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Tag Archives: police
B.C.’s money laundering fuelled by offshore and drug money, inquiry hears – The Globe and Mail
Peter German, former deputy commissioner of the RCMP, speaks at a news conference on money laundering in Vancouver in 2018. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS MIKE HAGER – VANCOUVER MAY 25, 2020 Some of the billions of dollars that have been … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Financial, justice, News and politics
Tagged bc, Canada, capital flight, casinos, China, corruption, Dirty, gangs, inquiry, judges, luxury, money laundering, organized crime, police, politicians, property, prosecutors, Vancouver, vehicles
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
Zachary McCoy used an exercise-tracking app, RunKeeper, to record his rides.. image: Agnes Lopez / for NBC News Big data when used without limits or oversight often results in privacy breaches and wrongful assumptions. Police can now get personal details … Continue reading
Posted in Charter and Constitutional Rights, Computers and Internet, constitution, justice, law, News and politics, Privacy
Tagged burglary, court order, data, data providers, Google, illegal, injunction, location, police, predictive policing, Privacy, search, suspect, suspicion, third party, wrongful
Cash for needle returns? Homeless Winnipegger says incentives, help from city could clean up camps
© Provided by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Raymond Dunn lives in a tent in a neatly kept area behind Balmoral Hall, a private girls’ school a short walk from a homeless encampment along the Assiniboine River. Raymond Dunn lives in a … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, healthcare, manitoba, News and politics, winnipeg
Tagged drug use, exchange, free needles, homelessness, manitoba, meth, police, public safety, shelters, temporary, whra, winnipeg
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Tech giants and others are Reading License Plates
Google And Facebook Are Reading Your License Plates https://jalopnik.com/google-is-reading-your-license-plates-1839259494 Some police, public or third party for profit traffic or parking photo enforcement partners, public auto insurance providers and others are also using OCR and automatic license plate readers (ALPR’s). In … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Computers and Internet, insurance, international, manitoba, News and politics, social media, winnipeg
Tagged alpr, automatic license plate readers, Europe, Facebook, fingerprint, Google, insurance, Manitoba canada, mpi, photos, police, public, socialmedia, tags sigital, United States, US, winnipeg
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Large homeless camps pop up under bridges and in parks, spark safety concerns in Winnipeg | CTV News
CTV News https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/under-bridges-and-in-parks-what-s-inside-winnipeg-s-large-homeless-camps-1.4608967 Comments What was being done previously to reduce homelessness, serious crime and reign in soring policing costs was failing. All agreed somethings needed to change. The City, Province and community groups came up with some ideas. One … Continue reading
Posted in Canada
Tagged community groups, homelessness, police, poverty, serious crime, shelters, temporary, winnipeg
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Police in China are wearing high-tech sunglasses to match faces in the crowd to criminal suspects | National Post
AFP/Getty Images The Telegraph Neil Connor February 8, 2018 11:20 AM EST Filed under: News World https://nationalpost.com/news/world/police-in-china-are-wearing-high-tech-sunglasses-to-match-faces-in-the-crowd-to-criminal-suspects
Policies restricting drug use are fueling the drug crisis, says Dr. Carl Hart – CBC Ideas
Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart believes attitudes and laws around drug use need to change, particularly in his own country, the United States. (Harper Collins) Hart argues risks associated with drug use have been overstated for healthy adults June 6 2019 – … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Human Rights and Freedoms, law, News and politics
Tagged addiction, adults, cannabis, drug use, fentanyl, grownups, injustice, laws, meth, methamphetamine, opioids, police, responsible, safe injection, testing, unjust
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Dirty money driving up B.C. home prices as more than $40-billion laundered across Canada in 2018 – Globe and Mail
May 10 2019 Commentary This linked to illegal importing and sale of opioids and other drugs with over 11k Canadians dying of opioid related overdoses since 2016. How was it allowed to get this bad? It says $7 of the … Continue reading
Posted in justice, News and politics
Tagged Alberta Ontario, bc, Canada, crime, drugs, money laundering, opiods, police, Prairies, rcmp, Vancouver
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Canadian Memorial Grant Program for First Responders
April 11 2018 Modified 2018-12-20 – Public Safety Canada Summary plus opinion commentary — When firefighters, police officers and paramedics put their safety on the line, they are acting in service to all Canadians. In recognition of the critical role … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics
Tagged ambulance, Canadian, EMS, first responders, grant, memorial, paramedics, police
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MPI diverting overcharges to police again instead of refunding or reducing rates as per legislated monopoly – also being labeled as socialism
MPI Funding Increased Enforcement Against Distracted Driving — April 4, 2019 – CHRISD.CA plus commentary Post on Facebook Some of Comments: “Socialism at it’s best. Governments take money from the people, the more money they control, the worse it is. … Continue reading
Posted in Automobiles, insurance, News and politics
Tagged autopac, bloated, bureaucracy, diverting, ethics, fiscal mismanagement, manitoba, misleading corruption, monopoly, mpi, mpic, overcharges, police, public insurance, rcmp, responsibility, winnipeg, WPS
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