Given our justice system they won't be in jail long enough for the digital ink to dry before they're released and right back to the streets where they'll recommence what they do best which definitely isn't making Canada's Funniest Video's for our entertainment.
And as for car theft being a "victim less" crime allow me to point out that we all become victims to these car thieves in the form of higher insurance rates and increased policing costs even if our vehicle wasn't the one stolen.
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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says more than 56,000 vehicles were broken into last year, noting the issue of arrest and release of chronic offenders.
“What we’re trying to do is to ensure in our court system that we’ve got resources there so that we don’t see, for example, issues where people are walking free because there’s a lack of sheriffs or that there’s not the number of judges that there should be,” Farnworth said.
Last year, stolen auto claims cost ICBC $50 million, and $18 million in break-in claims.
The most common items that get stolen from vehicles are smartphones, tablets, laptops, GPS devices.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4113914/b-c- ... -revealed/It's time the courts quit treating these prolific offenders as victims of society and started putting them in a place that'll prevent them from continuing their own personal crime waves at our expense.