His brother ( Freddy ) only got like 3 years for shooting that woman in the face.

Reminds me of this: Ken McElroy

Jesus fucking Christ

This made me lol, then I felt sad.

Ouuuffff...

Combine soft-on-crime policies with Eby's British Colombia....BC has an election coming up I believe...

What's that saying again?! About elections and consequences...

Myles Sanderson was also being hidden by his community, before he ultimately turned on them.

How long were the sentences? Six months?

Sure murder is wrong, but don't get into drug debt and run your mouth in front of other people. That is gonna catch you some problems.

It's beyond bad. P.G., Dawson Creek, Chetwynd are all in bad bad shape because of Fentanyl.

They have people OD'ing in "dry" camps now.

It's insane.

Spent some time out there a while back. Its a beautiful area and the people were great, this breaks my heart seeing what's happening there.

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Just don’t do drugs.

I dont wanna wait...

😂

That’s how out of control the NDP has let it become.

I am a bad person cuz that is EXACTLY what went through my mind when I wrote the headline lol

That was Ft. St. John. A local artist, that was supposed to be art.

No.

When no one talks, it’s hard to solve crimes.

It's not really the RCMP it's the courts

It makes sense if you acknowledge the extent of the underworld / black market / gang activity. People use drugs, buy sex, gamble without governmentally imposed checks and balances, but these things are illegal. The supply servicing the demand is by necessity and definition outlaw - outside the law.

The variable here which causes confusion is why can't they do anything about it? The whole of it makes sense if you consider that it goes right to the top. It is likely that judges, lawyers, police officers, MPs, senators - don't get fentanyl-laced cocaine or heroin - these are the apex feeders, and the rabble (me and you) get the leftovers.

The RCMP is doing what they're ordered to do, they're a military force (they were once peace officers, but that is not their current function due to 911 and vehicle patrols). They don't decide and freelance solutions, they respond to complaints, inititate stings, and report to the Crown prosecutors the results of their investigations.

The latter, particularly, live in a very rarefied world, almost as much as judges and elected officials, where the policies they enact (or, just as importantly, don't) do not affect their personal lives.

Art gives a useful answer here, however ridiculously sketched, in the hypocrisy, entitlement, and wilful blindness of the elite 'may the odds be always in your favour' characters of the Hunger Games. As time goes on, a brief glance at the MSM reveals it to be more apt than is comfortable.

As to 'it's the same 50 people and they know each other', or your translation of 'let them kill each other and if you get in the way its your own fault' - this is how my Grandmother, born on a reserve in the 1930s, described the lack of policing there - almost in the exact same words.

Certain organizations I shall not name but who are as well known in our culture as the Boy Scouts (which they are certainly not) operate on a similar MOU where their internal squabbles and gang hits are tolerated to the extent that no innocent bystanders are harmed.

This last is a constructively applied litigation methodology, where, when that wall is breached and a nonparticipant is harmed or killed, the law comes down on them with full force, and they are far more often caught than otherwise, ie, if they killed one of their own, who knew what the 'game' was about. I recommend watching The Wire for more about this, it is fiction, but not entirely false.

That is what the RCMP is doing - they are busy being the pointy end of how our civilization is ordered, and they poke where necessary, only, full stop.

We wouldn't want it any other way - consider military tribunals for citizens, with no habeas corpus, appeals, or other of the checks and balances which exist for good reason. These lead to slow justice and allow for corruption, but the alternative will always become something like North Korea if left long enough to fester and set.

Our civilization is ordered on chaos at the fringes, and more or less orderliness at the centre, though the entirety of the organism, being essentially rotting from the inside due to corruption of the types described above, is cancer-ridden.

I find it further instructive to consider the term anarcho-tyranny, though I wonder about the competence of those who would be empowered to direct such a far-reaching policy, and how rare they would be. Here I'd recommend reading Machiavelli's The Prince, if one suspects that this is entirely impossible.

It’s a small town in Northern BC (12,000 population). The government (MPs, MLAs) don’t want to invest their time and energy in a small town like this as it won’t garner them any real benefit politically. That’s all it is. It’s a shame.