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NefCanuck,Oct 25 2005, 11:34 AM Wrote:I dunno, am I more concerned than I was say ten years ago?  Honestly I would have to say yes, but that has more to do with the fact that rather than dealing with problems, society seems content to let things slide under the radar until something disasterous happens and then "It's the end of the world as we know it"

Perfect example of this:  The TTC was in the midst of slowly adding video monitoring devices for their bus drivers, ostensibly to enhance driver and passenger safety, it was being done, but not with any great haste...

Until that unfortunate TTC driver gets shot in the head and THEN it becomes "Crisis! Crisis! We have a Crisis!"

This "React only when the feces hits the fan" mentality has to stop.  We as a society have to become proactive rather than reactive otherwise we'll always be a step behind and someone will suffer because of it.

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Actually my best friend Bruce works that very route that the driver was shot in the face. Infact he was the one who was the first on scene to give aid to the driver as he was the next bus behind that one. I have talked to him a few times now and he can't seem to get the image of the driver out of his head of him bleading. he's on leave for P.T.S. and he's still in shock about it almost what 2 weeks later.

I'm not saying there is violence going on, but reality is it's more hype in the media then anything else, on global it's like Where next? how many more etc...... I don't doubt bad things happen to some good people like that woman who was shot last year and ended up a cripple as she was paying for a sub.

But if you really think about it, how violent are the car jackings in manatobia and sask getting ? not to mention the rise in gang activitys there. Really though Toronto has a much smaller crime rate compairing them to very urbanized areas such as Los Angeles, and NYC, but since it's now coming more public it's like everyone is in a panic about it because it's Canada, really what do you expect, we have the US next to us which makes it easy for guns to traffic their way over.