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the problem around here is retribution attacks. A partier is turfed from the bar, or has problems with another patron, leaves and comes back at closing with friends and weapons. 2 bouncers have been shot in the street in Toronto in the last couple of years, and several people have been stabbed outside the bars in London this year, all after hours.
What we need are more cops and harsher laws for weapons offences. Oh yeah and STRICTER YOUNG OFFENDER sentences.
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I don't see how stricter young offender sentences really would do anythign in this situation, in every province in Canada you have to be 18 or 19 years of age or older to enter a bar (not saying it doesn't happen). So if those who are acting in violent ways and attacking others with weapons are all of legal age, how exactly does a stricker YOA help solve anything? It's like the US passing a law saying that all left handed people need to have pink hair. It has no relevance to me.
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One really easy wat to reduce the After bar violence is to simply let the bars stay open later. Lots of times these things happen rigth at close. Why? because that's what happens when you kick a couple hundred drunk people onto the street at the same time. Some are p*ssed cause they got kicked out. Some are p*ssed casue they didn't hook up, and some are just ***holes.
If you let the bars stay open as late as they wanted you'd hav people wandering out on their own time and it would probably aleviate some of the fights. Just a thought, it won't solve the problem, but I think it would help. Also, it'd be nice to be able to stay out past 2:00 every once in a while.
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You might be on to something. I don't know how the nightclub life works in Calgary, but in an alcoholic province, the bars are open until 2:00 unless they have a cabiret licence, then they're open until 3:30, you head to the local afterhours pizza place, and then stagger home. Meaning you can leave when you want to, but your drinking options are also open much later.
Also of note in Sydney the biggest most popular bar (Smooth Herman's) which is open until 3:30 has 2 or 3 police officers stationed in the front doors of the bar, as well there is always a high number of police cars circulating the area. At 3:30 the lot infront of the bar is half police cars. Not that they're anything going on, but as a presence and deterant. (note that according to employees there there IS a fight there every night of the week)
In Halifax the police presence seems to be high as well (not as high as in Sydney, but it's a bigger place to, and I don't know where they hide) but still there. At close there always seems to be alot of police officers around.
I can honestly say I've never seen any incidents in Halifax (I've heard stories, and franly I'm not downtown that often) and in Sydney I can count them on one hand... infact on a pubcrawl we got one police officer to stop and sign our shirts (so respect is there as well).
More police, and later hours actually are good suggestions, then again I'm also from and living in places MUCH smaller than yours (Sundance has more people than Sydney, and the Halifax Regional Municipality is 1/3 the size of Calgary)