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Current Affairs 2007 - Police (105 items)
| May 9, 2007 | Duo Sentenced In Major Marijuana Grow Operations
Two men charged in connection to two of the biggest marijuana outdoor grow operations have been convicted and sentenced...
"The mere suggestion of profiling has undermined the important work of OPP officers," said Fantino in the release. "In this case effective communication linked the individuals, their vehicles and their criminal associations to other grow operations in Ontario long before the men were observed by OPP investigators taking their shopping lists into the stores."
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| May 9, 2007 | High- Powered Tool Against Grow-ops Introduced Langley BC - Marijuana growing operators will have to worry about more than police starting this month.
The Public Safety Inspection Team are ready to set out, going to homes that have been shown to consume an unusually large amount of electricity.
The team will be made up of Township electrical safety inspectors, a bylaw officer and RCMP members who will post notices on the doors of homes that B.C.Hydro has shown to consume abnormal levels of electricity.
The home owner then has 48 hours to allow an inspection. If the owner refuses, the power to the home will be shut off, said police spokesperson Cpl. Diane Blain.
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| Apr 27, 2007 | 4/20 Day A Real Bust For Students National Smoke Up Day was a bust for almost three dozen Burlington high school students. Halton police officers made 36 arrests April 20 for drug-related offences, after police and the public school board co-ordinated an investigation at two randomly chosen Burlington high schools, Lester B. Pearson and M.M. Robinson.
[Is this why we need more cops... because they are so busy busting kids they have no time to solve murders, robberies and other real crimes?] |
| Apr 17, 2007 | LTE: Pot Busts And Police Propaganda Ladysmith RCMP Cpl. Rob Graves stated the net street value of 60 plants seized in the arrest was approximately $70,000.
Such a claim leads me to two obvious conclusions.
1 ) Corporal Graves and his "Green Team" task force from the Nanaimo RCMP have been smoking the proceeds of [drug busts] to derive such a net worth from 60 plants, as they seem to believe one plant has a street value of more than $1,000 dollars.
2 ) The RCMP [intentionally] exaggerate the value of seized marijuana crops by more than 90 per cent when it is seized as undried plants and have been doing so for years.
As the article [The Chronicle] published provided a picture, it was handy so the public can see from the wide angle of the lens shot what the police cut and weighed that day to come up with the ludicrous $70,000 value.
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| Apr 14, 2007 | Canadian, American Cops Say It's Time To End Drug Prohibition, Save Live But some former law enforcement officials in Canada and the United States who have spent years fighting the ongoing war on drugs say it's a losing battle....They include Senator Larry Campbell, a former RCMP drug squad officer and Vancouver mayor who ran on a platform of reducing harm from drug use. ...Const. John Gayder of the Niagara Parks Police in Niagara Falls, Ont., is a founding member of LEAP.
He says in the film that he gives drug calls a low priority because arresting such people isn't helping them. ... Jerry Paradis, who retired as a B.C. provincial court judge four years ago, is also a LEAP member and after 35 years on the bench, he echoes Gayder's sentiments .
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| Apr 12, 2007 | How Much Is Too Much? The cost of policing in North Bay is continually rising. We learned recently 13 members of the North Bay Police Service earned more than $100,000 in 2006. A new contract and overtime costs are driving the budget higher and municipal taxpayers are reeling with tax hikes almost triple the rate of inflation.
At the same time, the police board tells the public crime is declining in the city.
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| Apr 12, 2007 | Review: Why The War On Drugs Isn't Working
Damage Done: the Drug War Odyssey
Times and dates:
Victoria: Saturday April 14th,12-4pm at the Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra Street)
Vancouver: Sunday April 15th,12-4pm at the VanCity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street)
Damage Done Is The Smartest Documentary Yet On A Divisive Subject, With A Clear Message That Change Is Needed
In all the documentaries about the stupidities of the war against drugs, the smartest documentary yet may well be Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey.
What sets Damage Done apart is the way it approaches the issue. Connie Littlefield's documentary, for example, doesn't interview the usual suspects. It doesn't include all those you'd expect to be in favour of drugs such as Marc Emery talking about being targeted by the U.S. federal government for selling marijuana seeds through the mail to U.S. customers, members of the B.C. Compassion Club pointing out the medicinal benefits of cannabis, or protesters snubbing authority by smoking up at the annual Smoke-In.
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| Apr 11, 2007 | Police Find Marijuana Nursery For Grow-Ops A police search of an underground bunker hidden away on a rural property in the Fraser Canyon revealed a marijuana grow-operation suspected of being a nursery for other growers who buy young plants.
RCMP officers from Hope and Agassiz detachments arrested two men and a woman on suspicion of producing and possession for the purpose of trafficking 3,051 marijuana plants.
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| Apr 5, 2007 | Cops Take Kids In Drug Raid A toddler and a newborn were apprehended by police Thursday under new provincial legislation designed to protect children from families involved in the drug trade.
The joint EPS/RCMP Green Team took down a marijuana grow operation at 9:15 a.m. in a home near 190 Street and 83 Avenue. Officers seized 210 marijuana plants, worth about $210,000, and arrested three adults.
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| Apr 5, 2007 | Crime Stoppers Needs Funding Or It's Finished Cornwall Ont - If the city police can't find close to $12,000 a year for Crime Stoppers, the local agency may be forced to fold....
Johann said the group has relied heavily upon the sale of pull-tab tickets, commonly known as Nevadas, to fund their operations.
[A program that relys on gambling revenue to reward snitches - what a stupid society we live in] |
| Mar 31, 2007 | Police Endangered Kids, Man Says A Hamilton man charged in a drug raid says police broke down his door and shot his pit bull while two children were only several feet away.
Carlsin Cromwell, 26, said he will file a formal complaint with Hamilton police today claiming members of their elite drugs and vice unit endangered his children's lives. Cromwell said police fired up to seven times at Zeus, his 12-year-old pit bull.
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| Mar 23, 2007 | OPP Cop Here Faces Trafficking Charges An 18-month probe into the drug and contraband cigarette trade in this community has led to several charges against a Grenville County OPP officer.
Maurice Morrissette, 37, a resident of Kemptville, was arrested Thursday on charges of trafficking in an illegal substance, possession of an illegal substance and obstructing justice.
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| Mar 19, 2007 | RCMP Entrapped Accused, Visiting Judge Concludes Crown prosecutors have dropped drug charges against 15 people who were arrested following a two-month undercover RCMP investigation throughout the territory last fall.
Crown prosecutor Ludovic Gouallier said this morning visiting Justice Rene Foisy of Alberta sided with the entrapment argument presented in a Faro resident's case in February.
[Hooray] |
| Mar 17, 2007 | Number Of Criminal Groups Growing The number of organized crime groups in B.C. grew for the third year in a row in 2006 -- to 124, up from 108 identified the previous year, says a 2006 RCMP report obtained by The Vancouver Sun....The graph in the report looks alarming, starting in 2003 with just 52 groups and rising in each of the last three years. But the report also says better record-keeping and analysis of crime groups accounts for some of the increase...
[Duh... when the government abdicates responsibility to regulate and tax this plant like everything else from liquor to pet food, or allow individuals to grow it like tomatoes and petunias, then the only group left to grow and distribute it is the criminals, so why is this news not surprising or unpredictable? Until citizens demand the government create an alternative to the current system by using the existing wine, tobacco or liquor model or creating a new model, things will get MUCH worse before they get better.] |
| Mar 15, 2007 | Alberta Grow-Ops Growing In Size
"The number of grow-ops we're busting in rural areas is way down, but the size of each bust is way up,"...
Gillan said the surge finds police busting fewer and fewer grow-ops with less than 100 plants. Most seizures these days net about 50 kg of marijuana, harvested from as many as 5,000 plants.
[More proof that home cannabis gardeners are being squeezed out by criminals thanks to "get tough" government policies... and the public goes along with discarding common sense to support US global drug policy] |
| Mar 14, 2007 | Pushing Out Pot Farmers Marijuana grow ops are no joke in the Tri-Cities, where hardly a week goes by without a bust or a raid. And area residents are increasingly at risk of being in the line of fire when criminals try to steal from criminals. ...1) Even so, most Coquitlam residents would probably put public safety over individual rights if it would make their neighbourhoods safer. ...2) But until someone comes up with a better idea, this get-tough, search-and-seizure program is the best tool cities have to push pot farmers out.
[1) Warning lights should go off when someone tries to convince us to give up more privacy rights for public safety... 2) Many good solutions and better ideas have been suggested, but they fall on deaf ears] |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Alleged Trafficker Reels As $2.9 Million Vanishes During its three-year investigation of the Italian Mafia in Montreal, the RCMP secretly broke into cars, homes and safes of alleged drug dealers and bookmakers, seizing millions of dollars in cash and sowing dissent and confusion among gangsters that almost led to a homicide.
On the night of Sept. 14, 2006, the RCMP, acting on a search warrant, broke into a Laval home belonging to the parents of a suspected drug trafficker and seized $2.9 million.
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| Mar 9, 2007 | Toking Up To Feel Better Not Accepted As Medical Need A group of 1,492 Canadians -- 21 per cent of them in B.C. -- are allowed to get high every day for medical reasons.
But as much as Brian Riches might like to be, the inmate isn't among them.
The offender's toking finally caught up with him yesterday when members of the National Parole Board rejected his pitch that marijuana helped him chill out and actually cut the chances he might commit more violent assaults.
[Ignorance about cannabis and societal stupidity ruin lives] |
| Mar 9, 2007 | A Futile War On Marijuana Grow-ops are dangerous because they're clandestine, not because there's something intrinsically hazardous about the plants in them. The only reason for chasing them down, at root, is a prohibitionary approach toward marijuana that we don't apply to alcohol or nicotine.
The war on pot is futile. It's long since time to declare a ceasefire.
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| Mar 8, 2007 | OPP Busts Huge Marijuana Factory Ontario Provincial Police said they seized 3,100 marijuana plants in varying stages of growth, along with nearly $700,000 in lighting, and electrical and building equipment, after executing a search warrant on the former Nordik Imperial Mushroom Farm, at 1454 Highway 138, on Tuesday.
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