The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 17, 2023


The Canadian Left wants crime to increase

Topics
criminalization of poverty laws enforcement homelessness
Hosted by
Wyatt Claypool
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Janice Irwin Rachel Notley Jody Gondek Olivia Chow Wyatt
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In this episode, I discuss how dangerous the Canadian political left has become on the topic of crime and criminal justice in Canada, and how they have become more and more pro-crimacist in their approach to crime.

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00:00:00.260 Hello everyone, it's Wyatt here, and today I want to talk about an issue that I actually
00:00:04.180 have a fairly strong research background in, and that is the issue of crime and criminal
00:00:08.380 justice in Canada. I think that the Canadian political left has moved away from just being
00:00:13.140 dumbly naive on the topic of crime to being flat out dangerous. I don't think it's an 0.74
00:00:17.680 exaggeration to say that the Liberals and the NDP, federally and provincially, as well
00:00:21.900 as many municipal politicians like Jody Gondek in Calgary and Olivia Chow in Toronto, have
00:00:27.620 just become flat out pro-criminal. Their ideology has taught them to see criminals as somehow
00:00:33.300 victims of society, that because criminals are naturally poor, that somehow it's the fact
00:00:39.240 that they're poor is the reason why they're criminals, not just the fact that any criminal
00:00:43.740 is naturally going to be poor because, you know, they don't have jobs because they're
00:00:48.320 criminals. And I have a perfect story to highlight just how dangerous the NDP, specifically in
00:00:54.040 Alberta's perspective has become on crime. You can easily apply this to any party on the
00:00:59.560 left in Canada because they pretty much all share this perspective, but Janice Irwin from 0.55
00:01:04.080 the NDP in Alberta seems to just say it completely out loud what the left's perspective on crime
00:01:10.220 has become. So there's the story in Edmonton where the Edmonton Police Service was going to
00:01:15.280 move about 150 homeless campers off the streets, naturally because it's just, you know, a criminal 0.99
00:01:21.720 act to try and just live on the sidewalk in an encampment. It's loitering, it's illegal
00:01:27.300 camping, they're usually using drugs, they're usually involved in theft and other sort of
00:01:32.400 violent acts. And so naturally the Edmonton Police were going to move this. It actually
00:01:37.620 concentrates the crime in the area and it vastly increases it once the criminals, and like you
00:01:43.160 could say, are you trying to criminalize homeless people? No, but naturally homeless drug addicts
00:01:48.340 usually are committing crimes. Any one of them, you could go up and probably find about seven
00:01:52.440 illegal things they're doing per day. And they're not on the streets because they're poor. Poor
00:01:57.020 people don't tend to just go and live on a tent on the street. They usually go and, you know, live with
00:02:01.620 a family member, go and try and find ways of cutting expenses, having to switch jobs. Yes, it's terrible
00:02:08.600 to be poor. Everyone sympathizes. People on the streets are not just experiencing poverty, they're
00:02:13.500 usually experiencing drug addiction or some sort of mental illness. But Janice Irwin has the perspective
00:02:19.280 that if we enforce the law on these people and we move their encampments and trying to actually force
00:02:24.140 them to get help, that is criminalizing poverty. So here's her tweet right here. She says, and she
00:02:31.340 tags Rachel Notley because Rachel Notley was putting out this letter basically going after the Edmonton
00:02:37.400 police. And as insane as is, there has been now an injunction against the Edmonton police that they
00:02:42.580 do not get to move this homeless encampment causing crime, hurting businesses in the area, and likely
00:02:47.740 leading to many violent assaults. But Janice Irwin says, Rachel Notley and I are calling on the UCP
00:02:52.500 Solicitor General to immediately put a stop to the plans to evict unhoused Edmontonians from their
00:02:57.220 encampments. We must stop criminalizing poverty. We can't enforce our way out of the housing crisis.
00:03:02.580 This is not a housing crisis issue. The reason that these people are on the street is not because
00:03:07.260 they couldn't find an apartment. It's because they cannot get a job because they're on crack.
00:03:12.140 That is not an issue that you can solve by keeping them out on the street. And I would love for Janice
00:03:17.100 Irwin to tell me just how many months or years are these homeless people going to stay out there
00:03:22.920 until they just sort it all out and they go get a good job and start living like a normal life again.
00:03:29.440 It's not going to happen. If anything, she's basically stumping to have these people deteriorate 0.97
00:03:34.580 on the street and die as her sympathetic approach to crime. The thing is that the best thing for these
00:03:40.220 people would be to make sure that the law on loitering and camping was strong enough that
00:03:45.020 these people would have never been able to settle out on the streets. I've talked to police officers.
00:03:50.060 The problem with these encampments especially is that it centralizes where drug dealers go and sell
00:03:54.900 drugs. And when these people don't have money, they naturally steal to be able to sell something or
00:04:00.100 to steal cash in order to buy more drugs. Janice Irwin pretending that she's not criminalizing 1.00
00:04:05.960 poverty by refusing to enforce the law on these homeless individuals is not being sympathetic.
00:04:12.200 She's allowing them to destroy themselves and she's allowing them to destroy businesses and other 1.00
00:04:17.340 people's lives along the way. She is absolutely pro-criminal. She thinks that because somehow these
00:04:23.680 people are poor, that the reason that they're committing crimes, i.e. living on the streets,
00:04:28.740 using drugs openly, buying drugs, and then stealing to buy drugs is somehow just because
00:04:34.820 of the poverty issue. I can tell you through my research, poverty has very little to do with crime.
00:04:41.440 People will point at the fact that, well, criminals are poor, ergo, they're stealing because they're
00:04:45.540 poor. It's this idea that every... One of my favorite YouTubers uses this example, actual justice
00:04:51.280 warrior, and he's absolutely right. The left sees criminals like Aladdin, that they're all just
00:04:55.440 running around trying to steal televisions and other items so that they can go feed their hungry kids
00:05:00.680 at home. It's not how it works. Crime has very little to do with poverty. It's actually crime that
00:05:06.940 drives poverty, not the other way around. Because poor people, when you go to specific neighborhoods
00:05:12.700 in different cities, do not commit crimes. If anything, it's an insult to pretend that someone
00:05:16.900 who is materially sort of not well off is a risk factor of committing a crime. Through my research,
00:05:23.960 I can tell you that I can go to one neighborhood in Toronto that has a high assault rate, and if I
00:05:30.020 leave 10 minutes away to an area of Toronto that is actually less well off in terms of the median
00:05:35.780 income, that place will have way less crime. And it's because they have two things. They have strong
00:05:41.000 families, and they have a strong educational achievement culture. If you go to an area that has a lot of
00:05:46.700 single parent households and low educational achievement, it doesn't matter if they make four 1.00
00:05:50.900 or $5,000 more than another neighborhood on average, they are going to commit more crimes because they
00:05:57.260 do not have strong social stabilities in their lives. You cannot give those people money and just
00:06:02.720 bribe them to not commit crime, which is the left's perspective. That somehow, if we just give out
00:06:08.480 enough social security sorts of benefits, if we have more welfare programs, somehow people are just going
00:06:14.980 to decide to not commit crime. People who commit crime do so because they're criminals. You shouldn't
00:06:20.920 overcomplicate this by pretending that if we just sort of give them enough benefits that they're
00:06:26.220 somehow going to just, you know, skip out on the crime trade. Usually, you're not going to be able
00:06:30.820 to pay for this person's drug habit. A lot of these people are going to just steal, they keep stealing
00:06:35.740 so that they can buy more drugs. There's not a sort of an amount of money per month that will
00:06:41.000 take them out of this lifestyle. It has become a lifestyle choice. And the idea, it's nutty that
00:06:48.880 they put an injunction against the police moving this encampment. Somehow, leaving these people on
00:06:53.620 the streets is good for them is horrifyingly unsympathetic. If you actually had empathy,
00:06:58.760 you would want them forced off the streets into rehab programs where they're not going to freeze to
00:07:03.840 death in the winter and they're not going to stay on the streets using drugs that could potentially
00:07:07.780 kill them. The safe injection site culture that we have towards drug addiction is extremely
00:07:14.860 dangerous. The idea that if we just supply safer drugs or we just allow people to use their drugs
00:07:20.980 in safe, supervised areas, somehow we're going to crush the upward trend in drug use is insane.
00:07:27.900 By putting a safety net out for drug addicts, you're not going to make them being less likely to
00:07:33.740 use drugs. You're just allowing them to OD a few more times before they die. I would rather have a
00:07:39.400 much more aggressive intervention to make sure they stop using drugs so there's no chance that they
00:07:44.060 could OD. But the left thinks that somehow drug use is actually somehow, you know, a revolutionary act
00:07:51.140 against the system. And that by trying to make sure that someone doesn't use drugs or force them to
00:07:55.860 not use drugs, it's like the man coming down on them and trying to keep them safe. As if that's a bad
00:08:01.480 thing, that if we keep people safe from themselves and we keep other people safe from people who are 0.96
00:08:07.640 criminals, that we're criminalizing their poverty, that we're criminalizing their mental health
00:08:12.400 issues. Basically, the left thinks that the way that you reduce crime is you stop considering things
00:08:18.460 crime. If we stop considering retail theft crime, if we stop considering homeless encampments crime,
00:08:23.960 if we stop thinking that assaults are crime, it's just a mental health issue. Somehow we can have a
00:08:29.180 zero crime rate by just taking every single criminal act out of the criminal code. This is
00:08:34.940 basically what the liberals want to do is lower penalties and eliminate crimes, pretending that
00:08:39.800 we've somehow dealt with a problem when we've literally just ignored the problem. Trying to
00:08:44.720 decriminalize drug use and selling of drugs does not get rid of the fact that is an immoral act that is
00:08:51.220 hurting people. Pretending that by just writing into legislation, this is no longer a bad thing does not
00:08:58.180 make it a non-bad thing, but this is where the left comes from on crime, that we can just legislate
00:09:04.160 our way out of the issue and not actually have to do any enforcement whatsoever. The reality is,
00:09:09.720 if you want less crime, you have to make it difficult to be a criminal. And that means very
00:09:13.820 strong enforcement. It means police on the ground. And whenever someone tries to start a homeless
00:09:18.040 encampment, they're moved along, they're pushed aside, and they are forced to figure out where they're
00:09:22.900 going to live, whether it's a homeless shelter or they have to call up their sister and say,
00:09:26.440 I'm going to crash on your couch for a couple months while I got a new job. That's what you
00:09:31.040 have to do. You're never going to be able to soft hand people into responsible living. It has to be a
00:09:35.760 bit of a hard shove at times. Every once in a while, we get a unicorn story where someone in a homeless
00:09:41.360 encampment was handed a pamphlet about getting off drugs, and they do it. But that's not the majority.
00:09:47.060 And we can't hope that people who are on drugs or criminals are going to act like law-abiding,
00:09:53.060 rational citizens, and just determine that maybe this isn't the lifestyle for me, and figure out
00:09:58.040 something else. It does have to be, at some point, society does have to come down hard on people who
00:10:03.520 are making life harder for everyone else. But that's, I guess, it for me today. Hopefully, I didn't sound
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