True Patriot Love - TPL Crime Update： Gun-for-Hire Networks & Canada's Bail Reform

00:00:00.320 why why are we these young people doing this you know who are they who's their family who

00:00:06.080 are their connections what are what is prompting them to take these actions i i'd like to know

00:00:11.440 because quite frankly there's got to be a reason well whether it's psychological whether it's

00:00:15.600 social or whether it's criminal like i think we just to say that it happened i guess mike where

00:00:20.880 my frustration is coming a little bit i i don't want to do that anymore i don't think the public

00:00:25.360 wants to hear that anymore they want to hear okay why is this happening who prompted them to do it

00:00:31.520 why did they do where did they get the gun again where are the guns coming from

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00:01:30.460 This is our crime update.

00:01:32.900 We do it every week.

00:01:34.100 And joining me, as he does, to talk about that, Paul Micucci.

00:01:37.320 Thanks, Paul.

00:01:37.920 I'm ready, Mike.

00:01:38.700 I woke up this morning, and I was raring to go.

00:01:41.780 My son, my youngest one, is actually starting summer school.

00:01:47.960 I should point out, when you say that, generally speaking,

00:01:51.040 people are like oh he's he struggles no he's advancing himself these kids so we jump in the

00:01:57.600 car and we actually head to school and i get a call from the office here and they say you're

00:02:03.680 late for a conference call which i missed for some reason uh it's early in the march it's like eight

00:02:08.880 o'clock so i'm i'm in the car and i'm rolling along i'm on this conference call i get to the

00:02:14.320 school and i wave goodbye and just as i wave goodbye i remembered and it just hit me because

00:02:19.200 i look forward in the car and there's a bunch of cruisers and there's one of those investigation

00:02:24.640 units the the motor homes that they set up uh and i remember the news from late last night that in

00:02:30.400 my neighborhood a gentleman actually shot two people and he's on the run armed and dangerous

00:02:35.840 right beside my kid's school so so anyways you're on a conference call so i'm on a conference call

00:02:43.520 he's be lying across to the football field to meet his buddies probably you know to do whatever

00:02:48.400 and quite frankly he's not heading into the school so i said to my wife i put it on mute i

00:02:52.960 say do me a favor go get him get him in the bloody school right so you know what what a start to the

00:02:59.280 morning that is a that's startling right it's scary and the the whole drive for the next six

00:03:05.280 blocks was barricaded off with cruisers trying to triangulate this person who's now uh armed

00:03:12.000 and dangerous moving in this community and he shot two people last night shot two people they're in

00:03:16.560 a critical condition so let's uh hope for them ah yeah and uh the police uh catch the guy in

00:03:22.560 the neighborhood yeah did you check the garage before you left yeah well you know it's funny i

00:03:26.720 was out this morning doing some things and it did come across my mind the only thing i came across 0.81

00:03:30.960 was a bloody coyote who was as big as a freaking uh husky uh running through my front yard i don't 0.79

00:03:37.760 know where these coyotes are coming from a story for another day but indeed are they getting bigger 0.94

00:03:42.960 or are they getting bigger well i've heard estimates of 50 000 plus in the gta in the way

00:03:47.840 of population there's got to be and this thing looks like a large dog like this is not a small

00:03:52.880 animal and it's coming straight through literally i'm standing there and it's coming straight through

00:03:56.880 my front yard at full clip yeah it's uh every day more and more sightings and people like right at

00:04:01.840 their front doors and stuff they're yeah they're getting less afraid of humans and interacting

00:04:06.080 more isn't working well i'm glad you you know what two close misses this morning i'm glad you're here

00:04:11.380 Yeah, thank you.

00:04:12.300 Story number one, Toronto police linked dozens of shootings

00:04:15.320 to multi-layered gun for hire network.

00:04:19.020 You know, we caught sort of a glimpse of this discussion last week

00:04:23.960 after the tragic shooting of Constable Mark Pinazato.

00:04:29.580 And now as they go deeper into this, chief of police saying,

00:04:35.060 yes, in fact, this is a gun for hire network that focuses on using youth.

00:04:38.920 right and they're communicating them with them through a social email whatsapp app and uh quite

00:04:46.200 frankly it's it's a little crazy because he uh you know police chief demke who i'm a fan of i

00:04:51.660 said in other shows i'm like okay we're trying to figure out who is behind this and i'm like okay

00:04:58.440 you have all their social now right you must be able to track somewhere where these messages are

00:05:04.340 coming from and where the where the monies are being sent to pay them and and so now i'm gonna

00:05:10.120 make okay there's got to be a there's got to be a link here and how fast do we move because this

00:05:15.500 has to be with everything going on in vancouver and toronto right now this has to be like number

00:05:22.260 one or up there in the priority list it's got to be okay we need to cap this because we don't know

00:05:26.360 how big this is and how many communications is it like how many people is this how big is the

00:05:31.240 message these people are trying to deliver at a time where we have mass crowds from around the

00:05:36.500 world and at these games well are you following this ufc story that's breaking actually this

00:05:42.220 morning in the u.s no so so this is crazy remember uh freedom 250 you know the ufc 250 right so you

00:05:50.180 know they barricaded these people in a park and had them watch the the game on the screen okay

00:05:55.220 right there was uh there are uh a group that was trying to uh basically that had snipers and a plan

00:06:04.880 to rush the white house and everything and they arrested them this morning it was all over the

00:06:09.720 news in the u.s i did see a glimpse of that yeah yeah and i'm like wow this is crazy like that's

00:06:14.560 a crazy story and they they wanted to get the crowd rolling uh towards the sniper group that

00:06:20.600 they had set up in the park to start shooting certain people and then move towards the white

00:06:26.300 house so they wanted to cause a disruption have everyone stampede in a certain way strategically

00:06:31.160 shoot people with the snipers and then move towards the white house this is and they're

00:06:35.180 I think they've got now six or eight people arrested well so when I'm listening to this

00:06:41.020 I'm like okay make that connection yeah I'm trying to figure out like you know how bad are

00:06:46.540 these stories we're hearing right now 27 separate incidents thought to be executed through this

00:06:53.320 network and now if you had this network of ready to shoot individuals you probably would test them

00:07:01.280 out in a couple of places that sent a message before you actually executed what you wanted

00:07:06.180 to do with them because i mean 27 separate incidents i'm i'm gonna say we've only got

00:07:11.460 two of the people so far that are in this

00:07:13.760 network. Right. That could be

00:07:15.600 fairly expansive. This is scary

00:07:17.560 stuff. It's very frightening. Very scary stuff.

00:07:19.860 Next one on the docket today.

00:07:22.400 Kind of related.

00:07:24.000 See if we make a connection here.

00:07:25.760 Saskatoon guns and gangs investigation.

00:07:28.580 Youth charged after

00:07:29.660 a shooting. Saskatoon police say that their guns and

00:07:31.720 gangs unit is charged at youth following

00:07:33.660 an investigation into a shooting in the

00:07:35.620 Fairlight Drive area. The case

00:07:37.580 adds to ongoing concerns about youth involvement

00:07:39.760 and violent crime and repeat firearm incidents in canadian cities and where they're sourcing

00:07:45.280 their inspiration and firearms so once again police in saskatoon yeah facing similar frightening

00:07:53.280 moments yeah again you know the on the last show we went into it the who what why where how so

00:08:00.800 that's where i'm kind of i want to break it down now when you hear these incidents why why are

00:08:06.000 were these young people doing this you know who are they who's their family who are their connections

00:08:12.160 what are what is prompting them to take these actions i i'd like to know because quite frankly

00:08:16.880 there's got to be a reason well whether it's psychological whether it's social or whether

00:08:21.120 it's criminal like i think we just to say that it happened i guess mike where my frustration is

00:08:26.560 coming a little bit i i don't want to do that anymore i don't think the public wants to hear

00:08:30.800 that anymore they want to hear okay why is this happening who prompted them to do it why did they

00:08:36.720 do where did they get the gun again where are the guns coming from this is the thing it's so wild

00:08:42.080 to me they're recruited through encrypted messaging apps yeah how do you recruit how i need to

00:08:48.640 understand how are you doing this like what do you why do i get on an encrypted messaging app

00:08:53.680 like why all of a sudden do i actually find myself in front of a computer on a map and then i action

00:09:00.000 it how's your headspace as a youth to receive a gun okay what's the process we're gonna set we're

00:09:07.100 gonna mail you a gun yeah go find a gun at learn to shoot it go online and read this do you already

00:09:12.860 have a gun like how like what's the process here to recruit i think it's important that we find this

00:09:17.800 out yeah we got to break these down i think it just you know just reporting them in 30 seconds

00:09:22.140 and never saying oh that's too bad and going on never hearing about it again i will tell you that

00:09:26.000 We reached out to Toronto Police Service this week.

00:09:29.360 I think they're very busy this week, of course.

00:09:31.220 They've got pretty major things going on here in the city.

00:09:35.860 But they did contact me back and say,

00:09:38.260 we'll have a conversation about this.

00:09:39.700 Maybe I'll be able to find out

00:09:40.860 if they have any more detailed connectivity.

00:09:44.520 Is this an act of terrorism?

00:09:47.440 Is this a foreign body?

00:09:48.680 Is this somebody from within?

00:09:50.320 Is this cartel-related?

00:09:52.240 Where is the inspiration coming from?

00:09:54.840 and why are the youth being able to accept it and act on it?

00:10:00.240 Story three today,

00:10:01.360 OPP sees over 40,000 kilograms of contraband tobacco in Six Nations.

00:10:06.060 Now, I know people, you're out there buying your cheap smokes.

00:10:08.720 Don't look at me like you're not.

00:10:10.380 This broke on June 17th.

00:10:11.800 The OPP and Six Nations Police, CBSA, and other agencies

00:10:18.300 described this as a large-scale illegal tobacco manufacturing operations

00:10:23.340 that took place on Six Nations territory.

00:10:26.420 40,000 kilograms of contraband tobacco,

00:10:28.520 300 kilograms of shisha tobacco.

00:10:31.620 Anybody?

00:10:32.840 Shisha tobacco?

00:10:33.880 What is that? 1.00

00:10:35.200 He's smoking in a pipe, like a hygge pipe. 1.00

00:10:37.220 So shisha, you go to clubs now. 1.00

00:10:40.860 They're after-hour clubs. 0.93

00:10:41.980 Oh, okay.

00:10:42.760 Not that I do it.

00:10:43.700 Oh, I know what you're talking about in the water pipes.

00:10:45.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:46.880 It's a whole strategy, and you've got to be good at it 1.00

00:10:50.180 to get a good shisha. 1.00

00:10:51.360 Oh, well, I'm going to work hard at it.

00:10:53.460 The estimated street value of the tobacco was about $10 million.

00:10:56.520 Now, here's what's interesting, Paul. 1.00

00:10:58.320 This is a non-Indigenous criminal network. 0.98

00:11:01.300 They knew this going in. 0.99

00:11:03.400 So they are doing this, and they're operating on the territory.

00:11:09.380 So it behooved the Six Nations police and OPP to take care of this

00:11:16.640 because it's impeding proper granted business

00:11:20.040 of the indigenous community.

00:11:22.280 It's, you know, it's not safety marked in any way. 1.00

00:11:26.400 The operation photos that I saw,

00:11:28.180 I mean, it looked like my dad's basement

00:11:30.880 before he finished it when I was a kid,

00:11:32.780 that they were packing these smokes. 1.00

00:11:36.160 But the fact that it's a non-indigenous criminal network 1.00

00:11:39.120 operating the territory, 0.98

00:11:41.100 like, it funnels money away from the indigenous community 0.96

00:11:45.240 into the crime community.

00:11:46.640 uh anyway canada border services agency got involved in the investigation and have ramped

00:11:53.360 it up to see where the connection to distribution is and they're finding that out now well let's hope

00:11:58.860 because it again you know you hear so many issues in the indigenous world uh that require funding 0.76

00:12:05.440 right now we're hearing water issues again we're hearing a bunch of just disheartening things that

00:12:10.520 i thought we'd gotten past you know as far as living conditions and quite frankly you know 0.98

00:12:16.060 to have the monies not go back to the indigenous people in the proper way right yes it's and you

00:12:21.400 know seriously bad it's so funny because uh you know we say okay it was a cigarette manufacturing

00:12:27.540 opportunity or whatever tobacco but that's a major historical and uh cultural element of the

00:12:35.880 indigenous community they've dealt tobacco yeah to their own community for for many many years

00:12:42.400 This one's interesting.

00:12:43.860 Try to unravel this one for me if you can, Paul, okay?

00:12:46.440 Okay, got it.

00:12:47.320 Four individuals charged after an extensive $48 million fraud investigation.

00:12:51.620 The Waterloo Regional Police has laid charges against four individuals

00:12:54.740 following a lengthy investigation into an alleged fraud scheme

00:12:57.820 involving firearms, ammunition distribution,

00:13:01.940 and the investigators allege that the accused used a network of companies

00:13:06.000 and financial transactions to defraud investors, lenders,

00:13:09.100 and business partners of approximately $48 million,

00:13:14.380 making it the largest financial crime investigation

00:13:17.100 in the region's history.

00:13:18.600 Waterloo.

00:13:19.420 What's going on up there?

00:13:20.780 Once a high-tech hub and now, quite frankly,

00:13:24.220 home of BlackBerry and all the legendary tech companies.

00:13:28.000 Now you've got this group of individuals,

00:13:30.980 white-collar crime, firearms and ammunition distribution business.

00:13:35.860 I'm thinking, wow, so okay,

00:13:36.880 so i guess they go get people to invest in it because they're going to bring guns and ammunition

00:13:41.520 and distribute them across the nation you know they have a business plan they go out they issue

00:13:46.960 here's the crazy thing they issue 20 000 fraudulent invoices wow so you know oh my god i've sold this

00:13:54.960 you know so here are all these invoices 20 000 so they're saying to the lenders we've got all

00:13:58.800 this incoming revenue yeah here's our sales sheets here's the money we're making quite frankly

00:14:04.320 it's not there uh huge losses so 48 minutes so they do this to the tune of 48 million in losses

00:14:12.000 so they make fictitious books i guess they claim itc's from the government they uh you know file

00:14:18.640 bankruptcies you know all this stuff anyways they get away with 48 million dollars what will happen

00:14:25.840 of it you know it's white collar crime you know we talk about you know just blue collar crime quite

00:14:32.000 a bit on the show and whatever but white collar crime it's even worse very seldomly does anyone 0.52

00:14:37.120 get any uh sentencing or anything of any uh material amount while they have peeled through

00:14:42.800 48 million dollars of investor money well and i you know it's sort of uh coming out of covet i i was

00:14:49.760 not involved but one of my good friends uh was uh part of an investment structure that had a housing

00:14:55.840 business thank goodness i didn't put any money into it but it turned out to be bogus quite frankly

00:15:01.040 and there was someone running and took their money

00:15:03.880 and it was millions and millions of dollars.

00:15:07.060 And the interesting part is the gentleman's actually resurged

00:15:10.220 and he's actually back who took the money

00:15:12.500 and he's back building again.

00:15:14.540 Unbelievable.

00:15:15.360 Yeah, so he goes to show you sort of what happens

00:15:17.960 on some of these cases.

00:15:18.900 The bigger the crime, white-collar crime,

00:15:21.540 the better off you are, it seems as well.

00:15:24.460 Yeah, too big to kill, right?

00:15:26.300 And so quite frankly, a lot of times

00:15:27.860 these things just resurge back again.

00:15:29.540 but it's disappointing for all those people in waterloo that thought that this was a good business

00:15:33.780 plan and back because it does take your faith away and you know investing money and it's hard enough

00:15:39.060 nowadays you know you put your money into the stock market you put your money into all these

00:15:42.740 different structures and you know you're you're losing it because the market's going up and down

00:15:48.020 like a yo-yo based on the next you know conversation that donald trump has with someone in a foreign

00:15:53.060 land right you know so where do you take your money you try to put it somewhere where there's

00:15:56.820 a business you can see you put into business you can see and this happens right yeah and you know

00:16:01.780 to the people who are uh anti-guns and ammunition rest assured 48 million dollars worth of nothing

00:16:07.700 occurred in the guns and ammunition business in waterloo now look like it uh this week i think

00:16:13.860 the biggest uh fish to fry in canada has been something that has been on the brew in our minds

00:16:20.580 for a long time i think that we held the government accountable long enough to see this happen and

00:16:25.380 And I'm delighted to see that it has happened.

00:16:28.680 But it looks like we are actually getting bail reform in Canada

00:16:32.740 that might make us all a bit safer.

00:16:35.080 Monday night.

00:16:35.960 And it was quietly passed.

00:16:37.500 That's interesting.

00:16:38.400 Bill C-14, the federal government passed its bail reform legislation,

00:16:42.560 and now it's up to the provinces to make it work.

00:16:45.600 So they kind of, we're going to go through this for a minute.

00:16:48.240 I'm not, we're going to do a show on it.

00:16:49.600 But I just wanted to highlight some of the things about it.

00:16:51.920 They kind of passed the buck now over to the provinces.

00:16:54.700 And for most of you know, the criminal offenses in Canada primarily sit with the provincial governments.

00:17:01.620 Right.

00:17:01.980 So, and it's in the past, you know, it's been based on the federal government sort of sets the tone and sort of the general policy rules.

00:17:11.420 And then you have to follow them.

00:17:13.160 So this piece of legislation had over 80 targeted changes to the criminal code on bail and sentencing.

00:17:21.100 and it's going to go into effect 30 days from monday night okay so it's going it's actually

00:17:27.620 it's it's in effect yeah so quickly so these are a lot stricter laws just to give you some

00:17:33.680 highlights right because i think this is really important um they're making bail harder to get

00:17:39.580 for those of q accused of repeat and violent offending by creating new reverse onus rules

00:17:46.260 in certain cases meaning the accused must now show they should be released that's pretty

00:17:51.740 significant you have to prove your release yeah that's very significant it's like proving your

00:17:57.320 innocence before you even have to arrive into court this has got to be this is going to be a

00:18:03.120 difficult process for many people to get through right and this is reverse of what it was before

00:18:07.480 so before you just had someone show up a bondsman or a family member and say i'll vouch for them

00:18:13.120 and you are basically out in the wind, right?

00:18:16.880 It directs the police to detain and accuse for all bail hearings

00:18:21.960 when it is necessary to protect the public,

00:18:24.960 include victims and witnesses.

00:18:27.200 So now the police can make the call.

00:18:29.180 So the police don't have to just let them go if they're required to.

00:18:33.000 It requires courts to consider more factors at bail hearings,

00:18:36.020 including whether the allegations involved violence

00:18:38.440 that was random or unprovoked.

00:18:40.600 So if you just went and did something randomly,

00:18:43.120 like you know this this thing in my neighborhood they catch the person they're not going to let

00:18:48.240 them out on any type of bail they don't require to prove themselves yeah exactly um so this is so

00:18:55.280 we talked about prohibit it prohibits courts from naming anyone as a surety who was convicted of a

00:19:01.520 criminal offense in the past 10 years okay so you can't have one of your gang members you can't have

00:19:07.280 one of your crime syndicate bail you out so you know the stories we heard about people you know

00:19:13.880 the town that had three people that had uh basically uh perpetrated 90 of the crimes

00:19:23.280 that won't happen anymore so they're in so funny that you cut that off that that one element of it

00:19:30.440 is consistent across the country in smaller to medium-sized cities and towns yes there's

00:19:37.060 a consistent four or five people that just keep getting back out exactly now sentencing laws are

00:19:44.000 changing too and they're getting tougher it requires consecutive sentences for violent auto

00:19:49.380 theft and break and enter so now you get consecutive sentence right so which wasn't there

00:19:54.620 requires consecutive sentences for extortion and arson and requires judges to consider consecutive

00:20:00.240 offenses for repeat violent offending these are all ticking the boxes of the things we

00:20:06.400 really couldn't i and and frankly paul all of those items just seem like a logical logical steps

00:20:13.320 to incarcerating violent people right so the interesting part and it got a little bit of you

00:20:18.900 know of course the liberals loved it they said you know we finally uh collaborated with the

00:20:23.820 provinces and stakeholders to make uh bail reform changes that will have uh rapid structural changes

00:20:33.180 The conservatives criticized the bill of not providing or not prioritizing

00:20:37.680 public safety enough, advocating for stricter bail measures

00:20:41.100 and mandatory minimum sentencing.

00:20:43.440 So they still want to go a little further.

00:20:45.640 NDP raised concerns about disproportionate impacts on indigenous

00:20:49.140 and marginalized communities and emphasis evidence-based community-focused solutions.

00:20:54.380 I don't know what they mean by that.

00:20:56.580 The block questions the bill's effectiveness and warns of potential risk

00:21:00.640 to judicial discretion and presumption of innocence now this is an interesting one so

00:21:06.320 they do have a point here which is i can see that one a little bit the judicial

00:21:09.840 discretion right yeah so what we've done kind of here by changing the sentencing and reversing

00:21:17.460 you've now left a bunch of discretionary decisions by provincial judges yes so uh you know you've

00:21:24.440 we've been reading a bunch of articles across the nation about how now provinces have to go

00:21:29.820 and provide training to their judges who they've appointed

00:21:32.400 to make sure that their rulings are consistent across.

00:21:36.680 With the changes, yeah.

00:21:37.520 Right, so that's a training exercise.

00:21:39.640 Well, Sean Fraser says that they're putting money behind,

00:21:42.760 the federal government's putting money behind updating the judicial community

00:21:47.780 on how this needs to work specifically.

00:21:51.260 Yes.

00:21:51.800 So, I mean, the one thing I will say is it gets very specific.

00:21:55.860 I mean, I blushed through it.

00:21:58.460 I mean, you went into more detail,

00:21:59.580 but what i noticed was it got very specific about how this is to be executed it was

00:22:06.300 really specific in many spots yeah no no listen it you said it on the way in when we were talking 0.99

00:22:13.660 about it the provincial governments want more power yeah so with that demand or with that ass

00:22:21.580 becomes the the judgment or responsibility now is on you right so now it's on to the provinces to

00:22:28.700 say okay you have the power to do this i've created the the bail reform legislation that

00:22:34.140 gives it to you now how do you use it and that's an interesting thing in politics because you know

00:22:39.740 watch what you ask for because now when something on the bail side goes awry there's going to be

00:22:45.500 fingers pointed at the provinces now so this is a big you know this really quietly on monday night

00:22:52.140 went through you know we're at the end of you know legislative sessions and you know everywhere

00:22:58.060 everyone's going off for summer and this one goes through now if i sit and i don't do anything and

00:23:03.740 this reform is in place it's enacted in 30 days and something bad happens the federal government

00:23:09.820 should say well they went away for the summer they didn't put this into place so this is really

00:23:14.460 interesting because now oh right all the provinces are scrambling a little saying okay how do i get

00:23:18.940 something in place to make sure i don't have a problem and then your issue which you pointed out

00:23:24.540 out to me just before the show we're coming back to the show we did months and months ago is where

00:23:30.740 do you house these people and what do you do them with them as you're actually waiting for them to

00:23:35.200 go on trial right as you're denying bail you're putting them up we don't have the resources so

00:23:40.100 now what's that doug oh uh doug ford's uh taking bids right now in private prisons yeah i can see

00:23:46.360 that oh oh and daniel smith cut a deal with trump to send you to alcatraz but right now we don't

00:23:51.800 really have the facilities to house people yeah we have to have that discussion sooner than later

00:23:56.480 and we have to figure out where that budget comes from again with huge budget deficits here we are

00:24:01.200 again with the same issue where does the money come with how do we allocate it where does it go

00:24:06.080 who builds it which we've been notoriously slow on building infrastructure as we've talked on

00:24:11.660 the major projects now it's in the provincial hands to do that how can they do that you know

00:24:17.780 right now i have to think about you know if i'm in their shoes i have to think about large empty

00:24:22.820 buildings that i can actually transform transform uh at least temporarily because i have a holding

00:24:30.740 issue right i have a security holding issue that i have to deal with and so now i'm looking around

00:24:35.620 saying okay you know which large company is left uh hopefully finding something on the outskirts

00:24:42.020 almost an american idea right go you go to the outskirts of major cities into small communities

00:24:48.840 you find abandoned warehouses and and homes and farms or whatever you find you you uh renovate

00:24:55.920 them you turn them into prisons and quite frankly you barbed wire them you you put fences up and

00:25:01.560 we do have a few of those as i made my way through merrickville uh between uh ottawa and

00:25:06.340 uh toronto there there's one of those out there and it's like a farm field yeah it looks like a

00:25:11.860 major industrial farm but it's it's actually a prison i uh what about the ev plant i'm just

00:25:17.280 making suggestions now it's empty uh by the way i said daniel steel before i meant daniel smith

00:25:22.320 just so that we are factually correct uh interesting yeah we'll be curious to see

00:25:28.140 where this dives deep and i wonder how policing feels uh how this feels to the policing community

00:25:33.820 They've, can you imagine being a police officer

00:25:37.000 and you finally get somebody, they get processed and released.

00:25:41.760 Yeah.

00:25:42.120 The catch and release must be devastating for police

00:25:44.660 trying to do good work to protect us.

00:25:47.380 But now, so the interesting thing, in 30 days from now,

00:25:50.420 it's not a hot potato anymore.

00:25:52.780 The potato's now in the provincial, you know, it's in their court,

00:25:56.940 and they have to figure out what to do with it.

00:25:59.260 Okay, we'll be following that.

00:26:01.600 Take a look at our crime pillar and all of the news pillars that we follow on TPL Media.

00:26:07.600 TPLmedia.ca slash local may just have a localized version of this for you.

00:26:13.200 Paul, thanks. I appreciate this.

00:26:14.340 Thanks, Mike.

True Patriot Love - June 28, 2026

TPL Crime Update： Gun-for-Hire Networks & Canada's Bail Reform

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