THUNDER BAY....Crime....APRIL 29th, 2013...

 

THUNDER BAY....Crime....Thunder Bay Police faced off against a lot of calls over the weekend. Over the past seventy two hours, police responded to hundreds of calls. Topping the list were ‘Quality of Life’ calls. with liquor offense's representing the greatest number of calls for service. Police also responded to a flurry of weapons calls, assaults, sexual assaults, and other crimes.

In the downtown Fort William Business District, the streets demonstrate a need for more inspections. Beer bottles, broken glass, blood needles...and building vandalism all point to possible issues with over-serving of alcohol...ya think is what I ask myself...just park yourself outside of NEWFIE'S PUB at closing time...

Over the course of time, almost half of the calls that Thunder Bay Police respond to are alcohol related. Enormous amounts of effort and tax dollars are being expended to deal with the problems related to alcohol.

The number of liquor offense's, in many cases centered in the two downtown cores suggest there is a far greater need for more training and education from inspectors from the Ontario Alcohol and Gaming Commission. Police are doing what they can, but added support is needed to make the cores in both the north and south sides of Thunder Bay safer.

In the latest report from the AGCO there are no suspensions reported for all of Northwestern Ontario it is either very positive that all the licensed establishments in Northern Ontario are following all the rules, or that there are not enough inspections happening in the North.