The assistant deputy attorney general responsible for the prosecution service issued an unusual statement disputing the “catch and release” phrase and saying it’s not the province that set the strong presumption in favour of pretrial release
A few weeks before the independent report on prolific offenders and random stranger attacks gripped the legislature’s attention, there was another contribution on the topic.
He said public confidence can be undermined by uninformed or inaccurate public statements. He disputed the “catch and release” phrase commonly used to describe how prolific offenders are dealt with and said the overall crime rate “is as low as it has been for years.”Assistant deputy ministers are normally loath to dive into highly partisan political arguments, but Juk was not shy about joining the fray.
That’s a direct shot at the Opposition Liberals, who use it routinely, as do some of the B.C. mayors who have been flagging the crisis. Subsequent events brought Juk’s statement into sharper focus. The independent report by consultants Doug LePard and Amanda Butler that was quietly released last Saturday has a markedly different tone.
“We heard repeatedly from police agencies throughout B.C. that there are insufficient resources in the prosecution service and that their local Crown Counsel have explicitly stated as much.” It’s hard to square their views on the prosecution service and the crime issue in general with Juk’s assurance that “the system is not broken.”
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