Thirty Strikes and Your Out
 

criminals have it good in canada

http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/71710

In no other city do chronic criminals serve sentences as lenient as those here, and stricter punishments are needed to protect the public from people who?ve made a career of crime, the Vancouver Police Department said yesterday.


That?s why it?s calling for a policy where ?super chronic? offenders are automatically given significant prison sentences once they?ve been convicted of 30 offences.


?Several of these criminals have more than 100 convictions (but) the average length of jail sentences are going down, not up,? said Chief Const. Jim Chu.


?One offender we?re tracking, his record is so long it will not fit anymore on the national computer system.?


The VPD monitors 379 chronic offenders ? those who have been charged at least 12 times in 12 months.


A 30 Strikes and You?re Out policy would incarcerate 205 of those offenders.
Insp. Rob Rothwell said there has to be some ?meaningful sentencing to protect the public.?


?The rotating door of bringing them in for a short period of time and returning them to the community does nothing but perpetuate the problem.?


Albert Des Lauriers, who owns a supermarket on East Hastings Street, has been broken into five times in as many weeks.


?People don?t care, and it?s mainly because there?s no punishment. They?re bragging about what they get away with,? he said.

Holy crap 30 strikes. Fuck if we had that here I very well would be very afraid. Fairly certain I would lock myself in.

Note to self: Head up to Vancouver this weekend with a ski mask, a trunk full of tools, a jackhammer, and a plasma cutter.

What kind of offences are they talking about here, small civil things or severe criminal offences?
WG

Breaking into a place seems pretty severe to me.

lol holy fuck

hahahaha Canada - hundreds of terrorists mingling within society and violent criminals of the worst kind free

30 strikes and you're out :1orglaugh

there are fucking guys here with 140 criminal convictions .. thats what all this news is about .. if a guy has 140 convictions .. how many did he beat or not get charged for at all ..????

east hastings is a hell of a place.