In the Toronto Sun, Bob MacDonald's Sunday column should be worth reading. He has received emails, letters, and phone calls from citizens on Toronto's situation and how to fix it.
*** I'll outline some of their suggested solutions. Believe me, they are no pussy-footers. ***
*** "At one time, lawmakers and law breakers were as opposite as night and day. But somewhere, somehow, the line has gotten blurred. The police--the very men and women who put their lives on the line for us each and every day--have, to some, become the enemy." ***
"The problem is that we've got too many myopic left-wing pussycat do-gooders that can't see the forest for the trees."
"Ever since the early 1970s, the Liberals have proven time and again their loyalties are with the criminals. The lax laws, the minimum sentences, the early releases, the even softer convictions for re-offenders."
[. . . . ] They blamed politicians for being opportunists who weakened the criminal justice system by getting rid of capital punishment, bringing in weak, permissive special laws for young offenders, introducing and keeping a wide-open, poorly enforced immigration system, and for undermining the police.
And they blamed the judiciary for handing down "slap-on-the-wrist" judgments and sentences that make a mockery of the criminal justice system.
