Canada’s legal system is failing to keep violent repeat offenders in jail due to lax bail policies, say retired law enforcement officers who spoke to The Epoch Times, while some criminologists say that without solving the root causes of violence, stricter bail control may not be enough.
Calls for bail reform from some police chiefs and politicians have followed the recent murder of Ontario rookie police constable Grzegorz Pierzchala on Dec. 27, 2022. Pierzchala was allegedly shot by a 25-year-old suspect on bail for previous charges of assaulting a police officer and possessing an illegal handgun after a court-ordered weapons ban. Ontario Provincial Police Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala is shown in this undated handout photo. (The Canadian Press/HO, OPP) Former police officer Larry Comeau, who retired from the RCMP after 37 years of service, told The Epoch Times it’s “tragic” that it took the murder of a young officer to “shine a light on Canada’s revolving door justice system.” He says there are too many “social activist” judges that are not handing out “tough sentences that serve both as a deterrence and protect citizens.”…