Pubdate: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2015 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329 Author: Hans Reichel Page: 12 GANG BUSTERS Reading in the Ottawa Sun how people are mad at police for not doing enough to curb the gun violence by gangs and making them feel unsafe in their own streets. The police are doing all they can. When they do something and a criminal gets hurt, we get on their case and cry "police brutality", when they do capture someone and he goes to court, the judges more than likely will throw the case out or slap the wrist of gang bangers and they are out in the street again, armed, for the next event. We have taken away the edge from law enforcement and given criminals the edge instead! What do you want? You can't have it both ways. Either give the police the tools to get the job done to protect us or let criminals run rampant over us as they are doing now. Gangbangers are not stupid! They know they can do just about anything they want and they will either never be caught or, if caught, the likelihood of anything happening to them is so slight, it's negligible. Also, many gangbangers are under 18 and therefore, cannot be identified in the press or anywhere else because of our Youth Criminal Justice Act. Unless things change drastically, get ready for much more violence from drug pushers and other criminals. Also, private citizens can't even protect themselves legally from home invasions, theft, abuse or other violence. Good luck in the new year! Hans Reichell, Orleans - --- (The police do an excellent job, all we can do is trust the system) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom