The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 16, 2024


BC Premier David Eby thinks it's discriminatory to enforce the law

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crime drives poverty
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Wyatt Claypool
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David Eby Justin Trudeau
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British Columbia is experiencing a new crime wave across the province, and it s entirely the fault of B.C. Premier David Eby, his NDP government, and their partner in crime, no pun intended, Justin Trudeau. At every turn, the BC government and the federal government have made it easier to be a criminal, and harder for prosecutors and police officers to actually do their jobs. And it s not just because they have a different philosophy towards criminal justice than you or I do. It s because they don t actually like enforcing the law.

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00:00:00.000 British Columbia is currently experiencing a new crime wave across the province, and it's entirely the fault of B.C. Premier David Eby, his NDP government, and their partner in crime, no pun intended, Justin Trudeau.
00:00:14.460 At every turn, the B.C. government and the federal government have made it easier to be a criminal and harder for prosecutors and police officers to actually do their jobs.
00:00:23.480 And it's not just because David Eby has a different philosophy towards criminal justice than you or I do. He fundamentally hates the police and sees criminals as victims.
00:00:33.220 Because a criminal doesn't have a job and they might be poorer than you, that means they're actually a victim of the person that they're currently mugging.
00:00:40.520 He has the sort of the vision that every single criminal is Aladdin, and someone trying to knock over a liquor store or steal televisions, they're actually just stealing those things in order to feed their hungry family or get bread for hungry children.
00:00:54.780 He's fundamentally backwards on this issue and is not going to correct course.
00:00:59.260 This is literally a book David Eby helped co-author before he was the Premier of the province.
00:01:04.700 It's titled, How to Sue the Police and Private Security in Small Claims Court.
00:01:10.380 And this is not a book about trying to get real justice in the court system, like you've been mistreated by a police officer and you're suing for the damages.
00:01:18.400 No, no, no. It's just about frivolous lawsuits and trying to use technicalities in order to effectively steal taxpayers' money from the police or steal money from private security services.
00:01:28.660 So you're doing something wrong and they maybe just miss a procedure that they were supposed to follow in trying to remove you from a premises or detain you for like assaulting someone and you still end up in small claims court to sue them for like $5,000 or whatever, even though you were in the wrong.
00:01:43.780 This is the kind of guy David Eby is.
00:01:46.220 He backed the defund the police movement in 2020 and had been a proponent of it well before 2020.
00:01:52.180 He is a man who thinks that social workers can solve everything, even while there's violent stabbings happening in Vancouver, and he just doesn't seem to really care.
00:02:02.080 And I'm not trying to blame David Eby and the BCNDP for having inherited a crime problem.
00:02:08.500 They inherited the best position BC has ever been in when they came into power in 2017.
00:02:15.340 In 2016, BC had its lowest rate of crime in over 40 years.
00:02:20.560 In Canada in the 1990s, we had the highest rate of crime we've ever had.
00:02:25.360 And when we actually started enforcing the law in the late 90s and the early 2000s, both federally and provincially, crime rates started falling off heavily.
00:02:34.280 So the BCNDP had inherited the lowest rate of crime ever, and they proceeded to spike it because they don't actually like enforcing the law.
00:02:43.620 And I just want to highlight one aspect of a policy they passed last year that's having really detrimental effects today.
00:02:51.760 All their policies have been bad.
00:02:53.240 Safe supply, decriminalizing drug use, and also just telling police basically not to enforce the law on petty thieves and whatnot.
00:03:02.380 It's been extremely detrimental.
00:03:05.600 But what I want to talk about today is their unbiased policing policies, specifically the ones that they passed back in July 30th of the year 2023.
00:03:15.200 And more specifically, 0.6.1.1, promoting unbiased policing.
00:03:20.580 I just want to bring the website up right here because it's absolutely absurd the things that they want police to basically be bending over backwards to do.
00:03:28.460 This is just DEI being applied to policing.
00:03:31.180 Don't discriminate against people by actually arresting criminals.
00:03:34.620 This is the philosophy of the BC government.
00:03:37.760 So this is their unbiased policing policies.
00:03:41.580 And I want to go down to this first point.
00:03:44.680 It says, the duty of all employees is to deliver services impartially and equitably in a manner that upholds human rights and without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origins, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability, gender identity, and expression, political beliefs, types of employment, economic and social standards is communicated to all employees in the police force.
00:04:08.560 And other than the fact that I don't like the term equity, because we are now talking about equality of outcome, generally, that's not that bad.
00:04:16.680 But I want to scroll down a little bit farther to show you actually how they see this being, like actually being enforced or applied.
00:04:24.820 So it says, policy framework to support equitable policing.
00:04:27.580 The board or the commissioner must ensure that, three, the process of establishing, amending, or routinely reviewing the policing policies and procedures of the police force includes analysis or consideration of whether, A, the policy or procedure promotes equitable and impartial service delivery and public trust and confidence in the police force, and, B, individuals or groups may be disproportionately impacted by the policy or procedure.
00:04:55.120 That is absolutely insane.
00:04:58.820 So basically, they're saying, if there are a lot of criminals from X group, a disproportionate amount of them compared to their percentage of the population, if your policing procedures or policies is disproportionately arresting them or stopping them for like, you know, stop question and frish type policies, then you must change your policies or your department could be penalized or you could be fired.
00:05:22.480 So if there's a lot of criminals from X group, and they are maybe 10% of the population, but they are committing 35% of the thefts in a certain area, if you are applying policies, procedures, and laws on them by a 30% margin because they are 30% of the criminals, you are disproportionately discriminating against that group.
00:05:44.580 This is the death of criminal justice in British Columbia, and it's actually very racist and bigoted in a lot of different ways, because it's saying that that group, if because people tend to live around people who are a lot like them, if that group has a certain amount of criminals in their population, if you arrest said criminals, you're doing something racist.
00:06:05.240 That, in fact, is the most racist thing I've ever heard. That X group, just random group must live around more criminals because it would be racist to arrest them. So they get to live with more criminality, with more drug use, with more theft, destroying their community, because the government just says you guys get to live with it, because we've determined that it's like part of your culture to have a lot of criminals around. 0.98
00:06:27.500 And it's not just a failure of the government to not enforce the law heavily enough in those areas. Oftentimes, groups in regions that have high crime rates have suffered in the past from not having enough police, and yet now the government is saying it's discriminatory to actually do the equitable or equal thing and actually send more police to those areas and arrest the criminals, police their communities, so small businesses don't go under.
00:06:51.740 It's in fact a complete myth that poverty drives crime. Poverty does not drive crime. Actually, crime drives poverty. There's a reason why there can be an economic boom in a city, and yet jobs and unemployment rates can fall, and the unemployment rate spikes in certain areas, because no matter how well the economy is doing in that city, the crime rate in that one area of town is so bad, nobody even wants to bother risking trying to make money in that area,
00:07:20.920 because it's just not going to happen. A good example out of the city of Chicago, every Walmart, I think in a certain area of the city of Chicago would have shut down.
00:07:29.040 There is, in fact, probably billions of dollars, millions of dollars every single year in running a Walmart, in theory, in the city of Chicago, but in 15 years, Walmart hadn't made a single dime in Chicago because of the high theft rate.
00:07:42.680 And now the people in those areas of Chicago are, you know, they don't have cheap grocery stores to shop at. Now they must shop at smaller convenience stores, smaller grocers that have higher prices because they don't, like, they don't obviously engage in as large of an economy of scale.
00:07:59.780 In British Columbia, this is why nobody wants to run a business on the east side of Vancouver. There's too much crime. It doesn't matter how many people are there, because everyone has to eat, everyone has to buy certain products, but people don't want to offer those products in that side of the city, because every day they get their windows kicked in, they get theft, and it's not worth it anymore.
00:08:18.480 But David Eby thinks that thieves, they think that muggers, people who stab other people, they're just Aladdins. They're just going around and stealing to feed hungry children. And how dare you criminalize their poverty? They're not committing crimes because they're poor. Technically, every criminal is poor because they don't have a job because nobody wants to hire a criminal.
00:08:39.280 They're in fact poor because they're a criminal, because they are an unreliable person who you would not give money to to do anything. And if you actually want real rehabilitation, you must first arrest them, incarcerate them, and enforce the law on them.
00:08:54.200 You can't just hand out pamphlets trying to suggest that people stop committing crimes. You must actually enforce the law. And there's other books. I highlighted this How to Sue the Police book that David Eby wrote.
00:09:05.660 He also has other books about basically how to get away with crimes when the police pull you over or they stop you for something. He has a fundamental low view of the police. And so I think, especially if David Eby leaves office, there should be somebody prosecuting him or investigating him for him knowingly increasing the rate of crime for his hatred of police.
00:09:28.120 Because if you're in office and you do things to make people's lives worse, you should be prosecuted. That's just an evil thing to do. David Eby has just a pro-criminal philosophy, and that is an evil philosophy fundamentally.
00:09:44.120 This is why, if you're in British Columbia, you should be voting for the BC Conservatives.
00:09:48.860 Yes, the crime rates were low when the BC Liberals were in power, but that's when the BC Liberals were a little bit more conservative since it was a Big Ten party.
00:09:58.100 The BC United now, who are the former BC Liberals, share David Eby's philosophy because they are completely confused on policy, and they want to have it both ways.
00:10:07.980 They kind of want to act like the BC Conservatives, and they kind of want to act like the NDP.
00:10:11.900 That's not a winning philosophy. That is a confused philosophy. And a lot of the issues that we currently have are based off of policies the BC Liberals had first set up.
00:10:21.300 We didn't see the giant crime spike coming from those policies until the NDP intensified them, but don't trust the BC United to clean this thing up.
00:10:28.940 They've never proven that they actually know why the crime rate was lower when they were in power.
00:10:33.820 So vote for the BC Conservatives if you're in BC. I live in Alberta, and your guys' crime rate will eventually affect the Alberta, like the province of Alberta.
00:10:44.340 We already have your guys' safe supply drugs coming over the border, so the biggest favor you can do for us out here is get rid of the NDP in the fall and get rid of all of these stupid provincial decriminalization and pro-criminal laws. 0.71
00:10:57.180 Anyways, that should be it for me today. I just quickly want to plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
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00:12:01.760 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Have a go one.