Unlike David Eby, who initially tried to downplay crime concerns, Attorney General Murray leans more toward accepting that a state of crisis exists
The attempt to soft-pedal the alarming report on prolific offenders and random stranger attacks backfired on the NDP government Tuesday, as Opposition Liberals spent question period yelling loudly about it.
He has got a lot to answer for, via Rankin. The responses were mostly along the traditional lines of throwing the B.C. Liberals’ record back in their faces. A tiresome comparison of which government did the worse job of letting public safety erode fills up a lot of debate time, but accomplishes little.
“We can’t arrest our way out of this” is a shared view. We could arrest, divert or charge, convict and/or treat. But that’s a clumsy soundbite. Rankin said it was the Liberals that ended a repeat-offender management program years ago. There’s a long back story to that decision. It had a lot more to do with “virulent” bureaucratic infighting than a political move to cut costs.
And unlike Eby, who initially tried to downplay the crime concerns, he leans more toward accepting that a state of crisis exists.“People need to accept consequences for their actions. If there’s criminal behaviour that’s been proven in a court of law, then of course people should go to jail…. I accept that there are people for whom jail is the only answer…”
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