Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "More than 150 charges laid after investigation into Toronto street gang" video.

  1. This is false.
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  2. Be grateful that the line is drawn I've chatted with one local foot patrol guy in line for coffee at Tim Horton's, and he told me, and I believe him, that he tries to pay and they often refuse to take his money. Timmies, and the weirdie five-bucks for a foam cup folks, ah, yes, Manybucks, should charge the cops the same as everybody else -- but make some serious contributions to the associations of police who keep them safe 24 hours a day and the many many garbage guys cleaning up their street mess.
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  3. No. One has successfully deported himself to Jamaica. This work surfacing success in Canada is a ripple in a long term stream of teamwork involving some of the Americans' forces. All will be screened, and some will be moved from the Canadian into the American judicial process, ending up in Leavenworth, say, rather than Kingston.
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  4. They'll always be around -- a bit. The recent gun upsurge has been a worry, and it's a relief to find that the pollice are on the case.
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  5. I cerainly hope not.
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  6.  @thephilosopher7173  Well said. To my knowledge, living in the middle of this, one leading criminal is a wealthy and successful Jamaican hoodlum. He is known to the authorities, and they'll get him eventually. . Most of these small-fry are the kid you know from the back of your class in school who didn't have the perseverance to make it through a four year apprenticeship as a lath-and-plaster man. And thought that cutting up a kilo was a major step upward in the business economy.
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  7. This is a bit of a relief. I've known that our customs and RCMP people have been doing a good job over the past couple of decades, but the last two years of gun nonsense had worried me. Here the locals seem to have been on the case. The 83 person round-up on Seaton Street a couple of years back was a mixed success: some dumb innocents were swept up, and one of the majors made it out to Jamaica unscathed. Still, net net it was pretty sound work. This week's news shows that the feet were still paddlling while the mallard was swanning around serenely on the surface of the water.
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  8. The less serious ones are certainly out on bail, most of them scared into straying straight for a good long while. You're of course right that some will re-offend -- um, as long as we continue to keep what they do illegal, against the cries of the people who want us to import America's stilly Second Amendment stuff.
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  9. How sad that you're so jealous of your better organized fellows on the block, Chris... 😂
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  10. Friends of yours? You seem to know them well, Wolfie.
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  11.  @carbonjohnson6414  Half right. My own family arrived via a trailer park in Etobicoke in 1953 (on the river, where those high buildings for successful immigrants have been built since.) I remember my first evening off the boat: two mothers, three children, and an out-of-balance teeter-totter. Mother One: "You need to put little Mary on to balance it out" Mother Two: "You're right. Which end?" Me, to self: "Omigawd, we've come to the wrong country." White Folks of Etobicoke! How has Canada survived? Thank goodness for Mr. Poilievre to reassure the poor souls.
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  12. Pending trial and punishment.
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  13. Actually we conservatives believe in bail, too. Did you miss school the week they took up Magna Carta? Every year?
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  14. You're making it up out of thin air, silly Bates. You have no business slandering our judicial system: it makes mistakes, but is overall honest, competent, and morally rooted in our very sound society. Your ignorant spew is just your morning belch, without a single actual fact in it. A few of the leaders are certainly going to jail for a while, dozens of street idjits are going to get a few months of severe warning, and hundreds of dummies have just been told where the limits are. Good move by the good guys. Thank you, Toronto and Ontario police services (and, I would guess, American informants and co-workers) -- and Big Thank-You to many individual sound and competent cops.
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  15. Says Gary in the teeth of very good news of a massive success of our overall judicial system.
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  16. Specifically, "sweet" one? You've whined at us successfully, but do you have a actual fact? Even one? Reasonably, I think that anything below 5% immediate return to crime and 40% long-term recidivism is a victory, a normal successful progress of a well functioning society. Crooks will crook. That's what they do. Keeping them on the margins is what Canada does. Methinks you are reacting to the American news more than to real life around you here in Canada.
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  17. One leader, not yet caught but on the lam, is Jamaican, currently but temporarily in wealthy retreat back home. Most of these dopes are local white trash. If he's stupid enough to show up in Toronto again, he won't get as far as downtown when he gets off the plane.
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  18. The crimnal in the leadership of TCHC has been eased out to pasture -- and his crime was mostly putting nonexistent people on the payroll or some such, not any of this street stuff. The development of Regent Park was halted a generation ago, and the place has been reduced by several large and unproductive buildings in the past few years.
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  19. Cynicism: the wisdom of the half-wit. Apologies to the good and useful number 0.5.
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  20. That sounds like an extremely dangerous and stupid Bill. "Affiliation" is to be watched by the police in your idea of a society? Tried thinking lately?
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  21. One thing that's needed is a cut in the marijuana taxes: a whole lot of the new legal smoke stores are going to go bust as they try to compete with these street sellers who are tax-free and only sometimes rounded up.
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  22. Why are you surprised, Willliam? And why aren't you ashamed to parade your ignorance in public?
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  23.  @Ynalaw  No, it isn''t. We know that criminals are disproportionately poor, and poor people are disproportionately black. And stupid people can't figger out how this all works...
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  24.  @thephilosopher7173  I think the Russians are more of a threat to us than the few remaining Sicilian and Nepolitan predators. But your more general point is correct --- and a breath of fresh air in this very pungent array of nasty letter-writers.
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  25. You wouldn't want to mention an entire political party which is measuring it by the yard off the foreign Trump and Ayn Rand rolls?
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  26. Most of them are just stoopidooses who thought they could make an easy buck -- like standing on the street for ten hours to make thirty bucks is an easy living, they figgered. A slap of the wrist, and a couple of thousand dollars in legal fees to daddy, will straighten most of them out. And five years from now another bunch of 13-year-olds will be 18.
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  27. Hunh? Relax. They got caught, Joe. Quarter to five. The Sun is almost over the yard-arm.. Don't you have a cold one in the fridge?
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  28. @bboystance1670 The Police rounded up a bunch of baddied. Good work, well done, and thank you! Thank you for asking.
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  29.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  Posted from your tee-pee in the park? Thank you for writing in, Kemo Sabe.
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  30.  @kanthan668  Funny, Emmanuel, the people who are attacking the police and the courts here also seem to want all these gun offenses made legal, American Second Amendmentt style. I think we're seeing the Real Cauoutte wing of the Conservative Party speaking out -- on behalf of the gun-carrying thugs, yet. I shared your wonderment. 🤔
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  31. Oh, shure. I want my life policed by my letter carrier! And damn, they automated out the phone operators. We should have kept them to survey everybody's life, too. (In my village seventy years ago, I leaned more about everybody's love life from the Bell switchboard operators than I did from looking at the photographs sent to the developer in my father's drug store!)
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  32. Ten million, eh, Derrick? You're shure it's not elevan?
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  33. Bad news for you, Jahm: these low-lifes use the telephone and the street-cars, too.
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  34. I've reported this as "abuse." They don't have a category for random stupidity.
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  35. He's too busy worrying about whether Vance was really such a wise pick to put on his ticket.
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  36. And you off your meds, too, Mikey?
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  37. @logicalpolice Do we really want a force of you chasing down logic and punishing it like this?
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  38. One problem is that the legal weed stores can't make a living as long as the streeet competition is tax free. High weed taxes are a subidy to criminals.
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  39. You seem to be protesting the fact that their arms are illegal. Do you even read what you write, anonymous TABNDT?
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  40. Pending trial and sentencing.
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  41. How many times do I have to tell you, Sean? You can get bail too, if you insist. You just need to take the trouble to get yerself arrested, rist. Sheesh!
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  42. "They had just barely skimmed the tip of the ice-burg." Berg. You're right, there is still lots of work to be done. Much of it in the schools, as you are showing us. Painful indeed to watch.
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  43. Uh, Mr. Wan, this is partially Mr. Ford's Provincial Police doing very good work. Or didn't you notice? Or do you perhaps have a fact you'd like to tell us about? <re-reads profound letter-to-the-editor> Hmmm. Thought not.
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