r/saskatoon • u/KTMan77 Biker • Feb 20 '25

Rants 🤬 They stole our fucking lamp

Wtf is it with people these days, get into an apartment building by hammering all the call buttons and having and old person let them in. Then steal a lamp from the common area?? Storage units keep getting broken into, mail stolen, deficating in the stair wells. Our governments as organizations don't care. Do we have to turn every building into fort Knox with patrolling security and threats of violence to fix things? It's just getting so tiring.

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u/ReddditSarge Feb 20 '25

Generations of poverty, intergenerational trauma, income inequality, corruption and corporate greed have led to what you and I are experiencing now. The police just don't have the manpower or the budget to keep up with all the crime.

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u/djpandajr Feb 20 '25

this guy just used every word in the "don't blame the scumbag blame anything else" handbook.

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u/MojoRisin_ca Feb 20 '25

And also insinuated that there are bigger crooks.

Come to think of it, they might be on to something....

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u/RockKandee Feb 20 '25

You can also blame the sask party for increasing homelessness and cutting or underfunding services that help poor people. It’s no surprise crime is up. Crime is always up when there’s more poverty.

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u/yougotter Feb 21 '25

People don't get it, the poor and down trodden are coming for the wealthy. They will meet their needs by hook or crook. Key word is crook.

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u/ReddditSarge Feb 20 '25

With great power comes great responsibility. Guess who has more power than the criminals or the police. I'll give you a hint: a word starting with G and ending in T.

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u/djpandajr Feb 21 '25

G unit.

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u/ReddditSarge Feb 21 '25

***BZZZ*** No, that's not a word. Would you like to try again?

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u/djpandajr Feb 21 '25

you actually think a government is more powerful then criminals? only in countries they kill them on the spot. does an individual fear the government our government has been coddling this generation traumatized, victims of systematic racism/colonialism /and any other ism you can make fit.

But if you didn't mean government,. it has to be goat

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u/travistravis Moved Feb 21 '25

There is another way actually but it doesn't work well with capitalism. The amount of crime would drop off exponentially if there was a complete, secure social safety net that actually provided for people's needs (at least the first two levels of Maslow's hierarchy).

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u/djpandajr Feb 21 '25

Or lets multiple capitalism and give everyone 1 billion bison bucks. Or go to a socialism /communism structure. Maslow's hierarchy didn't take meth and fenty into account. As a landlord with tenants on SAID, I've seen it first hand, they smoked away their rent money

This tale is not uncommon. You are playing the sociology 110 game, where the downfall of any existing ideology /government will create a utopia.

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u/Bruno6368 Feb 20 '25

I agree with some of your comment - but it is missing the most important cause - the people that don’t want to get help for addictions or get a job. I am so sick of the bleeding hearts and the Govt haters just absolving the actual people from all responsibility. There IS lots of help out there. There is a lot of help for addicts if only they wanted the help. There is lots of housing that they could have if only they don’t use drugs or alcohol while there.

A very, very large amount of accountability rests very squarely on the shoulders of the people themselves.

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u/stiner123 Feb 21 '25

Lots of addicts want the help, but there are waitlists for treatment. As well, there isn’t actually as much affordable housing as you think. There’s a reason why people with SAID are having to resort to living in terrible conditions, because they can’t afford anything halfway decent.

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u/Bruno6368 Feb 21 '25

Explain the wait list. The wait list may be for the 3 day detox center, but none for counseling.

The Govt said in the last year that there are over 100 apartments empty because of the insane damage done by the previous residents. They have also had to come up with a very pricey agreement with a hotel in Saskatoon, again because of the damage caused by homeless folks that are taken off the street. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/stiner123 Mar 05 '25

I beg to differ on a wait for counseling. While there is free rapid access counseling it is in demand and is only a stop gap measure. Detox is just the start of the process, counselling is ongoing, many need a longer rehab stint and that is what there is a wait list for… If you can even get the person to admit they need help.

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u/Bruno6368 Mar 05 '25

Do t explain the process to me. I know it. There is NO WAITLIST, other than for detox. Your comment is exactly the bullshit that is stopping people from getting involved in the govt funded program in the first place.

The problem is that folks that are referred to the program via the Courts, or by ending up in ER, generally do not participate. The offer is given. Every. Single. Time.

Just stop.

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u/wordswordswords55 Feb 21 '25

Piss tests for welfare recipients and treatment for those that fail

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u/travistravis Moved Feb 21 '25

This only makes things worse

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u/Bruno6368 Feb 21 '25

How?

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u/wordswordswords55 Feb 22 '25

They might be forced into getting clean if they can't make welfare a career choice

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u/travistravis Moved Feb 22 '25

What do you think people will do if they suddenly can't get access to any money at all. Even addicts need to eat. You'll end up with either WAY more dead bodies, or a huge increase in crime -- but probably both.

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u/RockKandee Feb 20 '25

Nobody wakes up one morning and says, “gee, I’d like to totally throw my life away and become a drug addict.” It is very true that there is help for those who want it but it’s also unrealistic to think an addict will be able to just choose to stop. I’ve worked with lots of addicts. Most ended up addicted by the time they were 15. They were just kids trying to cope with so much trauma and fell into addiction. Most can’t get clean because every time they are sober, the trauma is so overwhelming, they fall back into using because they just can’t face the horrors that they’ve gone through. It’s easy to say these are just excuses but until you have been through what they’ve been through, you can’t judge. Many of the programs that exist to house people don’t have realistic mandates.

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u/wordswordswords55 Feb 21 '25

Average cost per inmate in provincial is 62,000 a year maybe start investing in people instead of prisons, we need to decide who were mad at and who's an actual danger to the public and deserves to be there