EDIT: If you are downvoting, please explain why. Are you OK with repeat offenders taking up taxpayer funds? Do you disagree that there’s a problem? What is it that you dislike? This isn’t a topic we can ignore.
Not long ago, there was an article posted saying that over 50% of court cases in Ontario are basically dismissed because there aren’t enough resources to handle them.
But every time I read police statements for crimes in my region (Durham), I notice a pattern:
Kaley-Ann FREIER, age 25, of Ajax is charged with: Assault with a Weapon x2 and Fail to Comply with Probation Order x3.
Keith Theodore CONSTANTIN, age 45, poses a significant risk to the community, especially children. This individual has a history of serious criminal convictions, including Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault with a Weapon, Assault with a Weapon, Assault, Robbery, Possession of Explosives, Uttering Threats, and multiple violations of probation orders.
London BOSSIO, age 28 of Whitby is charged with: Robbery; Assault With A Weapon and Breach Of Probation.
Noah COLLINS, age 21, from Brock is charged with: Assault with a Weapon or Imitation Weapon; Assault/Cause Bodily Harm; Fail To Comply With Undertaking and Breach Of Probation
Jalil Luddin SAYAH, age 28, from Oshawa is charged with numerous offences including: Pointing A Firearm x2, Assault with a Weapon or Imitation Weapon x2, Possess Firearm While Prohibited, and Fail To Comply With Release Order x5.
Marten WOODS, age 37, of No Fixed Address is charged with: Uttering Threats to Cause Death or Bodily Harm; Point a Firearm and Breach of Probation.
Michael DE LAURENTIIS, age 41 of no fixed address is charged with Mischief/Damage Property Over $5000, Theft Under, Possess Property Obtained by Crime Under $5000 and Fail to Comply with Probation Order.
Zachary LINTNER, age 33 from Courtice is charged with: Break-and-Enter, Possess Property Obtained by Crime Under $5000, Fail to Comply with Release Order, and Fail to Comply with Probation Order x2.
Joseph DAVRIEUX, age 55 from Clarington is charged with: Break-and-Enter, Dangerous Operation, Flight from Police, Operate a Conveyance While Prohibited, and Fail to Comply with Release Order x2.
These happen daily, and it seems like the all of our resources (police, courts, victim services, etc.) are being drained by individuals who are simply not compatible with society.
What solution(s) do we have that are effective and could be agreed upon by all political parties? This madness has to stop.
I’d say that the problems in the system are sooo all-pervading, that the entire system needs reform, not just any single-aspect of it…
Bias in sentencing? ( seriously, some guy murders & dismembers an Indigenous woman, so he gets 60 DAYS for it, out west? )
Replace judges with some impersonal decision-tree for sentencing, with some kind of metamoderating equivalent for ongoing recalibration…
How make certain that the more-violent-offenders get kept segregated until something changes in their unconscious-mind, if it can?
that requires a systematic triage judging of ALL cases, & prioritizing of the more-violent-offenders.
How about the whole thing where jail ( less-than-2y ttbomk ) & prison ( 2y+ ttbomk ) are NOT manufacturing high-criminality inmates?
That requires a complete paradigm change, as the entire “corrections” system ( with the falsifying-quotes on it ) is oriented to manufacturing inmates, which then helps justifying more enforcement, in the future, through their manufactured/amplified criminality.
( read Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, distilling their research into the 5 culture-levels from inmates/gangmembers in the lowest-level, to LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY-AWESOME!! at the top, & see that they have serious qualms about manufacturing mass-shooter grade people as an industry, which is what “corrections” does.
Notice that the 3 categories of “game” anchor their 5 culture-levels:
win-win game, positive-sum, alliance, anchors CultureLevel5 ( they aren’t “stages” as they call them: caterpillar->moth are stages, irreversible. These are levels or modes, reversible, except perhaps the very-top 2 )
zero-sum game, narcissism, anchors CultureLevel3
negative-sum game, nihilism, anchors CultureLevel1
: )
I think finding-of-fact & judging-of-context need to be separated, to clear-out much of the court’s backlog…
I think that as much systematic correction of the court’s process, & mechanisms, as possible ought be got in, like a thing which replaces Wikipedia, but has ONLY vetted facts in it, so that no more “reinventing hot water” as the Yugoslavs call it, or “reinventing the wheel” as others call it, is wasting our work.
I know from experience that the new system of “Duty Counsel” where there are full-time Duty Counsel lawyers … DOESN’T work, as they won’t do what they ought do, to clear-out cases.
( I had to hire a real lawyer to get all charges dropped against me: it took a carefully-phrased agreement between prosecution & me about what I was declaring wasn’t any of my stuff/responsibility. Duty Counsel should have got that done, in the previous 11 or so months. It took awhile to pay-off the $500 that that cost )
I also know from experience that … I’m not certain I’d trust ANYbody in court, with very-few exceptions ( 1 defense-lawyer I’d trust to automaticallyb understand my meaning & represent me plainly & forthrightly, 1 judge named Peter Wright, I think he retired for health reasons, brilliant loyalty to Justice, in him ) etc…
The unbelievable amount of miscommunication due to different-values, different-intentions, etc, & many of the people cluttering-up the courts system are bragging to all around how they’re getting-away-with crime, but in-court they’re crying victim, victim, victim… many lawyers I wouldn’t trust as far as I could throw ( I can’t throw even a miniaturized lawyer far: the human-scale ones I couldn’t even lift )…
The reliance on in-person-ritual is absurd: much of court stuff ought be done electronically…
Self-representation is … pretty-much impossible, in Ontario, as you aren’t permitted to see any related-court-case evidence or decisions, to be able to formulate your case ( Nolo has books on law, for the US, & self-representation is possible there, apparently )
It’s simply that there are sooo many different angles requiring drastic-improvement that for anybody to pretend “if you fix this, it’ll make the whole thing work much better” is … absolutely bogus.
EVERYTHING needs fixing in it, from what I saw.
( I’d also legislate that police HAVE TO do due-dilligence when somebody accuses someone of something, to them, instead of just joyously charging whomever the accused is… with crimes that the accuser themself committed!!
The OPP turned themself into the asswipe of a known criminal, in charging me with that criminal’s crimes, AND they wouldn’t allow anybody to charge them with any crimes that they committed from then on…
This was a guy who, ttbomk, had robbed a pharmacy with an AK-47, previously.
I was NOT impressed with that “police work”. )
Hell, the high suicide-rate among the good cops is because of rot at the top, of the OPP, ttbomk…
Would clearing-out that wrong-values brass help fix things in the courts??
It probably would help…!
Same with the good people who apparently kept quitting the RCMP ( I’ve no recent information on this, it was a couple decades ago ), also due to rot at the top, because there simply is no point in trying to make things work, when the top-brass won’t tolerate anything to be done with real living integrity…
There have to be indicators of whether a police-services organization, at any scale, precinct to national, NEEDS to have their people-in-authority forced into accountability, NOW…
I know that it should be possible to track witness-suicide rate, as a means of identifying where the police themselves are the criminals, intimidating witnesses to silence them… the signal may be subtle, but it MUST be detectable, somehow…
Sorry that this isn’t either “pretty” or “nice” or “politically acceptable” or even “low-cost actionable” stuff, but I want civilization to work right, & this stuff matters!
Finally, we have to orient to harm-reduction, primarily, as mass-shooters prove we cannot enforce Justice: when they off themselves to hide-from consequences, I hold that they’re railroading their future-incarnations, enforcing hell-lives on them, out of their narcissism…
but the one who committed the mass-shooting escapes…
So, in those cases, we are helpless to enforce Justice, in any way, whatsoever.
Which is humbling, & needed-calibration.
Once we accept that we can’t make our system enforce Justice, then we have to contemplate that all we can do is harm-reduction…
Which is true, to me.
Rule of Just Law … XOR … Rule of Legalism?
I hold that Rule of Just Law HAS to outrank Rule of Legalism.
But … while a guy named Pontius Pilate tried to make that be true, in the Christian bible, he was badmouthed both in the Christian bible AND in the Nicene Creed, for his honest efforts…
Rule of Just Law is also called Natural Law.
Legalism is also called Posit-ive Law ( what is posited is law, what isn’t posited isn’t, kinda ).
So, Pontius Pilate, the Nuremburg Trials, & … NOTHING else … seems to exemplify the West’s actually holding to Rule of Just Law, aka Natural ( Moral ) Law.
Legalism, however, defeated Pontius Pilate, convicting the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, & legalism still rules now, among the “Christian” legal paradigm of today.
https://www.amazon.ca/How-Think-Like-Lawyer-Why-ebook/dp/B08SMGMX3C/
I got far enough in that book to understand that legalism is ALL law, nowadays.
Consider the difference between objective & subjective perspectives:
Say person-A is being gradually murdered by Huntington’s disease…
& they want mercy-killing…
Say somebody comes along & wants to murder somebody who can’t fight-back, & they murder the Huntington’s disease patient who wanted mercy-killing…
Was it murder?
From whose perspective??
From the one who wanted release from being gradually-murdered by Huntington’s disease? No, it was mercy-killing ( I’m presuming it was a low-suffering method of death, in this example ).
But from the perspective of the one who intentionally murdered… yes, it was!
So, it wasn’t AND it was, murder.
See?
Subjective-perspective & objective-perspective can contradict!
Western law apparently ignores such depth, consistently…
Yet another obstacle to clearing-out the courts, isn’t it?
Whatever: there are many many points to consider, when anything so horribly complex as a legal-system needs reform, that it’d take LOTS of people’s perspectives, & LOTS of work, to identify the actual obstacles, let-alone resolve any prioritized set-of-fixes to be acting on…
It does need doing, though…
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