One of the signs of summer is that the city has decided to patrol our street corner more regularly. What that translates into is having two RCMP officers (both pseudonymously named "Jimmy") walk up and down the street arresting people for loitering and searching them for drugs and paraphernalia. They write them $250 tickets for loitering and arrest them for the drug related shtuff.
People who loiter don't have $250 in my world. The tickets later turn into warrants, which then result in people being picked up for those. Then they spend 30 days in remand because they can't pay the fine, which by now has doubled. I'd love to know how much is spent on this whole process. I'm betting a housing subsidy costs less.
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excellent point.
ReplyDeletewe have some guys that hang out in the park near our house. occasionally have to call an ambulance for the passed-out and/or otherwise non-responsive sorts but have received a lot of grief from neighbors who say i'm wasting valuable resources. but i can't just leave 'em out to die out there on my watch.