SAFETY

Editor:

Home invasions a most awful trend now sweeping across Canada. Most home
invasions are for the ripping off of pot growers but other criminals now
see it as a way to get cash and other goods. Two elderly women recently got
invaded, this is a rash that is spreading and needs our judges to curb its
growth now not later.

Severe punishments are needed because of the traumatic experience people
suffer as victims of this crime. Judges you have to start making sentences
based on the value of the community rather than the out dated law books,
society is changing laws and sentencing must reflect this value.

Crimes against persons need stiffer penalties, like drunk drivers getting
two years or longer for causing death. If you ask the victims family if six
months the norm for causing death while impaired driving is enough they
would all say "no." More in sentencing is needed to reflect the anger of
the victims and their families. Of course with the morons in Victoria
cutting funding to prisons and courts and the very things needed to make
communities safer, our hands are tied, but you do have the opportunity to
unite and all sign a petition condemning the actions of the government for
putting public safety on the back burner.

Mike Orr

Riske Creek