A special Crime Courts and Public Safety update is the focus of Episode 10, after a week of criminals engaging in murder, random violence, brazen theft and drug and gun crimes. All this happened as Winnipeg still hasn’t hired a new chief for the police service.
Part 1- A brief roundup of recent podcast subjects including:
– The spat between the Manitoba PC’s and spurned candidate Susan Auch continued. She says the party made a bad situation worse by falsely claiming she hadn’t filed required candidate paperwork.
– A plank of PC leadership hopeful Wally Daudrich for a Port Nelson development got a boost from the LNG sector
– The spending problem and ballooning project costs at City Hall is nailed as “a disconnect between the electorate and those in power, allowing fiscal irresponsibility to persist unchecked” in a commentary by Winnipeg Sun publisher Kevin Klein.
12.50 Part 2- Whether on a bus, walking downtown, or parking near the Children’s Hospital, the people of Winnipeg are no longer safe.
Without a chief of police in place, there’s no coordinated strategy to make our streets safe again- although cops are making arrests including taxicab passengers and right outside the downtown headquarters.
A common denominator in almost every case? A perp in breach of conditions or with outstanding warrants.
21.15- Night time violence on the streets of St. Boniface sent two women- including a 14 year old – to hospital. There was also two female seniors assaulted in a pair of downtown cases. Plus, two 16 year old boys are charged in a killing last weekend near Central Park.
28.00- Imaging racking up 68 charges all across the city.
Stealing vehicles, fuel, purses, wallets, computers, booze, while victimizing church goers, music schools, a woman and her baby in a car, we discuss the one man crime wave finally tracked down by the cops, Travis Freddie Ducharme.
32.30 – An eyewitness sent us an account of the crass behavior of opioid addicts at a St. Vital bar and grill.
They noted how multiple crews responding to an overdose there could have been diverted from taking urgent calls for help from law-abiding citizens.
Observing the overall situation, a woman online defended the efforts of police to apprehend violent criminals, writing “This place is terrible. There’s no consideration for anybody’s safety.”
We ask- Has your elected official spoken out lately?
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Today In the Winnipeg Sun:
For years, a criminal racket used three properties on Lisgar Avenue to produce and distribute crack cocaine, with three more on Austin St. North also connected to the cartel. Court heard one of the homes saw over 150 people a day come to acquire drugs.
After a forfeiture order, 21 new housing units owned and built by non-profit Purpose Construction will replace them in North Point Douglas.
The Anhart Community Housing Society will develop the new homes, arrange financing, and with the help of the private investment sector will cover equity shortfalls through the Anhart Affordable Homes 2019 Limited Partnership. Those contributors receive a 2% return as their focus is to assist in community revitalization.
All the details at-
Sunday in the Winnipeg Sun:
Last year I interviewed the family of Bradley Singer:
The IIU report just released about the Bradley Singer killing demonstrates to what end the IIU will go to exonerate police.
Gerry Singer agrees a public inquiry would be able to probe just what was necessary, and call all the police and doctors involved to testify.
Should parents and friends of mentally ill people in distress call police? Or are they condemning their children and friends to death.
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