Like this would be equivalent to paramedics dumping critically ill patients in a lake instead of bringing them to a hospital "to bring attention to long ER wait times"

Long wait times are a real problem! And yet your attempt to bring attention to the issue can still be a much bigger problem!

Inmates deserve humane treatment in prison. Bad prison conditions need to be addressed

But those conditions are downstream of decades of underinvestment in prison infrastructure that all three parties share blame for; and a CO hiring freeze under Wynne specifically

(CBSA may have denied him entry to Canada if he tried to cross the border due to his previous rape charges, but its inconsistent who they reject, and according to police there was no way to communicate to them that he was actively threatening to kill a Canadian citizen)

But once the registry is public, even being "removed" means that people can still find that you were on it (which is good and bad). And a detective was willing to show up to his house to loudly threaten that he could face new charges if he didn't stop (loud enough that his parents could hear)

Of course, even though he was from a supposedly "tough on crime" state, he had received only probation for his rape charges. And the probation was ended after less than 2 years for "good behaviour" and he was removed from the registry; that he was supposed to be on for 10 years :)

Canadian police wouldn't take it seriously when she tried to report (which even with pressure never got officially recorded!)

Thankfully US police actually did take it seriously that he was escalating, and the public offender registry meant the threat could be appropriately assessed

That being said, I unfortunately HAVE had to rely on the publicly available sex offenders registry of an American state, after someone who was on it (for rape) was cyberstalking and harassing a Canadian nurse, and threatening to cross the border to shoot her

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Ontario had a big expansion in nursing education + drastically reduced standards for internationally educated nurses to practice here. Then froze healthcare budgets leading to less positions

Entirely possible we see program cuts in the next few years in response to the bad job market for new nurses

The Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program and expanded training for healthcare providers have both been real wins

It's just a shame he paired that with disastrous lowering of standards for internationally trained providers, privatization, and starving of primary care and hospital budgets

"Move fast and break things" is generally not a good approach in healthcare; and the fact that the system was already in a bad state makes that approach harder to justify; not easier

This specific project is low risk though, so a failure won't hurt the overall system

I think this also means that once middle class people stop adjusting- their new habits become the norm- a lot of the public attention on crime will go away

Which is bad because crime is a real problem that ruins lives and we need to invest a lot more into addressing it!