WARMINGTON: Masked Christmas shoppers on bail hunt for gifts with hammers
You take your life in your hands now when going shopping at the mall
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When gangs go Christmas shopping, they bring hammers, guns, bats and masks – sometimes they even drive around the mall in a stolen getaway car.
You take your life in your hands now when going Christmas shopping at the mall. Walking around in a shopping mall is different than it used to be because you just never know when the bad guys will strike.
Imagine what it must be like to work in a business within a mall – especially in a jewelry store.
Sitting ducks. That’s what they are.
It’s no longer a matter of will a swarming gang show up to wreak terror as they smash display cases and leave with expensive merchandise – it’s now a matter of when will they come.
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It’s so ironic that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his failed government are putting out another list of guns they want to ban or take away from legal target shooters, collectors or hunters, and even offer some of them to Ukraine to use to kill fellow human beings in Russia, because they never seem to get the guns off the gangs who use them at will.
Trudeau hasn’t yet offered any of the gang’s confiscated guns to Zelenskyy to fight Putin.
Meanwhile, the biggest war being waged might very well be here in the Greater Toronto Area where violent crime is out of control while the government talks about investing in climate change and jets around the world in a massive pollution-emitting passenger jet.
In just about every case involving violent criminals, suspects have already been arrested in previous criminal counts but have been released on bail or parole.
In other words, whatever crime they committed out there is the fault of the government, a judge or a justice of the peace. They never own up it or pay any kind of price or even say they are sorry that they got it wrong. The system instead goes after a Metis grandmother organizing a protest or a Northern Ontario mayor who says no to the woke agenda.
Canada throws the book at people like peaceful Tamara Lich or great grandfather Mayor Harold McQuaker. The real criminals, meanwhile, are not only given a pass but also encouragement.
In fact, our system says sorry to them – and lets them go free as soon as possible, so they can get back at their passion.
That same system that is so hard on those who are easy to rough up also loathes to pay the police, who not only catch these alleged criminals but catch them over and over and over again.
Something that needs to be said again is what an outstanding job York Regional Police did in arresting may of the dozen or so alleged participants in the smash-and-grab robbery of a jewelry store in the Markville Mall over the noon-hour on Wednesday.
“Four suspects were quickly taken into custody. Two additional suspects were located hiding in the washroom of a nearby food establishment,” police said. “Investigators are currently seeking at least six additional male suspects, four of which were directly involved in the robbery and at least two acting as getaway drivers.”
“At the time of the arrest, two 16-year-old males, a 15-year-old male and Trevone Ball-Barnes, 19, were out on release orders,” police said.
And they will soon be out again. This happens everywhere now.
Toronto Police posted a message Thursday on X explaining their officers had seized seven crime guns, laid 389 charges and arrested eight adults and eight youth suspects.
The fact that eight of the accused were out on bail at the time prompted Toronto Police Association President Clayton Campbell to respond to the social media post.
“Of the 16 individuals arrested in connection with these 7 seized crime guns, half were out on bail – despite clear risks to public safety,” he said. “Our members are working tirelessly.”
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford knows the problem and has expressed frustration over the catch-and-release crisis that results in so much violence perpetrated by people who should be in jail instead of on bail.
He told reporters in July that he wanted to track people on releases from court.
“We have some of the greatest Judges (and justices of the peace) in the country, and I love the justice system, the court system, but there’s some that continuously give people bail – not once, twice, three times, four times, five times,” Ford said at the time, adding he asked the attorney general to collect statistics on bail granted by judges and JPs and take a look at how many had already received bail.
Since then, a Toronto Police officer was shot by someone on bail and the Sun has done numerous stories from a shooting at a music studio that saw a police cruiser struck with gunfire to several people being assaulted by an “alleged” puncher who was on bail.
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On Friday, the Premier’s office provided a letter written this fall to the federal government calling for reforms to ensure more people are locked up and less are released early.
“We continue to expand our correctional capacity so that space is not a factor today and will never be a reason for a repeat, violent offender to be granted bail,” the letter from Solicitor General Michael Kerzner states. “We are also providing police with the equipment they need, including helicopters and scanners to find stolen cars and drugs, and technology in Ontario police cruisers to track those on bail; funding specialized teams to tackle auto theft and violent crime bail cases; and expanding our capacity to train more police officers.”
The Premier’s spokesperson Grace Lee added that the Ford government is “working expeditiously on the bail data and we will have more to say in the new year.”
With police complaining the people they arrest are routinely on court release, a system of grading JP and judge’s performance is something the public needs to see implemented and fast.
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