\u201cHey councillor, there\u2019s too many cops!\u00a0 Just witnessed two officers arrest a young man already on his knees while six more officers came running in to the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) is a reactive service often required to deal with violent situations.\u00a0 WPS and its chief recognize it cannot solve the crime by themselves.\u00a0 Proactive prevention services need just as much effort.\u00a0 My view is the WPS cannot inheirently deliver direct prevention services requiring the City to examine other means of crime prevention to aleviate stress on the WPS resources.<\/p>\n
Prevention requires the participation of all levels of government, social service entities and local people.\u00a0 This update will be spread out over two Mynarski Ward updates.\u00a0 First I will address police related efforts, and then, the next update will focus on Community Services.<\/p>\n
The quickly rising, $175.798 million property tax supported police response budget makes it difficult for the City of Winnipeg to fund prevention services in our neighbourhoods.\u00a0 The WPS spends $3.301 million on direct crime prevention programs.\u00a0 The community policing budget is $20.224 million \u2013 not prevention.\u00a0 However, community policing is partially about working with organizations in our neighbourhoods.\u00a0 Both these property tax supported budgets are in addition to the response budget.<\/p>\n
A pilot program aimed at prevention called North Star\u201d at RB Russell high school was started by the Province of Manitoba and Winnipeg School Division.\u00a0 Details go beyond this update, but you need to know the WPS is directly involved along with Child and Family Services, social service providers, and families.\u00a0 Education is prevention, and I strongly agree attempts must be made to keep youth in school.<\/p>\n
Arson has been a big problem in the Mynarski Ward.\u00a0 The Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Service (WFPS) budgets $996 thousand on education programs which include the Fire Stop Program\u201d.\u00a0 The WPS community policing officers can work with the WFPS to get into schools to do arson prevention work beyond dealing with individuals refered to Youth Fire Stop.<\/p>\n
During my day to day work in the Mynarski Ward, some of the following organizations I work with have community policing officers in attendance providing support:<\/p>\n
North Point Douglas Women\u2019s Centre safety strategy meetings<\/p>\n
Indian Metis Friendship Centre annual WPS feast<\/p>\n
North End Cummunity Renewal Centre AGM and North End renewal strategy<\/p>\n
William Whyte Resident\u2019s Association arson and other neighbourhood consultations<\/p>\n
The WPS bring women to shelters due to domestic violence. The justice system makes people involved in crime attend addiction centres right in the Mynarski Ward.\u00a0 Both types of facilities have prevention components.<\/p>\n
There are many other organizations doing prevention work in the Mynarski Ward and across the city.\u00a0 Many do not receive direct City of Winnipeg support.\u00a0 In the next update, I will examine the Community Services related budget of $42.242 million.\u00a0 Much of what Community Services spends is generally for everyone\u2019s recreation and leisure activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHey councillor, there\u2019s too many cops!\u00a0 Just witnessed two officers arrest a young man already on his knees while six more officers came running in to the situation.\u201d The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) is a reactive service often required to deal with violent situations.\u00a0 WPS and its chief recognize it cannot solve the crime by themselves.\u00a0 Proactive prevention services need …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseadie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}