Well from what I have read about the pussyfoot policing in Vancouver you may be right. In countries where policing is taken seriously they would be rubbing their hands in glee at these pictures, places where people shown in grainy half-lit photos are picked up within hours.
Enjoy living in your bubble, you are more under surveillance than you think.
Within hours? An unverifiable fact is presented in an extremely subjective manner. The accuracy of this fact is called into question by looking at world affairs in recent years. Short of violating human rights or having police forces numbering in the hundreds of thousands themselves, what you propose is ludicrous. Arrest everyone and detain them until they give up evidence or their friends? Pursue everyone? What are these people guilty of once you apprehend them? The majority of them are in pictures standing around. The handful that are flipping cars? You would spend a ton of money pursuing them to do what? Give them destroying property charges? Those are minor charges.
So what would you then suggest? Jail terms? In what manner does the public benefit from this? Canadians are mostly laid back people. These people are not criminals. Most of them are your customer service reps, your salesmen, your mechanics. You would spend millions in resources trying to apprehend 10's of thousands of people and clog the legal system for decades....all for the purpose of convicting a small percentage of those actually charged with minor offences?
Or were you just providing a generic and poorly defended opinion the intent of which was to channel your emotions into an irrational statement presented as fact?
We have a system in Canada. It may not be perfect, but it's far and away better than any system you would seem to advocate. The public good is looked after and as a nation we get along quite well. In fact, Vancouver has routinely ranked near the top of "best places to live" in the world. We are all very happy with ourselves. You may not be able to understand it, but everything about Canada is juuuuuust right. We have as near a perfect country as exists in the world. Why don't we have police forces numbering in the hundreds of thousands and summary executions? Because, quite frankly, we don't give a ****. We are great people who live in great cities. Occasionally we burn them down when our hockey team loses, but that's par for the course.
Anyway, you make a blanket statement with "what I have read" being the supporting evidence. Congratulations. You have read a handful of opinion pieces on the internet. Perhaps we should indeed defer to you on this subject. You clearly know enough to slander the police force of an entire nation justifiably.
But it's alright. I'm not upset. There's plenty of opinion-first thought-later people on the interwebs.
As for living in a bubble...huh? Generic conspiracy theory? Or were you referring to the giant hotbed of activity in Vancouver last night in downtown? Are you suggesting those people didn't know they were on camera? Breaking into banks? My money is on "generic conspiracy theory".
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