thommyjo said:
The only actual solution is cutting off the drug supply by properly imprisoning anyone involved with narcotics, and actual jail for criminals. The leniency of our court system is what allows this. A very small number of people cause the vast majority of disorder in our city. If those 200-300 people were all in prison for 15+ years, we’d see incredible improvements.
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Do you have a source for these stats? Otherwise, that is some serious conjecture, not to mention that disorder is a very broad concept. Given the size of Edmonton, 200-300 people seems remarkably low, as most petty crime goes unreported. Generally, 1-3% of the population commits violent crime, while higher proportions commit petty crime. Our prison system doesn't have the capacity to house that many people long-term, assuming justice reform were to enable longer prison terms. Given that we won't even commit to building more hospital capacity as a society, I doubt there would be much appetite to increase prison capacity that much, along with the associated operating costs.
 
inclusion said:
Do you have a source for these stats? Otherwise, that is some serious conjecture, not to mention that disorder is a very broad concept. Given the size of Edmonton, 200-300 people seems remarkably low, as most petty crime goes unreported. Generally, 1-3% of the population commits violent crime, while higher proportions commit petty crime. Our prison system doesn't have the capacity to house that many people long-term, assuming justice reform were to enable longer prison terms. Given that we won't even commit to building more hospital capacity as a society, I doubt there would be much appetite to increase prison capacity that much, along with the associated operating costs.
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Not a report or anything to link sorry. Brother is EPS though and they arrest the same few dozen people for most of the crimes they make our Downtown suck. Many of these people have hundreds of charges and thousands of interactions with police they rack up. He’s pretty convinced that if you dealt with these top problem causers, it’d make insane progress on public perceptions. Not uncommon for him to arrest the same person 3-4 times in a week for the same stuff.

There’s been discussion of this in other cities more publicly:

nationalpost.com

FIRST READING: B.C. report details how a few people are causing most of the crime

Kelowna says downtown is being devastated by only a handful of chronic offenders that are constantly sprung from jail.
nationalpost.com nationalpost.com
 
thommyjo said:
Not a report or anything to link sorry. Brother is EPS though and they arrest the same few dozen people for most of the crimes they make our Downtown suck. Many of these people have hundreds of charges and thousands of interactions with police they rack up. He’s pretty convinced that if you dealt with these top problem causers, it’d make insane progress on public perceptions. Not uncommon for him to arrest the same person 3-4 times in a week for the same stuff.

There’s been discussion of this in other cities more publicly:

nationalpost.com

FIRST READING: B.C. report details how a few people are causing most of the crime

Kelowna says downtown is being devastated by only a handful of chronic offenders that are constantly sprung from jail.
nationalpost.com nationalpost.com
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Federal Liberals catch and release laws. Liberals activist Federal Judges making virtue signaling laws that impact average Canadians and not the well-off Judges with police protection living in low crime situations. This is on the Federal Liberals - not Trump and not UCP.
 
The Harper government could have codified effective laws to remove violent people from polite society, but they didn't. Blaming the current limp-wristed government isn't very productive. Obviously they're insane, but so was the last CPC government when it came to violent crime.
 
Barnaby said:
The Harper government could have codified effective laws to remove violent people from polite society, but they didn't. Blaming the current limp-wristed government isn't very productive. Obviously they're insane, but so was the last CPC government when it came to violent crime.
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Didn’t they at least have mandatory minimums? Honestly I don’t care for the constitutionality of that sort of thing. Harsher criminal sentencing might be the one policy in this country that deserves the NWC, and I don’t understand why people freaked out so much when Poilievre proposed it during the election campaign.
 
Is there still any moderator from this forum versus the wider site? Before I joined, I lurked and recall more local moderation (people from the edmonton forum) where posts where moved en masse etc when folks veered off topic (which tends to happen on any forum).
 
Well, I for one am going back on topic.

I've noticed that since 104 Ave was fully reopened, many folks who are turning from 104 Ave WB to 112 St SB are making U-turns onto 104 Ave EB just to go to the Tim Horton's drive-thru. Isn't that against the law, or am I out to lunch?
 
IanO said:
The new light timing along 104ave is horrendous and it literally takes 10-15 minutes to go from 124st-109st with light traffic.
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As I was told after my 3rd time complaining about the 156st and 95ave intersection, and sending multiple videos of 3 minute cycles with less than 5 cars going through:

“Traffic signal design is done by a professional engineer and includes best practices to achieve optimum traffic flow while maintaining the highest safety possible safety standards.

Signal timing is part of an engineered design that is approved by the city and cycle lengths are designed in coordination with opposing intersection timing.”

So it seems like they’re super open to feedback…
 
Gronk! said:
Well, I for one am going back on topic.

I've noticed that since 104 Ave was fully reopened, many folks who are turning from 104 Ave WB to 112 St SB are making U-turns onto 104 Ave EB just to go to the Tim Horton's drive-thru. Isn't that against the law, or am I out to lunch?
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How soon before a car gets hit by an LRT train?
 
The only crossing gates on the Valley Line will be at the Lewis Farms OMF parking lot. They're still staying away from crossing gates at the Henday exit at 87 Ave.
 
Wax said:
They are putting gates on OMF? I thought it was completely gate free? (Not that im complaining because it means they might add more in the future)
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Just for the parking lot crossing where the trains will enter/exit the OMF. South of the big T.
 
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