One of the great mayors of our time turned in a good speech yesterday in Winnipeg, of all places, in which he shared some of the ideas that he put to work in successfully cleaning up New York City. Many other American and Canadian cities quickly duplicated his ideas and enjoyed similar success. But I can tell you that having been to the city so nice they named it twice, I feel safer walking around there than I do in downtown Vancouver. (Hat tip: conservativegal)
While liberal columnists like the liberal Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson pen distressing columns claiming that the Harper Conservative government’s tougher sentencing laws—particularly zooming-in on mandatory sentencing—are “triumph of focus-group-driven politics over evidence-based policy”, he fails to admit that he’s neglecting to mention that the new sentencing guidelines are only part of a much bigger crime-fighting initiative.
He, like all liberals, tend to foretell with feigned indignation the inevitable and horrendous increases in jail population and its abominable cost (as if they’ve ever cared about the cost of any state-run program), and offer that up as proof of failure—in advance—of the effort to make our streets safer (the logical fallacies inherent in such reasoning notwithstanding).
Better crime-fighting isn’t limited to improvement in just one facet of it, such as minimum sentencing, as Simpson knows. Simpson failed to admit in his column that the Conservatives also just presented a budget with extra cash for the hiring of a THOUSAND new police officers, for example. And he also wisely left alone the liberal-left plan (which they’re still fighting for) to legalize pot smoking by our kids in our streets, and to legalize prostitution, and how such “progressive” ideas would help improve safety in our streets.
And as all liberals do, he fails to ever mention that most fundamental strategy, that being kids having an actual, real, married mom and dad at home with a sense of personal responsibility, raising our nation’s children by themselves as much as possible.
But as Mr. Giuliani indicated in his speech, there’s a lot of spokes in the crime-fighting wheel. When you micro-analyze one aspect alone as he did for you, you’re bound to come to a ridiculous conclusion, as he did, for you. Perhaps that was Simpson’s rather devious little plan, because I always knew him to be much smarter than that.
You only have to listen to or read about Mr. Giuliani’s proven ideas on crime-fighting to know that none of the liberal-thinking ideas of the past are the way to go in the future. Let’s have a read:
Reducing crime key to urban prosperity: Giuliani
Associated Press
WINNIPEG—Canadian cities with burgeoning crime rates need to change the way they look at policing to reverse the trend and restore growth and prosperity, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told a conference Thursday.
Reducing New York’s murder rate by 70 per cent during his two four-year terms wasn’t cheap, Giuliani admitted.
But the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to put more officers on the street, and redirect their efforts to start with street-level crime, saved the city money on incarceration, brought business and tax dollars back to the city and boosted tourism.
[…] Other methods Giuliani used to restore New York’s reputation are outside the jurisdiction of Canadian municipalities.
For example, his workfare initiative – which focused on finding able-bodied residents jobs before giving them welfare – cut the welfare rolls by 60 per cent.
I’m sure he said more.
Meanwhile, Canadians voting in the Toronto Sun’s poll this morning are on side with one aspect of the Harper Conservative plan—the tougher sentencing—liberals like Jeffrey Simpson and his micro-analysis notwithstanding.
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