Police board to invite rights commissioner to hear impact of cancelling school liaison officer program
Police board to invite rights commissioner to hear impact of cancelling school liaison officer program
The board plans to invite commissioner Kasari Govender to an open board meeting to hear a presentation from VicPD and the mobile youth service team
Personally, it seems stupid not to have a liaison in high schools. This is where teens establish "bad" patterns, and every single one they manage to save early is one less problem for decades in the future.
If an officer is present, the highschool student is more likely to be charged for offenses that happen at school, which means they are more likely to get a criminal record, which means they will have a harder time finding employment, which can ruin lives.
An idiot giving/selling drugs to their friends becomes a life-long criminal or homeless.
Youth records get sealed unless you do something really bad. It definitely gets sealed for simply dealing drugs.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/yj-jj/tools-outils/sheets-feuillets/pdf/recor-dossi.pdf
It depends.
Dealing drugs in a school counts as an aggravating factor. Add a knife in the backpack, and you've got another aggravating factor.
You start seeing mandatory minimums of 2 years, which is fed time. That doesn't get removed from your records until at least 5 years after your sentence is over, so at least 7 years. This gets extended if you commit other crimes, which you might, if you can't get a job. That's into "ruining lives" territory, and we're created a lifer.
https://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/pub/fpsd-sfpg/fps-sfp/tpd/p6/ch02.html
Edit: I don't do drugs, but some people were cooler than I was in high school.