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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
To me, the minute that your arrested in anything related to firearms, gangs, or massive amounts of drugs, there's no way that you should get bail. Its not like these were bb guns, or rubber knives, and how do you think they're going to pay for their legal defense, probably by dealing drugs and keeping their network going.
The law needs to be ammended. I'm fine with bail for non violent potential, but the minute that they're injury or death or even the potential for injury or death, they should wait in prison until their trial.
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How would you define a gang and how would you determine who belongs to a gang? The FOB and FOBK names get tossed out a lot but "membership" is quite fluid. Unlike other gangs in our province there is no hierarchical structure, there are no clearly recognized leaders and there are few if any clearly defined roles within the group. These are dial a dopers with loose associations with each other and bonds based on a shared rivalry with other loosely associated dial a dopers.
It's also difficult to determine when there is a potential for injury or death. There is always a possibility of injury or death when drugs are involved like this. Heck, you could increase the potential for injury or death if you start locking members of rival gangs in the same remand centre placing them in close proximity to those they would like to harm anyway.
As far as their legal defence goes, I bet you end up paying for a good chunk of it. I imagine a lot of these people will obtain Legal Aid to fund their defence.
I don't know what the answer to our revolving door justice system is. Throwing everyone indiscriminantly or arbitrarily in jail until trial based on the nature of their offence may not be the answer though.