Some things to conceder about our Canadian inmate population.

The female offender• The Nova Institute for Women is a local

federal detention center.– Most inmates come from very abusive pasts.– 90% have addition issues.– 60% have “ diagnosed ” mental health issues.

Adele MacInnis.Warden of the Nova Institution for Women

• The percentage of aboriginal inmates in some Canadian provinces can be extremely disproportionate.

• In some cases over 90%.

Proportion of adults admitted to sentenced custody who were Aboriginal, 2008/2009

Mentally ill offenders are falling through the cracks in Canada's federal prisons, according to a new report from the Office of the Correctional Investigator.

40% have diagnosed mental health issues upon arrival and 60% upon release.

Crime and Mass Media

The eye in the sky

• Along with the increase in personal technology comes the increase in surveillance cameras.

• Law enforcement in relying more and more on these devices.

• Gone are the days of invisible crimes.

• Civil liberty groups see this as an invasion of privacy.

Toronto metro police surveillance camera

Police curser with mounted camera unit and an example of a personal recording device for police.

Canuck fans fight back

• On June 15th the city of Vancouver hosted game seven of the Stanley cup playoffs.

• The Vancouver Canucks lose 0 – 4 to the Boston Bruins.

• In the cities core are over 100,000 fans. A major riot begins shortly following the game.

• The cities down town area is severely vandalized and many bystanders are assaulted by vandals.

• This was a and deliberate act set out by only a small portion of those involved.

• More then 6,000 citizens volunteered the next morning to help shop owners clean up and repair damaged property .

Police arrested several people equipped with gas masks and gasoline bombs confirming that this was an organized riot.

Vancouver's mounted riot squad

Vancouver's Mayor visits the clean up effort.....citizens are angry at the rioters and vow to take action !

Vancouver residents place messages of support on a police cruiser

Vancouver’s citizens use mass media to fight crime... you can make a difference

• In just 36 hrs over 1,000,000 photo images and over 1,000 hrs of video tape are sent to the Vancouver police by outraged citizens.

• Several rioters were already turning them selves in knowing that their images were caught on camera.

• In a previous 1994 Vancouver riot only 6 video recordings were gather by police due to the lack of technology at the time.

• In just 17 years mass produced technology might insure that this is Vancouver's last major criminal event.

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