Privacy concerns quashes 'chronic offender' program

by Barry Artiste | June 28, 2008 at 06:44 am | 209 views | add comment

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
Certainly disturbing when the rights of Criminals are put first before their Victims, Criminals with over 100 convictions against them are not allowed to be publicly identified as the British Columbia Privacy Commission states it violates the criminals rights.

One would think the Victims and Public's rights would be a more paramount concern. Now we know why British Columbia earned the name as the Worlds Super Criminal Superpower. A name well deserved.

I am thinking, perhaps time to dismantle this Privacy Commissioner's office, fire the lot of them, and put a commission in place with looks out for our interests instead of the criminals.

VANCOUVER -- An aggressive police campaign designed to expose career criminals in Vancouver has been suspended after B.C.'s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner said it may violate provincial law.

"We don't want people to play fast and loose with the rules," the office's executive director, Mary Carlson, said in an interview Friday, suggesting the Vancouver Police Department may have violated provincial privacy laws when it launched its "Chronic Offender" publicity program last week.

Among other things, the VPD released photographs and brief criminal histories of three career criminals, each of whom has more than 125 convictions for theft, break an enter, assault and other crimes.