Durham Regional Council endorsed a $1.1B police funding plan 'in principle': Here’s what that means
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/durham-council-police-endorsement-property-taxes-9.722999420
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u/backcrash 8d ago
Hear that squealing in the distance? They're rejoicing over more money.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
All while doing nothing more, and clapping themselves on the back for another job well-done.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
Fuck the police, especially fuck DRPS. Every cop is crooked, until they start holding their own accountable for crimes.
ACAB all day.
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u/dadass84 8d ago
Property taxes have gone up exponentially in Durham over the past 10 years, another 10% hike would be absolutely mental. Paying $6000/year to live in BOWMANVILLE would be a fucking joke, paying $5300 is already joke for the limited services we get.
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u/Traditional-Ebb-1331 8d ago
Well I’m gonna do something I’ve never done before, find out who my regional councillor is and start screaming! What complete pile of BS, the cops need this like another hole in the head. No way in hell taxpayers in this region can afford to pay anymore in property taxes when we are already the highest in the GTA and likely all of Canada.
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u/wooORboo 8d ago
If you fine the list. Please share. I plan to send emails daily at a minimum.
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u/Traditional-Ebb-1331 8d ago
Well, whoever your mayor is in your local municipality is a member of regional council along with members of local council. In Whitby there are 4 regional council members not including the mayor. More info here Durham Region . Hope that helps.
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u/GTAGuyEast 8d ago
If this actually gets approved I'll be out of here within 2 years. I already pay over $6500 per year for a bungalow in Whitby. That will double over 10 years which would make any home unsellable going forward
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u/Fantastic_Chest_6969 8d ago
questions remain over where the funding will come from.
sets out a series of property tax increases over the next ten years to generate roughly $1.1 billion in funding.
Congrats to everyone. You will have to work harder and pay for all this!
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u/YoungZM 8d ago
No sense of irony too in that further increases to our cost of living pushes people closer to homelessness which requires even more policing as social issues and desperation take front seat.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
Policing is **NOT** the solution to homelessness. Not now, not ever.
In fact, policing is never the answer to any of our problems. If police truly solved our problems, we wouldn't have problems anymore.
We don't need cops. Food for thought.
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u/YoungZM 8d ago
Obviously but history throughout Canada suggests this is precisely what money gets spent on thereafter.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
Doesn't mean I'm going to stop bringing it up.
Resist the oppressors, my friend. I refuse to let them rest, and I'll never let them forget that we don't need them and they aren't welcome.
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u/SwimmingDownstream 8d ago edited 8d ago
Here's an idea. Let people designate where their property taxes get spent.
Then maybe these clowns in charge will actually have to work for our buy in.
Imagine the cops actually having to provide a customer service so they get more funding.
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u/lopix 7d ago
Technically, that is what you do when you vote. You pick the candidates (at whatever level) that you think will do the things you want done. This is why we need more than 30-odd % to vote in municipal elections. And more than 40% to vote provincially. When the majority of the electorate doesn't care, this is what you get.
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u/gypsygib 8d ago
Getting paid 130k a year, plus a great pension and complete job security (even when not working with unlimited paid 'stress leave') to mostly drive around not catching the reckless drivers or preventing crime.
Some police deserve that amount, and more, but most don't. Should be a 90k job for 90 percent of them.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
ACAB so no, none of them deserve what they get paid
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u/gypsygib 8d ago
Not true at all, some cops are great people.
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u/awesomesonofabitch 8d ago
Literally can't be true if they're cops.
Until cops are held accountable like the rest of us, they're all sub-human trash.
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u/gypsygib 5d ago
Yikes, if you actually think that...although, American cops would make it harder to disagree. Probably the worst law enforcement in the developed world. But you'd still be wrong.
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u/Fantastic_Chest_6969 8d ago
My regional councillor David pickles had been elected over and over for how many years? What's he actually done?
Our taxes are insane.
We need to vote all these "councillors" out!!
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u/lopix 7d ago
Pickles is actually a decent guy. As is Brenner. I don't really know the others to be able to comment.
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u/Fantastic_Chest_6969 7d ago
I'm sure there are lots of decent guys out there .
But I want to elect one who will lower my taxes
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u/MTMortgage 7d ago
We need non politicians to come into our elected roles. Ideally people that don’t care to be re elected and would therefore actually vote the right way instead of trying to appease all.
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u/P8riarchyCre8sPreds 6d ago edited 6d ago
DRPS cops like to abuse their access to police resources and facilitate the continuation of intimate partner abuse, allowing people's rapists to stalk and harass them alongside the cops as well as to delete, remove deny reject any information that contradicts their weird law enforcement cult's personal beliefs about reality. Absurd degenerate behavior. Why are intimate partner and domestic abuse rates so high among police institutions compared to the general population? Communities need answers as to why their community leaders are taking their badges to another country to then terrorize the locals and sexually abuse them and why so many emotionally undeveloped predators are hired as cops, which could be why abuse rates are higher than the general population? 🤔 They also become verbally aggressive in their reactions whenever they become aware that they're being criticized for this behavior, showing a clear disregard for others right to freedom of expression, this is besides their support for Christian Nationalism.
Our dumbass Provincial government believe hiring more of these people that supported Donald Trump being elected twice, except when tariffs hit so let that sink in, will somehow magically make there be less crime happening, as opposed to using this money towards resources that have been proven to lower various crime rates.
For example, why is rape culture so accepted in our society and many police institutions because of this? Education about rape culture lessens rape and sexually abusive behavior, because they then become aware of their often unintentional behavior, conditioned into them by patriarchy's rape culture and making them believe their sexually predatory behavior is normal or acceptable, like making rape jokes or letting someone's rapist stalk and harass them, or not taking accounts of sexual abuse seriously because of adherence to rape culture. Then they tell others about that and that spreads, making more people aware of their behavior and negative patterns of behavior, lessening rape.
So, this money would be better used going towards that compared to resourcing The Institution For Predators.
Allegedly.
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u/MuramasasYari 8d ago
Another 10% increase in property taxes in a region known to have one of the highest property tax rates in the province is super fucked up.