Cowtown Precinct

Rick Bell;

Under the cloak of darkness as the U.S. election results roll in, Calgary city council sets the stage for taking $20 million from the cops and giving it to social agencies.
 
If they make the cash grab at city budget time later this month for a “community safety investment framework” designed to address, among other things, “any gaps in racially and culturally appropriate services,” it will be a $20-million defunding of the city police.

What could possibly go wrong?

53 Replies to “Cowtown Precinct”

  1. Diane voted against it? I thought she and Druh shared a single, half-witted brain.

    I’m not sure when it happened, but the Purple Jesus developed a huge hate-on for the people of Calgary. There is nothing he does that’s not informed by this. He believes were are literally all too stupid to decide anything for ourselves, and so he must, for our own good.

    1. Very simple. The Purple Prince did not get his legacy olympics. How dare us peons to question his incredible intellect! He didn’t get his 30KMH speed limit either, for our own good of course. He is just itching to impose more restrictions to keep us all safe from dying from the flu, again for our own good. We should be so thankful that he alone is looking out for our well being.

  2. That coupled with the millions of muslims Blackie is bringing over, should provide great entertainment in Calgary.

  3. I am hopeful something will change next year but I am not confident. Incumbents have a massive advantage in these races, especially when you have 3 or 4 people running against each of them. Farkas is running for mayor but Magliocca is likely done, so you may only have one conservative vote on council (Chu). With the tall foreheads at UCP HQ already scheming to run someone against Farkas splitting the vote for Nenshi, there is a good chance that this council might look even worse after the 2021 election.
    If there are any UCP people reading this, please, please stay out of the Calgary mayoral election cause we can’t afford your interference. This is too important for your games and egos.

  4. With Nenshi, it is and always has been about him. From his days at Mount Royal College to his comfy seat as mayor of Calgary, it has been ever thus. Council did manage to kibosh his 3rd (!) pension. One glitch: if he decides not to run next year, his severance package is halved. If he runs and loses, he gets his full severance. Oh, and he gets to keep any unspent campaign funds for his personal gain. Tax free! What a joke!

    1. Nenshi conned a lot of people when he won the first time.
      He would have lost last go-around but the egos and personal vendettas of the big-brained conservative power brokers got in the way and instead of a great candidate we got Bill Smith – the only empty suit the various factions could agree on. And, of course, he lost cause the average voter could see the guy had no plan, no ideas, no values and was simply a conduit for a few rich families.
      As I posted above, all these behind-the-scenes schemers need to stay out of it this time around cause we can’t have a vote split between Farkas and UCP-approved placeholder.

  5. I’m of two minds about less police officers. Cops will arrest and jail you for doing something as simple as praying in front of an abortion clinic. They will (as seen in Britain) come after you for a “wrong-think” post on social media. They will literally break into your locked home, your secure firearms locker, and steal ALL your firearms while you’re evacuated because of some type of natural disaster (High River). They will also arrest you for defending your property from thieves (Gerald Stanley/Coulton Boushie-Sask). Cops have always shown that they will follow the orders (no matter how illogical/immoral/unconstitutional) from the entity that controls their pay and pension. We chastised the NAZI soldiers for using the excuse of “I was only following orders”…(I’m not equating cops to NAZIs)…but today’s cops 9.999/10 follow the orders given to them by their municipal/provincial/federal overlords. Having said that…less cops means that there may be less crime (because the “price” for the perp will be death) but a more violent society.

  6. “In other words, let’s see what giving $20 million to social agencies achieves before hitting up the cops. A modest proposal.”

    Nothing. Handing more money to”social agencies” only increases the number of trough hogs who have almost NO effect on the problems they are there to solve. This is what the activists want though, more civil servant jobs that they can apply for and sit on their fat paper-shuffling asses for 30 years before collecting a lovely pension.

  7. Going to remind one and all of this Alberta incident from May 4th this year:
    https://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosplay-is-now-life-threatening-pursuit.html

    TL/DR, Lethbridge cops did a full-tactical takedown of a teenage girl wearing a Star Wars storm trooper outfit, in front of a Star Wars cafe, with the owner of the cafe screaming the kid worked for him the whole time, on May the 4th. Because plastic toy blaster and one phone call from Karen.

    So, if the Calgary PD gets a -huge- budget cut I’m going to call that a good thing. They need a wakeup call and this is as good a time as any.

    On the downside, the Calgary city council is going to let crime skyrocket in town. They don’t have to, because it could be prevented by -proper- policing (as in you arrest people who are actually doing a crime instead of rousting kids in costumes) but they will. Because they are Leftists and they are stupid.

    Good time to sell that house in Calgary and move to… well that’s a problem isn’t it? Where you gonna go? Maybe y’all Albertans should stop voting NDPee? Just sayin’.

    1. Good time to sell that house in Calgary and move to… well that’s a problem isn’t it? Where you gonna go?

      Edmonton’s no better, which is one reason I’m seriously thinking of leaving the city once I’m done settling my father’s estate.

  8. Calgary’s Police budget in 2019 was $401M public operating budget plus $109M revenue = $510M.

    At $404 per resident the cost is huge and it strikes me as highly inefficient. It doesn’t get better if we look at it this way, $510M spent on 486,132 calls and traffic stops. $1,049 per call using police / public interaction as metric.

    The allocation of $20M in funding to mental health would be about a 5% reduction in spending for the police. A small dip in the bucket.
    If we are to pay for this kind of platinum service I 100% agree that we need improved training and resources to assist the police in mental health interactions.

    But, we’ve gone and wrapped it up in this whole vote-pandering BS. The weasel words being used around “other other social initiatives”, which means the money will be pissed away somewhere never to be seen again. Although, we did such a great job on the mayor’s initiative on homelessness–did you know that we’ve been a utopia now for 10 years (sarc)?

    The Police have a difficult, sometimes impossible, job, I don’t fault them. I fault our leadership’s responses and their naked politicizing of an essential social service.

    BTW I’m doing my part, my heavy foot means that my interactions are higher than average and my effort to contribute to the $100M in revenue should be rewarded.

      1. Just like in Edmonton. The “improvement” was clearly evident when the constabulary protected the Extinction Rebellion blockade of a major bridge here last year while motorists were forced to either wait or take detours in order to get to work.

        1. Dontcha know that it’s a crisis, a CLIMATE CRISIS.

          This weekend when we get 10cm of snow that’ll be a crisis, a crisis which also blocks bridges. We solve that one with repeated plowing.

          Maybe the plows should replace policing for every instance where the bridges get blocked due to a ‘crisis’. Of course I’m a bad person for suggesting that cities are for everyone, not just the young marxist followers of the Handlers-of-Greta.

          1. Snowplows? In Edmonton? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

            There’s a joke about them here. Snowplows are like the sasquatch. Everyone believes they exist, but nobody’s actually seen one.

    1. Farkas said he would rather be fired than knuckle under to Burn Loot Murder. CTV took that and says he quit. The letter from his office indicated that he was voted off the commission by city council.
      Crap TV Calgary, as usual, is full of sh*t.

  9. had a friend receive a jaywalking ticket in the view of crack transactions along the centre to 1st street west LRT route in calgary . why ? because they knew he would pay the fine , the crack dealers would just inconvenience the system . in and out in an hour

  10. There is a simple motion that should be brought forward to Calgary City Council. The motion would simply say that the funds will come from policing in those wards whose councillors vote to cut police funding. I mean, if they truly are representing their constituents (as opposed to a handful of wacked out Marxists) then their constituents should have no problem with a lower level of police service in their wards.

    1. The ward councillor does not represent the constituents. I went to the oxygen thief Gian-Carlo Carra with a concern. His office simply brushed me off. They said I could just call 311 and discuss it with the unaccountable department head.

      This also happened with previously assigned ward councillors as well.

  11. Just a thought.
    Has anyone errantly published the home address of the mayor?
    Cause I hear he wants to give things away for free, so the needy could consider prevailing on him, even if he’s not at home and avail themselves of his generosity.

  12. It will be interesting. From how it was explained to me…
    Social services are called first. In 99.999% of the cases, the social worker will claim, “Not my problem! Send the police.” They do this because it is usually late and they don’t know the suspect.
    This BS will give more money to the social workers who, unless it is convenient and they know the perp is harmless, will still insist that it’s not their problem and police have to attend.

  13. “Haha Calgary. Your gay mayor might be worse than our gay mayor.”
    Your annoying friend in Ottawa, Buddy.

    1. At least Nenshi isn’t trying to enter a Prinz Dummkopf lookalike contest like Donnie Bike Lane here in Edmonton. Actually, I think Iveson looks more like that hack actor Ben Affleck trying to impersonate HRH, or is it the other way around?

  14. I guarantee that in a few years time, Nenshi will produce a report showing a decrease in crime as the results of the measure and make further cuts to hire even more social workers, likely the “diverse” kind. The decrease in crime will actually be a decrease in arrests due to the lack of cops. Citizens will stop reporting things as nothing will happen anyway, and they soon realize that if you quit banging your head against the wall it stops hurting. Crime stats down, garbage success. The only serious action taken will be the police investigating and charging any citizen that dares try to defend themselves or their property, “Castle” statutes upheld by the Supreme Court cast aside. Our progressive lords and masters have made the decision that becoming a victim willingly is a requirement of citizenship. I don’t believe this is going to change anytime soon….actually never is closer to the truth.

  15. Basic Marxism, you let your wealthy cronies and the idle, criminal poor have the run or the place, but you let the middle class – the people who actually make society run – know that they won’t be able to fart without permission from the government.

  16. When the terminally stupid are finally hungry and cold enough they will kill those who created their misery. That is the strange thing about human nature, they finally figure out who screwed them. Muslims and liberal socialist/communists will really need to keep their heads down along with Trudeau voters.

  17. Very Old White Guy has it exactly right.Another small detail is the “Social Services” these organizations are scum.These are Vultures who feast on the pain and suffering of societies losers.
    They all enjoy very nice salaries and perks as they impose a systemic crushing to those they claim to help.
    Has anyone noticed,that since these Fully government funded”Non Government Organizations” started “helping the poor” we are now overrun with “The Poor”?

    Yet their solution to these problems they created..Is?
    More of their help.

    Almost as if they benefit from more dispossessed people..
    Oh right,they do.
    For they would not have these well paid jobs,without their clients.

    Just as government answer to crushing taxes and regulation,is to write more regulation and impose more taxes.

    Way I feel about my “helpers”,the civil service and all politicians..Death is too good for them.
    These fools,vandals,destroyers and bandits believe they are entitled to their pensions,as a reward for all the fine work they have done for me..
    But if I had a bookkeeper, business manager,well any employee who performed like they have done..I would be pressing criminal fraud charges against them in court,assuming I had any wealth left to do so.

    1. Best evisceration of “civil servants” yet. Applies to all departments of gov’t. How is it the gov’t can fuck up opening a can of beans? Well first you have to have a “Union” that says we have no bean can opener personnel. So hire a hundred. Then the bean can openers say we aren’t allowed to operate the can opener. So hire some consultants, put out some tenders, and commission a report on the proper method of utilizing a can opener. Now an Environmental Impact Study (Hire Hubby’s/Wife’s Spouse preferably not white). Back to the previous tenders and sub-contract the job to whatever firm donated the most even though they have never operated a can opener in their life. Doesn’t matter, they will destroy a hundred and forty-nine cans of beans and finally deliver a can with the side split open, say we ran over budget and took three months to do it but now the public can have their beans and we deserve a bonus to which the civil service will say “Well done” and we have a hundred canned corn-beef openers that need your help.

    2. I used to work for an NGO. A director’s position and we ran a tight ship and really helped people to become independent. I had to use my savings to work there as $15 per hour didn’t meet my expenses. Had to quit.

  18. Citizen apathy is always what puts these people into positions of power and sadly they know the formula all too well.
    Local politics is always an uphill battle for residents to make sure the chimps don’t get a chance to run the zoo. Calgary dropped the ball, so it is what it is. Maybe next time get off your ass and pay attention.
    That said – I’ve read some of the comments here regarding the police and I must say there isn’t too much I disagree with. Maybe start treating law abiding citizens as allies rather than “unconvicted residents” as someone here once pointed out and you may get a different response other than “Meh…” when you throw a pity party when they slash your budget.

    1. Stealing “unconvicted residents”, because they seem to view everyone as a perpetrator they just haven’t caught in the act yet.

  19. Wait, let me guess, so police will have to stop solving or preventing serious crimes altogether, let professional criminals go and focus 100% of their activities on meeting quotas for petty fines from the majority of the populace? What will change?

  20. As it appears, there must be oversupply of headshrinkers, at least in Alberta.
    There is a campaign by the media cartel, the schools, social warriors and other such useless people to screw the minds of the very young children so they have a steady supply of useless idiots.

    The position here is that every one person is equipped to handle life and most will do their damned best. Then you have those that other people say that they need help. From then on they are completely dependent on others.
    The headshrinkers say you should not give a pat on the bee-hind.
    Yeah there is your full time patient.
    Isn’t it interesting how some that went to school for a long time, never learned life skills, tell others how to live.

  21. The cops arrest the Crown releases, the only people paying fines are honest hard working middle classers for photo radar, parking, and permit issues. The real criminals have to pretty well kill somebody before anything is done.

  22. Calgary Cops are DIRTY SONS of Bitches who abuse their office for the least trifle. They need to be defunded.
    I speak from direct experience.

  23. We had 3 neighbours call the cops multiple timrs to complain/report activity at the crack house across the alley. Bumpkis.
    Then the wife calls to report a perv urinating within sight of our kids in the backyard.
    Boom, at least 3 cruisers show, the perp tries to run, takedown in alley.
    Crack hoise resident talks to cops, they release Willy-P.
    Thanks for nothing.
    Followup, the house owner passes, her daughters sell the place. Crack house gonzo.

  24. This is not police reform, however. It is pandering to a left wing base and and expansion of the mandarin class.

    From personal knowledge, the Calgary Police are badly in need of better leadership. They are inadequately trained and deploy illegal brutality with impunity. Now some of you are much like the left in this respect: you both want to expand the magic circle of legal immunity in Government agencies. I appreciate that worship of power, but find it morally repugnant.

    The Calgary’s police are double-faced, and they opened themselves up politically to this power grab by Nenshi and his bureaucrats.
    But they will not become better cops by simply being defunded.
    And cops don’t make suspects better people by being abetted in the exercise of sheer sadism.

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