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Vehicle thieves taking up arms, police chief warns
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I'm getting really tired of thieves, and the lack of any consequence put on them.
These scumbags cost Canada billions, and the untold amount of suffering to their victims.
Of these 80 arrests, what's the conviction rate and average jail sentence? If it's below 100% and less than 10 years then we aren't doing good enough!
The thefts most likely highlight an underlying problem, where people are willing to do unscrupulous things to put food on the table.
It's a sign of an economy with weak wages where people can't afford to put food on the table, likely due to the growing inequality.
They should definitely be punished as this directly harms other low income Canadians, but the underlying issue needs to be addressed or there will be more people willing to take risks to put food on the table.
tl;dr blame the rich. That's my shit take anyway, I'm not an economist.
The Montreal mob are not exactly struggling to put food on the table, but yes, you're not wrong in net terms, except for one thing: it's not food, it's drugs.
Front-line people steal in order to get drugs. You'd see front-line property crime almost vanish overnight if drugs were free and legal, with the proviso that you had to use them at an approved facility. Bonus if we can get some sort of housing security and/or comprehensive mental health service in play.
Either way, once you get the whole "money for drugs" thing out of the system, there's almost no need for people to steal, and the aforementioned Montreal mob will have a world of trouble getting foot-soldiers when there's no pool of desperate junkie labour to exploit.
It sounds expensive, but really isn't when you look at the costs of policing and property crime.