Property Management Aspirations
Well, that's great news. Crime in Canada, according to new data from Statistics Canada, is steadily dropping. Homicide rates have gone down, as have robberies. A substantial decrease in both areas. Alas, break-ins represent the most serious category of property crimes committed in the country, also the most common, accounting for 15% of all property crimes. They too, however, appear to be decreasing.
Not an awful lot of consolation to those who have suffered break-ins. Particularly in light of what appears to be a growing trend. Disaffected, anti-social youth not only conspire to break into properties to avail themselves of other peoples' hard-earned trophies, but also to express their contempt for those unknown individuals whose inner sanctorums they are invading.
They do this by leaving behind in their wake, quite unmistakable symptoms of their aggrievement with life, with society and with the unknown people who inhabit the homes they have trashed. Imagine returning to your home to discover the signs of illegal entry, and then realizing that valued items are now gone, your privacy invaded, and your sense of security damaged beyond repair.
Go a little further and try to imagine what people returning to their homes discovered through a spate of break-ins in the Ottawa area: everything within brushed with paint, holes punched in the television screen, your computer monitor smashed, ditto pictures on the wall, and the walls themselves dented. Keepsake jewellery, clothing? Taken or trashed along with Xbox video games.
Your fearful, cowering little dog? Covered with paint. Your pet gecko? Fried in the microwave. Kitchen cupboards and bedrooms ransacked, items tossed everywhere. Flat-screen TV, DVD player, stereo system, BlackBerry, all gone. An LCD flatscreen TV taken away while the resident slept. Not merely your trust in security destroyed but your total peace of mind. All of these intrusions in broad daylight.
What kind of sociopath would enter someone's house and view it as an opportunity to be so boldly assertive in their despicable attitudes that they haul along with them gallons of paint for the specific purpose of dumping it everywhere? And then for good measure, leaving human feces as a final comment on the state of their mental disability.
One of the victims, in fact, a counselor who works with the developmentally-disabled. Who likely might never have imagined the prospect of her privacy, her possessions ever being trashed to the extent of complete destruction at the hands of the intelligence-disabled. As it transpired, in this particular instance where seven houses were broken into, police lifted incriminating fingerprints.
And they now have in custody two teens. A 17 and a 16-year old, whose identities are protected through the Youth Protection Act. Youth whose incendiary contempt and hatred for society so deeply entrenched that they have already amassed a criminal record. Whose parents have thrown in the towel, attempting to promote curfews and assert control with whom their boys consorted.
Crimes of robbery and assault. Fingerprints matched to an empty beer bottle, a sliding window. On three separate probation orders at the time of arrest for the latest spree. Charged with five counts of break, enter and theft, one of killing an animal, two counts of failing to comply with a youth sentence.
"What kind of a world do we live in?" asked one of the victims.
Not an awful lot of consolation to those who have suffered break-ins. Particularly in light of what appears to be a growing trend. Disaffected, anti-social youth not only conspire to break into properties to avail themselves of other peoples' hard-earned trophies, but also to express their contempt for those unknown individuals whose inner sanctorums they are invading.
They do this by leaving behind in their wake, quite unmistakable symptoms of their aggrievement with life, with society and with the unknown people who inhabit the homes they have trashed. Imagine returning to your home to discover the signs of illegal entry, and then realizing that valued items are now gone, your privacy invaded, and your sense of security damaged beyond repair.
Go a little further and try to imagine what people returning to their homes discovered through a spate of break-ins in the Ottawa area: everything within brushed with paint, holes punched in the television screen, your computer monitor smashed, ditto pictures on the wall, and the walls themselves dented. Keepsake jewellery, clothing? Taken or trashed along with Xbox video games.
Your fearful, cowering little dog? Covered with paint. Your pet gecko? Fried in the microwave. Kitchen cupboards and bedrooms ransacked, items tossed everywhere. Flat-screen TV, DVD player, stereo system, BlackBerry, all gone. An LCD flatscreen TV taken away while the resident slept. Not merely your trust in security destroyed but your total peace of mind. All of these intrusions in broad daylight.
What kind of sociopath would enter someone's house and view it as an opportunity to be so boldly assertive in their despicable attitudes that they haul along with them gallons of paint for the specific purpose of dumping it everywhere? And then for good measure, leaving human feces as a final comment on the state of their mental disability.
One of the victims, in fact, a counselor who works with the developmentally-disabled. Who likely might never have imagined the prospect of her privacy, her possessions ever being trashed to the extent of complete destruction at the hands of the intelligence-disabled. As it transpired, in this particular instance where seven houses were broken into, police lifted incriminating fingerprints.
And they now have in custody two teens. A 17 and a 16-year old, whose identities are protected through the Youth Protection Act. Youth whose incendiary contempt and hatred for society so deeply entrenched that they have already amassed a criminal record. Whose parents have thrown in the towel, attempting to promote curfews and assert control with whom their boys consorted.
Crimes of robbery and assault. Fingerprints matched to an empty beer bottle, a sliding window. On three separate probation orders at the time of arrest for the latest spree. Charged with five counts of break, enter and theft, one of killing an animal, two counts of failing to comply with a youth sentence.
"What kind of a world do we live in?" asked one of the victims.
Labels: Canada, Social-Cultural Deviations, societal failures
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