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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
I'm willing to bet anything that the guy who stole the car has a long history with police. Car thieves usually do, and they start out young. I hope Alberta can implement the initiative they did for Winnipeg a decade ago:
A co-operative strategy heralded for dramatic cuts in Winnipeg's auto theft problem over the last five years has won two international policing awards.
In a joint statement issued Tuesday, the province, the Winnipeg Police Service and Manitoba Public Insurance said the Winnipeg Auto Theft Suppression Strategy (WATSS) has won honours from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Introduced in 2005, WATSS combines the efforts of police, probation officers, prosecutors and MPI to crack down on a subculture of city teens who habitually steal cars and drive them dangerously. Another aspect of the program is a mandatory immobilizer initiative for vehicles deemed most at risk of being stolen.
From a policing point of view, the core of the program involves analyzing data regarding teens identified as the most chronic auto-theft offenders. Police found that when a hard-core group of these teens were in custody, the rate of auto theft dropped. By strictly monitoring these youths while out in public and enforcing any court order breaches, streets became safer.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...wards-1.869629 |
It was easy for them to fix the problem after a while because the kids turned 18 and were given longer adult sentences. That was the real story. More timing than anything.