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THE STATE OF OUR TORONTO.
CRIME A coherent future vision for the city must include its being a crime-free place to live. Thanks to our police department, the GTA is largely a safe and peaceful place to live for most of us.
I suppose the rosiest possible future would be a city with no crime in it at all. It's an attractive idea, and we can plan for it with a future vision that will help to take us there.
Other politicians have supported increased policing and gun bans in an attempt to reduce the numbers of crimes such as murder, kidnapping, molestation, rape, vandalism, drug peddling, home invasion, extortion, beatings, and robbery being committed by gangs and individuals dedicated to bringing anarchy and evil into common rule through their own twisted sets of rationalizaton.
The net result of these actions has been a police force stressed by lack of personnel and (with apologies to the anti-gun lobbyists, whose point of view is not at issue when discussing the results of current governmental activities) responsible gun owners who have been licenced by the RCMP to own and use their firearms in shooting matches, where Canada has excelled in world competition, feeling rightfully persecuted for their sport and hobby activities.
These two approaches are only pseudo-solutions, and are raised by politicians when the public is outraged over the criminal activities of what might be termed 'the armies of evil' (for, let's face it, that's what they are), in order to re-focus public outrage on a red herring whose head looks like more policing and whose body looks like removing licenced firearms from responsible people; and away from the fact that these nefarious activities against our peace and well-being persist.
The sad fact is that both the current civic government and the other candidates for Mayor have no real handle on what might be done to eliminate crime in Toronto. Listen to them try to dress up tired ideas in new clothing.
While working through several issues in preparation for running to be your Mayor, I examined this issue, and propose the following three-fold solution:
Increased violent crime can be stemmed and perhaps completely eliminated if it is addressed on three fronts: removal of the felons from the streets; education of children in all school districts to emphasize self-motivation skills and rewards for projects undertaken from inner direction; and more outspoken reportage in the media.
The first may be addressed by an increased visible and invisible police presence and available crime-fighting technology. While the outgoing city government has made arrangements to provide additional membership to the police force, it's the effective means of deployment, as well as the numbers of officers available, that will make the difference to our crime statistics. Deployment in a way that will almost instantly stem crime, or even better, prevent it, is an avenue to ridding the city of this serious blight on our city.
The second --teaching children to be self-motivated and inner-directed-- is designed to create a future generation of latchkey kids, who upon returning home will get involved not in gangs, but instead join interesting community groups, pursue engrossing hobbies, care for the younger children in their families or in the neighbourhood, prepare dinners for the family when they arrive home, study and do homework, and other worthwhile pursuits that children who can appreciate their own interests and abilities and sense of self-worth are more likely to do. Kids who decide for themselves what kinds of positive activities they want to pursue (self-motivation), and need no prodding from anyone to take on that expression of their interests (inner direction) do not engage in joining gangs in order to acquire a feeling of self-worth or security.
The city needs to protect itself by a system of grants to schools that set up curricula designed to inculcate self-motivation and inner direction.
And the last by encouraging the media to stop aggrandizing the perpetrators with names they love. Criminals in street gangs love to read and hear reports on themselve describing them as gangsters, shooters, etc. etc. Replacing this sanitized language with epithets like slime, pukes, murderers, damnfools, etc. would be an awakening and system shock to the criminal mind these sub-humans possess. When the rewards are lessened in the media, the acting out to receive those rewards will likely diminish as well.
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