Friday, March 15, 2024

Rising car theft in Toronto and the role of government

I was surprised to see these reports,

Toronto Police Gives Advice on Auto Theft: Just Let Thieves Steal Your Car
Paul Joseph Watson 14th March 2024
https://modernity.news/2024/03/14/toronto-police-gives-advice-on-auto-theft-just-let-thieves-steal-your-car/

Toronto Police have given advice to residents worried about the city’s spiraling auto theft problem – just let thieves steal your car by leaving them the keys.

Leave keys at the front door: Toronto police constable gives BIZARRE advice amid rising car theft
Toronto, Canada
Edited By: Heena SharmaUpdated: Mar 14, 2024
https://www.wionews.com/world/toronto-police-constable-gives-bizarre-advice-amid-rising-car-theft-700100

Toronto police advise locals to leave car keys near front doors to avoid confrontations with violent thieves
'Home invasions and break and enters for auto theft occurrences rose 400 percent in 2023,' police say
By Gabriel Hays Fox News March 15, 2024 
https://www.foxnews.com/media/toronto-police-advise-locals-leave-car-keys-front-doors-avoid-confrontation-violent-thieves

(this photo from https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/local-crime/)

So I asked four Filipino friends living in Toronto -- is this true? Their replies:

1. Oo, kainis Yan. (Yes, it's irritating)

2. Yup, it was announced by one of the toronto police member that to avoid being ransacked, just place car key/s near the main door para pag may magnakaw ng car sa drive way, makikita agad ang susi malapit sa main door.

3. I stopped watching news coz it's very depressing. Car theft, talamak. Ilang friends namin nanakawan ng car. May Mafia behind...they work inside the govt office.

4. This is not true, but it’s true that car theft is on the rise.

Then this is clear governmentt failure. The main purpose of government why it was invented, from a  classical liberal tradition, only 3 functions: protect the people's right to life, right to private property, right to liberty. A car is private property. If thieves can easily take other people's car, then government is not doing its mandate to protect the people's right to private property.

Trudeau and his team are busy protecting the properties of Ukraine, Palestinians?

Canada, US, etc. governments cannot control the invasion of criminals in the homes of their own citizens but are so concerned about Ukraine, Taiwan, N. Korea, etc. They cannot prioritize the protection of right to life, right to private property of their own citizens yet are so focused on right to life, property of other nationals thousands of kilometers away.

Same here. We are harassed by daily traffic, too many road intersections where  congestions occur. Govt can build more overpass, underpass, tunnels, avoid having intersections as much as possible so that vehicles can pass smoothly. But govt says it has no money to build more infra, rely on PPP. Then govt says it will have money to buy soon submarines, battleships, jetfighters, etc.

Meanwhile, I think the US, Canada, W. Europe will slowly implode socially and economically. Too many unvetted illegal immigrants and possibly with criminal or terror background from many countries are already there.

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