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Canada (like many countries) suffers from a justice system that is hard at the start (arrest and processing) and soft on the back end. Instead of putting more police on the streets (typical politician answer) they need to make more jail space available, more rehabilitiation programs in place, and generally try to clean things up from the back end rather than from the front.
Montreal police are forever bitching about handling the same people over and over again, arresting car theives, drug dealers, and other "small to middle" offence violators over and over again, in a revolving door that often puts them back on the street within hours rather than days.
Some of the homeless types actually commit crimes just to get tossed into the system, warm bed, shower, clean clothes, and a meal or two before they get cycled off the other end of the system.
New "no handgun" laws will not have much effect if the punishment is a slap on the wrist and a warm meal.
Alex
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