Civilization is doomed if criminal behaviour isn’t stopped

By Lethbridge Herald on December 14, 2022.

Editor:

Roll shutters, locked toilets, no toilets, vacated stores, people scared to walk the streets of the city and then a letter from Ryan McAdams – “Downtown businesses deserve better” with accompanying picture. A mess left behind for a business person to clean up – repeatedly. 

More police are not the answer, laws need to be obeyed. Who wants the work of enforcement? In America, some service station operators hire armed guards to protect their operations from blatant daytime theft. Recruitment in the American army is down 15,000, National Guard down 7,500. 

Who wants to sign on to do enforcement at any level, anywhere, anymore?

 Criminals have control. Where are we heading? In Lethbridge what officers are trained to do is often hijacked by law firms and the courts protecting their “clients” from “harassment.” The stress must be surreal! 

Taxpayers get hosed by a system keeping “clients” safe, unmolested and free to riddle the city with messes, crime and hopelessness. 

All of the above is leading to a weak society taken over by those profiting by crime, super huge bucks at play, all out of the taxpayer’s pocket. I have no idea how some of the creeps profiting by it all sleep at night in their castles.

How can police officers do their job? They are bombarded with cultural sensitivity, awareness training – better to understand how and why some in the population are what they are and act the way they do. There’s a special lane in this life for those folks, and the “training” had better connect with that reality. 

 Recently, LPS “completed new ethics training.”

 How much of this can the taxpayer, and the officer being bombarded with it, sustain? The insidious picture in the Herald accompanying the Ryan McAdams piece is graphic proof of where this leads. 

A drunk was removed from a store because he was drunk. Later it was learned the man had a disorder and should not have been discriminated against. The disorder – “a degenerative disorder of being intoxicated.” Can we buy a break? 

A few years back officers stopped a car they had suspicions about. They found the rear seat full of stolen goods. That case was thrown out of court when the defence successfully argued that police did not have reasonable grounds to stop that car. Is stuff like this believable?

Until we as a civilization figure out how to stop crimes by gathering up then repairing back to productivity those lost souls committing misdemeanours affecting progress of a civilization, we are doomed long before concentrations of Co2 in the atmosphere knock us off. The stink down here on the ground will suffocate us first. 

A.W. Shier

Lethbridge