? 20 people arrested. 12 people arrested. What is being done about the problem? What is being done with the people arrested?

Lawyers and Judges need to be held accountable for the situation we have now.

They have set the bar so low that their is no justice anymore. There is no deterant. There is no fear or respect of the law or the lawmakers.

It's all our fault for allowing this to happen.

So, let's get with the program folks and change the way we do business with these people. Quit blaming everyone else and change the people or change the laws. Don't leave it up to the appointed judges or the unaccountable lawyers to dictate our future. Percy

If the Police give out a ticket for not wearing a seat belt the Government collects $125.00.(The City gets a portion) If the Police arrest, and the courts convict, and jail someone for shiplifing it costs the Government literally thousands of dollars.

We cannot arrest and jail every lawbreaker in the country, however we should at the very least be concentrating on putting the worst offenders in jail.
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The male population in Prince George between the age of 15 and 44 is approx 16,895 people. If we assume that 90% of these people are law abiding citizens then we can assume that most serious crimes are being committed by less than 1600 people. (This is probably a high number)

In a City with a population of 76000 people and 114 Police not including (Regional District Police) one can assume that most of these criminals are known to Police Officers and I suggest that most of them have had prior convictions and jail time.

So the question is. Why are they not prosectuted to the full extent of the law, and imprisoned. If they were in a very short period of time your crime rates would go down.

Dont forget that the City of Prince George has a contract with the RCMP for policing and we pay 85% of the cost of the 114 Police Officers. In addition the Mayor is the Chief Magistrate, and the Superintendent of Police reports to the Mayor and City Council. Maybe its time that our Mayor and Council start asking questions about, Arrests, Convictions, and Penalties, these are their concerns as our elected represenitives and they have a responsibility to do this.

Once again the justice system let us down. Fining the landlords is not the solution, they are not the ones breaking the law. Often times(I know from personal experience), the landlord rent out the place to 'reasonable people' with good references, only to have undesirables filter their way in. The landlord also does not have the power to evict people immediately, the residential tenancy act provides protection to the crackheads of the world.So fining the landlord is ludicus...punish the real criminals

>So fining the landlord is ludicus...punish the real criminals<

Yes, it would be ludicrous to fine the landlord who is virtually powerless when renting a place in good faith.

This story is about the fact that the police had to return to the same place within a few days to again find drugs and illegal weapons.

Renters who break the law this way should automatically forfeit any rights under the renters act and get free accommodation for a number of years - behind bars - where they belong.