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From media coverage of BC Police Chiefs speaking to a federal committee about issues with drug decriminalization.
First, the sensical:
Next, the nonsensical:
First, the sensical:
...(Fiona Wilson, president of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police) said she supports B.C. and Ottawa trying to add exceptions to decriminalization in areas like skate parks and playgrounds, so that police could ask people to move along and arrest them if they refuse to comply...
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...(Provincial NDP Government) Premier David Eby is attempting to create more exceptions, by banning open drug use in places like beaches, bus shelters and businesses. But that legislation is tied up in a court challenge...
Next, the nonsensical:
...“Prior to decriminalization, if someone was using drugs in a problematic circumstance, for example at a playground, or a bus shelter or a beach, community members were able to call 911, police were able to attend and address that circumstance,” she (Wilson) said...
...“In the wake of decriminalization, there are many of those locations where we have absolutely no authority to address that problematic drug use, because the person appears to be in possession of less than 2.5 grams and they are not in a place that is an exception to the exemption.”
It was a stark comment, and not one we hear B.C. police leaders often say out loud — perhaps out of fear of retribution from the provincial NDP government...
Why is the second contradictory passage, above, nonsensical in the extreme?
Because the second passage comes from exactly the same piece as the first one. Specifically, both were written by Rob Shaw and published by Glacier Media.
Imagine that!
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6 comments:
Drug decriminalization was to address the issue of legal action for small quantities of drugs; decriminalization was not a free pass to do drugs everywhere.
According to the NDP it is.
What has happened is no the druggies can do as they wish with impunity.
Madness.
For seniors this increases elder abuse as druggies tend to go after low hanging fruit and now with medical workers scared and now transit, with reports of people openly doing drugs on the transit system.
More madness, a restaurant up the valley was fines $7K for selling a mug of beer to an underage person.
Madness again.
Vision(less) Vancouver Provincial (Eby) has f***ed badly on this one and now the NDP have F***ed up the Surrey Police debacle, by telling porkies and if we still had the likes of Rafe Mair and Jack Webster in the media a whole lot of Eby f***ups would be in the paper.
The big problem for Eby is that he cannot admit to being wrong and this drug issue is resonating with the voting class, us the boomers.
I shake my head because as it looks now, those selling drugs, those who make massive profits by selling fentanyl laden drugs are great supporters of Vision(less) Vancouver Provincial!
Vision(less) Vancouver Provincial's blunders are mounting and one wonders if Eby will pull a Bob Skelly this fall on what was a slam-dunk today.
DeCrim, like so many facets of what ails society, seems to be getting the same half-assed treatment that ensures failure. To deal with drug deaths, there has to exist a safe supply along with a way out of the life that looks better than a tent and a welfare cheque, better than a cell in a warren and a McJob. All of this would cost a lot in terms of effort and funding, but not more than TMX, Site C, and the current levels of subsidies to fossil fuel companies who are already surfing on waves of gouging.
Wherein Shaw adds to his portfolio of inadequacies. He can’t write a hit piece without getting some on himself.
Don’t these outfits employ editors anymore?
Lew--
It's interesting...
The piece first popped up for me on that wee bit of astroturf called 'The Orca', which, along with the previous machinations of it's Clarklandian Editor-In-Chief, has been discussed around here in the past.
It's a place that I had assumed had gone the way of the Dodo like, say, that super-fine Smilin' Sammy war chest-foundry called 'City Caucus'.
However, it turns out that the Orca 'property' has been bought up by the Glacier Media Mill and, thus, Mr. Shaw's piece was flung, far-and-wide, through that chain's Wurlitzer.
So, it just might be possible that there was no actual, for real, editor who gave Shaw's piece an actual close read for, you know, crazy stuff like basic logic errors.
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This writer, not me, speaks highly of Rob Shaw
https://www.cheknews.ca/personalities/rob-shaw/
People are asked to write an article and they do. Its a pay cheque. So what if they wrote one with a contrary position the week before. Most people won't notice, they don't read that much and editors checking things. OMG, for that you have to have editors in place and corporations have to pay them. the odd mistake is worth it, they save money.
Yes, if the province had not spent money on things like Site C, expanded sky train, etc. the money could have been used for an expanded drug program which included things such as secure, affordable housing, drug treatment, adequate income to provide for food and medicine.
When people get upset about drug addicts doing drugs in areas they ought not to, they might want to remember these people are high. When you're high you don't think that clearly and you don't always know where you are. These people are ill, give it a rest.
When I look at protestors for and against, you'd think no one thought about the addicts. Its like the protestors are all fighting for their 15 seconds of fame.
Protesting this is not going to do much to change things. If you want addicts to stop dying they have to have a clean, regular supply of drugs. If they had adequate housing with a support system there, then they could also be given their drugs in an orderly manner.
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