“The suspect, he was a young guy, nice guy, a popular guy. It’s not something you would EVER expect.”Or how about...
"You NEVER hear about this kind of thing.”Eventually, though, you actually have to actually say something factual...
"Kuujjuaq has a disproportionately high crime rate for a town of its size. A total of 640 assaults were recorded in 2012, with 424 of them being alcohol related, according to statistics from the Kativik Regional Police Force.""Disproportionate", huh? When a journalist uses that word in what is otherwise a politically correct puff piece, that, for me anyway, raises a red flag.
Curious about what that actually meant, I started to Google. Turns out, it isn't what was said that's important. It's what was left out.
Apparently, Kuujjuaq is a village of 2,400 people... which works out, statistically, to every fourth person in the place taking a beating. Bear in mind, we're talking reported assaults... which are always a fraction of actual incidences.
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RELATED: Money is the solution... right?
In 2002, the entire community of Davis Inlet was relocated after footage of gas-sniffing children, screaming they wanted to die, was broadcast worldwide.When will the government stop playing, "Once upon a time..."?
Just three years later, and after $160-million in moving costs, the chief of the new community Natuashish was forced to admit that the problem was again out of control.
