Drug and gang enforcement in BC has been compromised since the Kelowna Summer Jam back in 2012. However, it was compromised right before that as well as long before that. In Julian Sher's book The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada Allen Dalstrom was quoted as saying when it came to organized-crime investigations, the RCMP had done “f--- all here for 25 years”. He was referring to how the RCMP scuttled Operation Phoenix.
Nothing has changed. That's why we need to put organized crime back under provincial jurisdiction like Ontario and Quebec. Bob Paulson's exit interview proved that the RCMP have absolutely no desire whatsoever to investigate organized crime. They just want the budget without doing the work. When the RCMP loses billions of tax dollars from it's terrorist budget every year, that is organized crime. Their continued tax fraud is disturbing.
Now that pot is legal we need to focuss on getting harder drugs off the street especially fentanyl. Kelowna has started to arrest street level fentanyl dealers and Surrey needs to follow their example. That is the New York Model. Seizing the proceeds of crime is not the New York Model. That is the corrupt LA model when Freeway Ricky was leading the US crack epidemic.
The UN and the Hells Angels have the right to sell legal pot just like Andy Richards has the right to sell cop pot. Allowing one but not the other is a conflict of interest. As for hard drugs, we need to promote treatment not addiction. That will save lives. It's that simple.
A recent article in the paper quoted a cop telling victims of financial fraud the Rcmp don't have the resources to pursue charges, better to try in civil court.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if pension obligations are crowding out other expenses.
If they stopped giving millions of dollars to lying criminals they would have lots of funds to do their job and get a raise for patrol officers. This is why there needs to be public accountability for tax dollars.
DeleteThere is a degree of accountability, however, most don't know how to read a financial statement and do the digging. they also don't read those who do the digging, such as Norm Farrell and the MSM really isn't going to announce the truth.
ReplyDeleteWe may have to have a look at how taxes are paid. We may have to look at pencil pushers vs service providers. We may have to look at empires which are built within a bureaucracy