**********UPDATE: See exactly who's getting smoked in Toronto.
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More Police Officers specifically targeting the particular demographic (what the loony left refers to as racial profiling) involved in snuffing out hundreds of human lives each year, has resulted in both a drop in shootings... and the body count in Toronto.
TORONTO — The explosion of gun violence that convulsed Toronto last year, as the rest of the country looked on aghast, appears to have been checked by an aggressive package of police tactics that was three years in the making.This is a strategy that succeeds where the Farmer Bob Rifle Registry falls flat on its face.
After a small army of officers descended on the tough-as-nails Jamestown housing project in the city's northwest corner in May, scooping up scores of alleged gang members and associates, Police Chief Bill Blair warned that there could be no cure-all to the plague of shootings that killed a record 58 people under intense media glare in 2005.
Instead of focusing nearly 2 billion dollars on farmers, deer hunters and target shooters, the Toronto police decided to go into the neighbourhoods where most of the murders are being committed, instead of watering down their effort by equally distributing resources throughout Rosedale & Forest Hill... to keep an eye on the criminals themselves.
As the Toronto cops take down the shooters, more people in the 'communities' involved seem to be getting over their reluctance to give the bad guys up. It's a struggle, but the numbers suggest law-abiding people in these urban ghettos are tilting towards fighting crime as well.
In sharp contrast to what's happening in other major Canadian cities, a blend of strategies targeting violent offenders has put a sizable dent in the havoc wrought by Toronto's guns and gangs.Just think what Bill Blair could accomplish if he had additional funds to hire more coppers.
In part that's because of a modest but perceptible new willingness for witnesses to step forward, says Staff Inspector Brian Raybould, who heads the homicide squad.
I've got an idea where that money could come from.
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COMMIE PINKO SIDENOTE: Please spare me ALL the inevitable vomit & pus of so-called "progressive" weak-sister comparisons to the repugnant philosophies of Adolf Hitler, or the KKK.
Instead, maybe someone could tell me why none of the droning, maddeningly predictable lefty-zoids ever mentions the racism of, say... Robert Mugabe?
And for the readers who inevitably get insane with rage any time someone uses a generalisation in an argument, I will say that I have to agree with Jeff Goldblum from 'The Big Chill' when he opined, "Generalisations are more important than sex".
Or, as Victor Davis Hanson says....
It is certainly true that the emergence of minority rights and grievances has chastised Americans from making generalizations that are valid in the majority of cases, but ridiculed because there are occasional exceptions.LAST WORD: The hits just keep on comin'
If one were to conclude that Swedes were dour, prone to drink, large, and sometimes moody, based on what I have seen of my family, I would tend to agree as a rule—with the qualifier I have met many who were sunny, tiny, and abstainers.
But nevertheless that stereotyped portrait remains a good enough truism.
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