“Law and Order” – Page 8

Questions, Doubts, Lack of Accountability Undermine Coutts Fundraising

“I, Donald Best, am the sole author of this Investigation Report concerning Fundraising for the accused men commonly known as the ‘Coutts Four’: Anthony Olienick, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, and Jerry Morin.

… This report is the result of requests from almost a hundred people (witnesses) who contacted me starting in July, 2023 and expressed concern with the fundraising activities of what I call ‘The Margaret MacKay Group’ or for brevity ‘The MacKay Group’. Some friends and family members of the four accused also contacted me.”

Questions, Doubts, Lack of Accountability Undermine Coutts Fundraising

I, Donald Best, am the sole author of this Investigation Report concerning Fundraising for the accused men commonly known as the ‘Coutts Four’: Anthony Olienick, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, and Jerry Morin.… pic.twitter.com/ews4KPu3ev

— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) November 20, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2023November 20, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada

As Manhattan Installs ‘Noise Cameras’ To Crack Down on Loud Cars, Critics Fret Initiative Will ‘Punish People of Color’

The New York City borough of Manhattan is quietly installing “noise detectors” that will target loud vehicles and result in their drivers being issued with fines. Yet the advent of this new technology is raising the concerns of some social justice advocates who fear the noise detectors will “punish people of color,” as a recent article in the Guardian put it.

I am all for the city of Toronto installing these.

We have far too many idiots.

by Blazingcatfur•October 7, 2023October 7, 2023•0•"Law and Order"

Arrested and released 14 times …

Arrested and released 14 times, a chronic offender’s journey through B.C.’s corrections system exposes vital gaps

After pleading guilty to his 11th random assault, Mohammed Majidpour was released from jail last month, on the condition that he stay at a downtown Vancouver homeless shelter.

He had been in pretrial detention for nearly a year. In order to secure his freedom, the 36-year-old had also agreed to many other conditions, including that he stay away from the illicit opioids and stimulants that had fuelled his previous bouts of psychosis. He was also required to check in regularly with his probation officer on the city’s Downtown Eastside, to ensure he was sticking to a plan crafted by the justice system to protect the public and help him improve his life.

by Blazingcatfur•October 1, 2023September 30, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order"

Trudeau’s law society: Exclusive data analysis reveals Liberals appoint judges who are party donors

In late June, human rights lawyer Yavar Hameed filed a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to order the prime minister and justice minister to fill nearly 80 judge vacancies across provincial superior courts. Judicial vacancies have caused significant and growing court delays, which have “harmed” his vulnerable clients, Hameed said in his lawsuit.

Just weeks before, Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote Justin Trudeau urging him to fill the “untenable” superior court vacancies. “The government’s inertia regarding vacancies and the absence of satisfactory explanations for these delays are disconcerting,” he wrote in a letter obtained by Radio-Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 9, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Colby Cosh: Small retailers will pay the price for Liberal crime policies

Since I’ve been complaining about our national myopia on matters of economic growth and productivity, let me give you a timely example. Consider two fresh news items pegged to an announcement of quarterly financials by the supermarket giant Loblaw: one for Yahoo written by Financial Post alumna Alicja Siekerska, and one for the CBC by Sophia Harris.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2023July 28, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ottawa lawyer and Anti-Convoy agitator suspended again, accused of offering legal services for sexual favours

James Bowie: Crusading lawyer continues fight for alternative payment methods.

Ottawa lawyer James Bowie, already under indefinite suspension for unrelated professional misconduct last year, has again been suspended by the Law Society of Ontario for not fully co-operating with its legal-services-for-sex investigation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2023July 28, 2023•0•"Law and Order"

GUNTER: Liberal bail reforms directly tied to soaring violent crime rates

“I am really, really concerned about the escalation of violence in our city, particularly the violent incidents that we have experienced, whether close to the Belvedere LRT station, or the random shooting that took place in the west end.”

That’s how Mayor Amarjeet Sohi summed up his concern two weeks ago after occupants in a luxury car engaged in three separate shootings in our city on July 15 and after 52-year-old Rukinisha Nkundabatware was murdered in a random stabbing at the Belvedere LRT station the previous week on July 9.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2023July 28, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Denying Bail To The Coutts Four Is A Political Decision And Act

Five hundred and ten days ago just after midnight on February 14, 2022 – heavily armed RCMP squads raided three trailer-homes in the border town of Coutts, Alberta and started arresting people for Conspiracy to Murder Police Officers in Support of a Plot to Overthrow the Government during the Freedom Convoy protests in Alberta.

After a series of court appearances, four men remain in jail – denied bail for reasons of… well, we don’t know why they were denied bail. A court order prohibits publishing most details of the ongoing case and hearings.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2023July 8, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Justice", "Law and Order", Canada

What’s life like inside?

Going Live Soon – 8am ET

Join @JasonLavigneMP and me as we discover the conditions in the remand jails where the #Coutts4 are waking to day 501.

I know from personal experience that #SolitaryConfinement is torture. Some of the #CouttsFour are in solitary. I want to know more. https://t.co/LhYlvNyVhp

— DonaldBest.CA * IT ENDS WHEN WE DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) June 29, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•June 29, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada

Daniel Penny pleads not guilty in NYC subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely

A stoic Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in a packed Manhattan courtroom Wednesday morning for the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely.

The 24-year-old former Marine — who appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court clean-shaven and wearing a blue suit and maroon tie — was arraigned on charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide during the brief, minutes-long hearing.

by Blazingcatfur•June 28, 2023June 28, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order"

Canadians of all stripes fed up with government line on crime, drugs: poll

Canadians of all ages and walks of life are fed up with the status quo on how their governments are responding to spiking rates of crime and addiction, according to a wide-ranging new Leger poll commissioned by Postmedia.

On everything from bail to involuntary addiction treatment to the decriminalization of drugs, Canadian public opinion was found to be almost entirely at odds with the priorities being championed by provincial and federal governments.

by Blazingcatfur•June 15, 2023June 15, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada

A Look at the Suspects, Many With Long Criminal Histories, Behind Random Attacks in Canada

Canadians have been falling victim to unprovoked stranger attacks with increasing frequency—in the middle of the day, in stores, or walking down the street. A man in London, Ontario, was even stabbed while sitting in his car waiting for a train to pass.

Some say Canada’s growing drug problem is to blame, with drug-induced psychosis sending addicts on violent rampages. Others say the problem is a lax criminal justice system that allows the most violent to repeatedly offend.

by Blazingcatfur•June 15, 2023June 14, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Crime

Pierre Poilievre calls for public safety minister to resign over Bernardo prison revelations

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over his handling of convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s controversial prison transfer.

CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino’s office knew for months that one of Canada’s most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to a medium-security institution.

by Blazingcatfur•June 14, 2023June 14, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Appeal court cuts five years from sentence of man who beat, choked mother outside Edmonton daycare .. because Indigenous

A man who brutally attacked a mother outside her children’s daycare will serve four years in prison instead of nine years after Alberta’s top court found a judge failed to properly assess how the accused’s Indigenous background affected his level of culpability.

He was Indigenous? Well in that case Mom had it comin.

h/t Lesley

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2023May 31, 2023•0•"Justice", "Law and Order", Canada, WTF?

Police agencies are desperate to hire. But they say few want the job.

The San Francisco Police Department is down more than 600 officers, almost 30 percent of its allotment. Phoenix needs about 500 more officers to be fully staffed. The D.C. police force is smaller than it has been in 50 years, despite troubling gun violence and carjackings, as officers leave faster than they can be replaced.

Police departments across the country are struggling to fill their ranks, creating what many current and former officials say is a staffing emergency that threatens public safety.

by Blazingcatfur•May 28, 2023May 27, 2023•0•"Law and Order"