I may be somewhat out of the loop, but I will feel free to conclude that law enforcement officials and politicians are over paid and indolent. Every time there is a violent crime the two parties that taxpayers pay to keep us safe issue statements of shock that such a thing can happen in the affected community, and the statement that there is no room in our communities for such crimes falls like a meteorite. The media also publishes long soliloquies about the grief, and useless reports on the crime timeline.

There is no end to crime

Guns are virtually banned in Canadian cities and shootings are as frequent as morning coffee. Just watch the next federal election for insurrectionist politicians to lament about guns and violent crime. Watch for them to plot the path to richer corporate entities and create conflicts which corner provinces into using the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights. No end is insight for any crime except for those removed from the criminal code. I do not put it past a political party to use crime statistics to justify fascist policy and martial law. White collar crime like Ford is suspected of committing in his handling of the COVID 19 pandemic and the Greenbelt land grab may also disappear just so Canadians can feel better about waking up. The goal ought to be reducing mortality. Everyone hates aging and death.

At the other end of the crime wave and the police lying and politicians creating unlikely scenarios, there are religious people who seem to think that their goodness and spiritual elevation are contributing to the reduction of crime. Perhaps we can expect regimes to arise that will copy the religious republics with their inhumane ideologies and hypocrisy and make more sinners feel better. I assure you there is a lot of room at the top of religious organizations for crime and violence and inhumanity.