80% of Arrests are repeat offenders. When is enough, enough?

Winnipeg has seen this movie before. A shooting tears through a neighbourhood, officers in tactical gear swarm the scene, and by evening the same handful of politicians are on camera calling it “not who we are.” Then the cameras leave, and nothing...

Winnipeg has seen this movie before. A shooting tears through a neighbourhood, officers in tactical gear swarm the scene, and by evening the same handful of politicians are on camera calling it “not who we are.” Then the cameras leave, and nothing changes until the next one. Ask anyone who rides Winnipeg Transit or walks downtown after dark whether this city feels safer than it did five years ago.

Anyone living the numbers, rather than issuing statements about them, knows the answer.