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Saint John tackles crime concerns with 2-year private security pilot

Saint John is launching a two-year security program to address resident and business concerns about crime and public safety.

The program — called the Community Safety and Security Team — will bring private security guards to what city staff say are the city’s most crime-affected areas like the uptown core, Waterloo village and around local shelters.

“This is really about deterrence and a presence in those key service areas,” said Amy Poffenroth, the city’s commissioner of Growth and Community Services, at a Tuesday morning announcement.

As I recall this has been done on a neighborhood scale in Toronto, albeit a wealthy neighborhood.

Not sure if any stats exist showing value for money.

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Crusading reverend puts up anti-ICE sign on church’s NATIVITY scene as MAGA congregation slams foul move

Nativity scene desecrated

A pastor who put up an anti-ICE Nativity scene at his Massachusetts parish has faced backlash from the agency’s director and the Archdiocese of Boston.

Reverend Stephen Josoma placed a sign that says ‘ICE WAS HERE’ over the empty manger of an otherwise classic Nativity scene on display outside the Saint Susanna Parish in the Boston suburb of Dedham.

Attached to the manger is another sign that says, ‘The Holy Family is safe in The Sanctuary of our Church,’ along with the phone number to call LUCE, a group that monitors immigration enforcement and offers support to immigrant communities in Massachusetts.

What a maroon!

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Swiss man jailed after saying women and men have different skeletons

A Swiss musician claims to have been imprisoned for a post on social media in which he said that skeletons can only be male or female.

Emanuel Brünisholz was convicted of hate speech and fined by a court in the Swiss canton of Bern over the Facebook post, which also suggested that trans people were mentally ill.

When he refused to pay the fine, Brünisholz was instead sentenced to ten days in prison and began his sentence on Tuesday.

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TTC employee and customer charged after allegedly stabbing each other at subway station

A TTC employee and a customer have been charged after they allegedly stabbed each other at a downtown subway station last week.

Toronto police said a call came in for a stabbing at TMU Station, formerly named Dundas Station, on the afternoon of Nov. 26.

Police initially told reporters that only a TTC employee was stabbed and that a male was subsequently arrested.

h/t Patti Jo

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