Years after municipal governments started living by the principles of #NiggerLivesMoreImportantThanSocietyMotherfuckas, the resulting wave in crime and disorderly vagrants plaguing every corner of the metropolis have resulted in even an extreme leftist Edmonton City Council choosing to fund the police after all: even guaranteeing budget increases above and beyond salaries.
I bring all this up as preamble because city council just spent an entire day — and many, many days before that over the last couple of years — trying to figure out how best and how well to fund the Edmonton Police Service.After a lot of tough questions about what the city can expect for its investment, council voted 9-4 Wednesday to approve a generous but not extravagant EPS funding formula very similar to the current one they previously criticized.
The decision means police should get significant, predictable budget increases each year commensurate with population growth, but constrained at 30 per cent of overall city operational spending. The city will also cover any salary settlements.
Of course, this is a bit of a mixed blessing. While the public is getting ever sicker of homeless bums causing vandalism and violence and societal decay in their wake, EPS is notoriously not interested in doing anything about it.
At the same time, we know a police service is mostly a reactive tool, limited in its ability to improve prevention and address root causes of crime, poverty and illness. Those levers are largely held by other orders of government, particularly the province, which has not been addressing them in particularly productive ways.
The city doesn’t have the money or legal authority to fill gaps of this scale — though it has been trying in some small ways. As such, council did really the only thing it could reasonably do in the short term, which is to provide stability to a major intervention that is within the city’s jurisdiction.
A "reactive tool" isn't a problem if you're actually wisely reacting. Every negative feedback loop, which crimestopping inherently must be, is a reactive tool. Meanwhile, Gerein can shut the fuck up until the day he dies (hopefully ironically at the hands of a drug addict with a switchblade) about "prevention and root causes of crime". After all, his precious leftwing governments in Ottawa have been responsible for the biggest cause of violence on the streets of Edmonton: worthless scumbags from shithole countries who should have been pelted with bullets when they tried to cross the border.
Let's look at two of the three largest crime stories in Edmonton in the month of August. First, remember all the burnings? I know women who were terrified over the man found burnt to death in a car earlier this month, right after another body was found burnt in a vehicle outside city limits. In late June there had been yet a third (okay, technically the first) body found in a burning car near 153rd Avenue. One was just another suspicious death, two was a coincidence, and three looks like murder. How can we ever hope to identify the suspe...oh, nevermind, its Mexicans helping Red Indians (who also, let's remember, should be on their land and not ours) commit gang violence.
The biggest story of the month of course was the "world peace" soccer tournament which didn't feature a single white team made up of Canadians, but instead of bunch of African niggers who instantly created a massive city-wide rumble.
The soccer players, who represented Brazil, Somaliland, Congo, Ethiopia, Namibia, Eritrea, India, and Senegal (not sure where Canada fit in, but there ya go) started actually beating each other with sticks.
The only other major crime story was the West Edmonton Mall shootings, which coincidentally happened right after the soccer tournament. It's also apparently gang related, so it might tie into the first crime story instead of the second. Notice that, as per usual the Edmonton Journal doesn't mention anything about the race of the suspects, which guarantees they were the skin colour that doesn't belong here.
"It appears one group was waiting for a second group of four males who were inside the mall," Derko said.
"It was reported that four males left the mall and went to their vehicle when a second vehicle, a white coloured SUV, approached them and subsequently resulted in the exchange of gunfire."
Three of the people who had initially been inside the mall were shot in the altercation.
Police have not identified the people in the other group and do not know if anyone from the group was injured.
After the shooting, Derko said two people from the first group ran back inside the mall.
Back to Gerein and his "root causes", his reference to social workers of course doesn't talk about darkies in gangs shooting each other on our streets. I quoted his reference to "preamble" earlier without including it. Now you know why:
Very little walking occurred because within 30 seconds of hitting the pavement the team came across a mostly unresponsive man lying on a concrete slab.A minute or so later, while trying to assess the condition of the first man, the team spotted another man collapsing on the sidewalk one street adjacent. The group rushed over and administered naloxone to counter any effects of overdose, and after a relatively short time — amazingly, to my view — the man was back on his feet, ready to continue his day.
The first man, initially unreceptive to help, was eventually taken to a shelter.
Two minutes, two blocks, two distressed patients, and a service team unfazed as if carrying on a normal work day, which I assume it was.
In the weeks since that experience, I’ve also taken note of some related news.
- Around 3,000 people in Edmonton are chronically experiencing homelessness. The numbers just won’t go down, and may even be getting incrementally worse.
- Emergency shelters are seeing record summer demand and complaints about encampments are up 50 per cent.
The homelessness problem that far-left Iveson assured us could be solved by 2018 with more tax dollars is getting worse? Yet again, there are root causes in play by levels of government. The problem is it can't be blamed on any government even moderately right of centre.
Homelessness is, I believe Cosh said this once as well [he did! -ed], filling an ecological niche of sorts. Homeless will collect and spawn in accordance with the amount of food available, and the degree of predators to ween them out and/or scare them away. So has the City of Edmonton taken steps to cause the benefit to being homeless to increase? Yes it absolutely has. Every penny of public money wasted on the homeless just brings more of them. Meanwhile has the City of Edmonton caused the predators of the homeless to be chased away? Yep, it did all that too (and then some). Has the federal government also taken steps to make homeless feel less fearful that, say, some property owner is going to do the sensible thing and get rid of them permanently?
Hey look, they totally are. So it looks like the reason Edmonton Police have more homeless to deal with is that their own sugar daddy is also funding the homeless while their ideological buddies are busy making it harder for their natural predators to eliminate them from the landscape. And that's before we look at how the Red Indians who make up the vast majority of the homeless are constantly being thrown buckets of money which, thanks to the loss of the excellent Residential School system, they don't have the education (and never had the IQ) to spend it on anything but the kind of stuff that requires first responders to carry naloxone.
Of course, the bleeding hearts show up in the comments (everybody else gets a lifetime ban):
Bort Smith:
"Social housing, criminal justice reform, mental health services, reconciliation efforts, drug treatment, anti-poverty programs — these are things that can actually produce long-term improvements."No they don't becuase the populations in question don't want to get better. It's time to defund these programs and force people to act in a respectable manner.
John Hogwarts:
And just how do you "force people to act in a respectable manner"? What punishment would you apply to a homeless person? Lock them all away somewhere? Where? Build more prisons or camps? You can only punish people who have something to lose.
JH is being his usual moronic self here. How do you force people to act in a respectable manner? With force, that's how. And what punishment would we apply? All pain up to and include death. Locking them away works too, but of course somebody will still fill the niche unless we close it (which locking them away in fairness does, a little bit).
We could solve the homeless population pretty quickly, and that's before you sign onto my excellent poisoned pizza idea. We could stop supporting them. Full stop end of story, every publicly funded homeless shelter in the city shuts down tomorrow, and these people get none of the support they "need".
In the meantime, we give them something to lose. Their life. And we shouldn't be feeling too bad about it, they are basically trying to commit suicide daily and we keep stopping them: in response they break into our garages and smash our vehicle windows. Let us take care of them (which is a net positive for the planet) and then Edmonton Police won't need nearly as much cash (which they only use to take away productive people's real human rights anyways).
