Posted on 05/03/2023 11:45:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Untreated mental illness and 'prolific offenders' have left a rising number of Canadians fearing for their safety
Violent crime has technically been worse in Canada, but never quite like this. As recently as the early 1990s, the rate of knives and bullets being driven into Canadians was far higher than it is now.
But amid a dramatic uptick in national violence are trends the country has never really seen before. Police officers are being shot and killed on duty at unprecedented rates. Record numbers of Canadians are being randomly attacked by people they’ve never met, for seemingly no reason.
Just on Wednesday, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed and killed on a bus in Surrey, B.C. The tragedy occurs just two weeks after a 16-year-old was killed in a similar incident in a Toronto subway station. And in the interim have come a host of transit stabbings which didn’t make national headlines because the blades missed vital organs.
And worst of all, the crime is everywhere.
When Toronto was struck by the so-called “summer of the gun” in 2005, it was a shocking anomaly within a country that was otherwise enjoying another year of dropping crime.
In the first months of 2023, skyrocketing violent crime is the new reality in basically every Canadian time zone.
In Saskatchewan, First Nations leaders are sounding the alarm on a “crisis” of on-reserve violence. Newfoundland and Labrador is coping with a 20 per cent increase in violent crime severity. In the Yukon territory, politicians and RCMP officials are reporting crime that is both “more intense” and “increasing dramatically.”
A new survey published this week by the Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that two thirds of Canadians believe violent crime is visibly worse than it was before
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They obviously need stricter gun control laws.............................
Getting enriched by diversity.
Untreated mental illness is less dangerous than treated mental illness.
My guess is most of this increase in violence is within recently imported minority communities and on the reservations. BTW there are loads of Sikh crims and gangs in Vancouver. Other ethnic gangs too.
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Punjabi-Canadian organized crime
WebSikh Punjabi-Canadian (Primarily Jatts) [2] [3] Criminal activities. Assassination, Drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, weapon trafficking, illegal gambling, robbery, chop shop, assault, loan sharking, racketeering, extortion, contract killing, …
Let’s see
white supremacy
guns flowing from Trump supporters in the USA
anger over lack of opportunity for inner-city youth
lack of resources for education
did I miss anything?
Given all the above, Canadian crime is but a fraction of our big democrat cities.
Must be that the “Iron river of guns” has changed course from going South to Mexico to now flowing North to Canada, eh?
What’s behind the wave of killings and attacks
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Canadian lefties?
Trudeau has made people lose faith in Canada.
I suppose this is all true but my little pocket of the great white north seems as peaceful as ever. Normalcy bias I know.
It’s because of those bigoted Christians and Republicans-—they’re impregnating women against their will and forcing them to keep the babies. Oh wait-—that’s a stupid Hulu show....I think.
Glad to know your safe. Don’t tell Trudeau.
illegals
“Canada is seeing violent crime like never before. What’s behind the wave of killings and attacks”
The proliferation and easy access to hockey sticks.
If I ever got to tell him anything it wouldn’t be that. :)
And the lefties here in America gush and coo over him!
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