Camera's in Vancouver.

Oct 28, 2008 11:40

This morning as I was enjoying my morning news while reading the Province, I gasped in pure disbelief.  Apparently, Sam Sullivan, Vancouver's Mayor, believes having camera's positioned throughout the city in, what has been known as "criminal area's" will help deter criminals from well criminalizing as well as help identify any person involved in ( Read more... )

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1grl_revolution October 29 2008, 02:53:15 UTC
Big Brother is watching...

One of the problems with the justice system is that we take people (not all of the criminals are like this of course) who have FASD or other mental disabilities, and put them in jail, and then just chuck them back out onto the street when they've served their time. We set them up to fail. My boss is currently trying to get a home set up to send youths who have offended to so that they can live in a structured, supervised environment, and actually get some *help* as opposed to just being thrown in jail.

I agree with you- our justice system needs to be reevaluated. *nods*

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Big brother indeed. goodgirl09 October 29 2008, 03:02:48 UTC
Crystal,
I agree. I believe we need education and prevention and also, due to not having the previous already instituted, we need harm reduction and rehabilitation. This will hopefully help - it can not make things worse, right?

In the words of Charlie Brown: "good grief".

xxoo
Lexi

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