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[Victoria Watcher]

it's bias for sure.  i see that other cultures are given additional benefits or legal leeway that others are not in many situations.  for example imams that openly promote violence in western countries.  or female genital mutilation that is actually somewhat widespread in this country but never ever prosecuted despite it being illegal.

 

i see things in town here too like "marginalized" individuals not being given citations for helmet laws or trespassing or vandalism etc.   different set of rules - or lack of rule enforcement - for some.  

 

our legal system has statutes set that ensure indigenous offenders receive lighter sentences for the exact same crime as non-indigenous might commit.  two sets of rules there.  legislated bias.

 

indigenous-on-indigenous crimes especially on reserves are hardly investigated and prosecuted due to authorities being "delicate" about the subjects.   

 

so yes call me cynical or biased.  i'll agree with you.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 July 2019 - 03:11 PM.

[Mike K.]

🚔Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index Up For Victoria, Esquimalt🚔

Victoria BC – Crime Severity Index (CSI) numbers, released by Statistics Canada last week, show that crime severity is up inVicPD’s policing jurisdiction inclusive of Victoria and Esquimalt.

The CSI or Crime Severity Index, is a Statistics Canada tool for measuring police-reported crime that tracks changes in both the severity and volume of crime (learn more about the CSI here). It is updated annually. A rise in CSI often indicates that the public are reporting more crimes to police and that these crimes are more severe.

Statistics Canada CSI analysis mostly focuses on larger urban centres. Victoria and Esquimalt are part of the Greater Victoria Census Metropolitan Area or CMA, and much of Statistics Canada’s analysis is made at this level. However, the extended CSI data allows for understanding of trends within VicPD’s primary service areas of Victoria and Esquimalt*.

Key preliminary 2018 findings in the Victoria and Esquimalt CSI data are:

· Victoria & Esquimalt saw a crime severity index increase of 5.15%.

· Canada’s overall CSI is 1.9% higher nationally. The CSI for B.C. is 0%. Victoria and Esquimalt’s 5.15% crime severity increase is above the national and provincial trends – nearly 3 times the national average and over 10 times the provincial average.

· Victoria & Esquimalt’s violent crime CSI increased 2.49%.

· The national violent crime CSI increased by 1.4% but decreased for B.C. by 1.59%.

· Victoria & Esquimalt’s non-violent crime CSI increased by 6.18%.

· The national non-violent crime CSI increased by 2.4%, and increased for B.C. by 1.06%.

· The 2008-2018 ten-year CSI trend shows an overall drop in crime severity.

· The 2013-2018 CSI trends shows a steady increase over the last five years.

CSI crime data only captures Criminal Code of Canada offences. Non-criminal incidents, including those involving supporting those suffering from mental health crises, sudden deaths, non-criminal traffic offences, protests, missing person and check-wellbeing calls are not captured by the CSI crime data. While crime data is a useful measure of trends in the community related to crime, it does not solely reflect all challenges related to community safety.

Additional analysis of CSI data and trends will be continuing on the weeks and months ahead.

*As the CSI data is based on the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey on Police-Reported Crime, Victoria and Esquimalt’s crime data are reported together.

[Victoria Watcher]

once there was a time when police forces would brag about how they decreased crime in their jurisdiction.

now it’s VicPDs job to show how bad it is.

[Mike K.]

There was a stabbing in Esquimalt over the weekend. The male victim is in his early 20’s and will require surgery. The wounds are not life threatening.

[Nparker]

...Victoria & Esquimalt saw a crime severity index increase of 5.15%...Victoria and Esquimalt’s 5.15% crime severity increase is above the national and provincial trends – nearly 3 times the national average and over 10 times the provincial average...Victoria & Esquimalt’s violent crime CSI increased 2.49%...

Bring it on? 

[FawltyVic]

once there was a time when police forces would brag about how they decreased crime in their jurisdiction.

now it’s VicPDs job to show how bad it is.

It's of course worse than reported. There's a lot of homeless on homeless crime that goes unreported such as assaults. There is a code of silence. Street people like to think they can sort it among themselves and anyone who goes to the police will most likely have a rougher time of it.

[Victoria Watcher]

well there is lots of that in the general population too. if every bar or house party fight or every domestic violence case ended up in courts they’d be jammed.

[FawltyVic]

it's bias for sure.  i see that other cultures are given additional benefits or legal leeway that others are not in many situations.

I will agree with you that in Canada under our legal system, no one is considered equal.

[FawltyVic]

well there is lots of that in the general population too. if every bar or house party fight or every domestic violence case ended up in courts they’d be jammed.

True, but what I mean is while at work downtown in an 8 hour period, just in one street block alone I saw 3 assaults go down.And then people can go for a stroll past Centennial Square on your lunch or break and you get to witness more. I've called police before but having a member of the VCP trying to get either party to talk is a difficult task.

[Victoria Watcher]

I will agree with you that in Canada under our legal system, no one is considered equal.

women receive lighter sentences than men for the same crimes and sentencing varies widely by geography too.

[shoeflack]

Very interesting read on those two gentlemen who were murdered in Ucluelet last year. Basically sums up what everyone was already assuming. They key part of the article.

 

Postmedia has learned that the pair agreed to sail from Panama to Canada with a load of cocaine, believed to total several hundred kilograms. The person behind the smuggling operation is a full-patch Hells Angel, the sources said.

 

As the men got closer to the B.C. coast, they encountered a U.S. government vessel and panicked. They dumped most of their illicit cargo overboard.

 

The problem is that they kept some of the cocaine for themselves without telling the person who hired them. Their plan was to dump it at the last minute if they saw anything suspicious as they approached Ucluelet, the sources said.

 

While authorities didn’t intercept Archbald and Daley, and the remaining cocaine, when they arrived in Ucluelet, associates of the Hells Angel did.

 

Postmedia has learned that Hells Angels Chad Wilson — a friend of the person behind the cocaine shipment — was tasked with taking care of “the problem” in Ucluelet. Wilson, who was murdered last November, was on Vancouver Island at the time that Archbald and Daley went missing, sources confirmed.

 

https://vancouversun...s-15-months-ago

[Victoria Watcher]

no surprises here. that breaking the code guy has it right.


https://breakingthec...lboats-ecuador/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 August 2019 - 09:15 AM.

[Mike K.]

🚔Witnesses & Surveillance Video Sought In Stabbing Investigation🚔

Victoria, BC - Investigators are seeking witnesses and surveillance video after a man reported being stabbed in the area of the Fort and Moss street intersection.

On Sunday July 28th, Patrol officers were called to the Royal Jubilee Hospital just before 3 a.m. for a report that a man had been stabbed and sought medical assistance. The male victim had suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The victim and a friend reported that they had been skateboarding eastbound on Fort Street when they became separated. In the area near the intersection of Fort and Moss streets a man unknown to the victim attacked him. The victim was stabbed in this attack.

The victim reported he was able to push his attacker to the ground and fled to his friend's residence in the 1400-block of Fort Street. There, a couple unknown to him let him into the building. He was then transported to hospital.

The suspect is described as a Filipino male.

Investigators are looking to speak with the couple who let the victim into the building, as well as any other witnesses. Officers are also looking for any surveillance photos or video from the Fort and Moss street areas that may have been active at the time of the incident - between midnight and 3:00 a.m. in the morning of Sunday, July 28th, 2019.

If you have information please call (250) 995-7654. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477

[Victoria Watcher]

it all sounds fishy.

[Rob Randall]

You need a sharp eye to tell a Filipino from a Hawaiian or a guy from the Dutch East Indies.

[Victoria Watcher]

how do you become “separated” at 3am riding skateboards.

[Victoria Watcher]

The detectives came knocking at her Tumwater home on a warm evening in spring.

Chelsea Rustad wasn’t in trouble, but police wanted to chat about one of her relatives. He was under investigation for murder.

Maybe, she thought, they had the wrong house.

“Your mind races,” she said. “Is it an immediate family member? Where is this going? They’re kind of seeing the confusion and the apprehension on my face. Why would you be on my doorstep, coming from Skagit County?”

That same day in 2018, police arrested her second-cousin, William Talbott II. Rustad knew the name but not the man, except as a node on her family tree on Ancestry.com.

 

 

https://www.oakbayne..._medium=twitter

[Victoria Watcher]

Reported shooting shuts down Victoria street
Bay Street is shut down between Forbes and Victor streets after police received reports of a shooting Tuesday afternoon.

[SimonH]

 

 

Reported shooting shuts down Victoria street
Bay Street is shut down between Forbes and Victor streets after police received reports of a shooting Tuesday afternoon.

 

 

Reported shooting shuts down Victoria street
Bay Street is shut down between Forbes and Victor streets after police received reports of a shooting Tuesday afternoon.

Is that 3 shooting or the same one 3 times ??

Edited by SimonH, 06 August 2019 - 12:36 PM.

[Mike K.]

I've removed the duplicate posts.