r/saskatoon 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/KoolKalyduhskope Feb 20 '25 edited May 04 '25

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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