That sound you hear is the leftist narrative crumbling...."Toronto murders drop after Jamaica-based gang crackdown"
"Police in Toronto and Jamaica say gang-related homicides have significantly declined in the 20 months since the arrests of key leaders of the Shower Posse, a violent criminal organization involved in drug and arms trafficking that operates in several countries."
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h/t Chayisun who writes: "Pierre Elliot Trudeau, through his friendship with Michael Manley, the now dead former Prime Minister of Jamaica, threw the doors open to Canada for immigration from Jamaica. Most of them, unfortunately, settled in Toronto, creating dens of crime in areas such as the Jane and Finch corridor, Scarborough and other places.
People who expressed dismay at the swarm of Jamaicans who arrived, many straining the welfare system, were painted with the usual racist brush.These same people waited for the expected boom in crime. Didn't have to wait long....Drugs, murder, robberies and other crimes soon became news of the day and the number of dead blacks..(at least they, for the most part, were killing each other) increased day by day and month by month. AND, it was commonplace NOT to point out that the criminals were, in fact, blacks.
Gunplay soon was erupting in downtown Toronto, causing death to innocent shoppers and yet the politically correct twits wouldn't, or couldn't believe that Trudeau's long ago idiocy was, in fact, a contributing factor to the mess.
And, now "they" say there is reason for optimism. Optimism died the day the Trudeau opened the door...."
Anyone want to bet that this will be spun into the claim that the decline was due to the gun registry and gun control.
There is actually a good comment to that effect at the CBC.
I think the sound you hear is Barbara Hall knocking at your front door for having the audacity to tell the truth.
Haven't you read The Star? Don't you know all the crime is actually caused by a lack of social programs and racism?
And too few Basketball courts!
Pierre. Create a divisive crisis in order to have a solution that cemented more power for him or his handlers. Things have evolved since one of the Innocents that went to Red China passed on. A cog in a grander scheme.
Even the liberal civil service of the day advised Trudeau not to let Jamaicans in without visas because of their high bastardy and crime rates.
And Mulroney did something to massively increase Jamaican immigration too undoubtedly hoping they would turn into the Wops* of the Red Tory Party in gratitude.
*You're allowed to hit your own group so I'm allowed to say that.
Midnight basketball courts.
Good Lord. The reason it worked was because they took the guns out of the hands of criminals, not the law abiding,
Hear hear.
I'm brown and I've faced more racism from black Jamaicans in Scarborough in the last 4 years than I have from whites in the previous 42 years. So much for multiculturalism. I had to stop taking the bus and going to the nearest public library because of the attitude I got from mostly young, female black jamaicans ready to beat me up.
That is sad and now we are left to shoulder the burden of multiple generations of fatherless children raised on welfare.
And I'll tell ya, Canuckistan666, these self-same "young, female black jamaicans" who have bullied you strut their entitled stuff all too often in far too many schools where nobody does a thing because if an eyebrow or a voice is raised at these vixens they'll yell, "racism!"
I'm sorry. The "racism" is entirely on their side.
There is a lot of crime in Jamaica. Common sense tells you you will import the crime too. Of course, jamaica's problems are just colonialism, ya know?
Why are you against traditional Jamaican culture features such as violence, drug taking and unemployment. Whaddayou? Some kind of anti-multiculturalist?
Multi-culturism allows foreigners to bring the 'best' of their cultures to be integrated in the overly-white overly-peaceful, overly-hard-working culture of Canada. This way you are saving the planet by not having to fly to Jamaica, but to merely step outside your door (if you live in downtown Toronto), and this keeps the planet cool by reducing your carbon footprint.
Oh, and the chance to have a plate of authentic Jamaican food at the annual food fair is worth all the trouble anyway. Without the crime, more police would be unemployed and the legal system would be employing fewer staff.
Overall, by any measure, a win both for Jamaica and Canada.
(/sarc)
"Most of them, unfortunately, settled in Toronto..."
As bad as this is for Toronto, I kind of hope they stay out of the rest of Canada.
"Trudeau's long ago idiocy ..." Excellent.
We should never, ever interfere with Black people killing other black people. Same for the middle east.
It's funny, but there was a case in London where Jamaican gangs tried to roll in and set up shop. Well they did for a bit, the area degenerated into a shit hole pretty quick, stabbings, robberies, and all the crap toronto had going on. The cops for a better word were helpless, and hand tied by the chief. Oddly it got better almost overnight. Anyone want to guess why?
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Hell Angels rolled up, ruthlessly crushed them, literally. Most of them were beat to an inch of their lives left at the corner of rideout and dundas st and that was pretty much, and they rolled back out.
Well that was effective!
Been to enough of these incidents myself in Scarborough. Bullets flying past innocents, brains oozing out onto parking lots, etc. The place where I grew up ruined by Trudeau's policies.
It's why 95% of our high school classmates moved farther away.
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