Tories ignore taxpayer-funded crime research

[HeresyLives]

March 14, 2010


Tories ignore taxpayer-funded crime research

By BRUCE CHEADLE, The Canadian Press


OTTAWA — The federal Justice Department pays to help publicize leading criminal justice research that frequently discredits the Conservative government’s “tough-on-crime” agenda.

And while the goal of the government-funded project is to “focus . . . on research that is policy relevant,” and provide a “general education” to those interested in criminal justice policy, the Harper government doesn’t appear to be listening.

The most recent issue of “Criminological Highlights” published last month by the University of Toronto’s Centre of Criminology, with federal assistance, blows gaping holes in several of Justice Minister Rob Nicholson’s most cherished anti-crime measures.



http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/03/14/13226061-cp.html

[daleo]

1. They have ignored the evidence

On coke snorting, drunk driving ex Conservative MPs. That's for sure.

[HeresyLives]

2. Oh well that's different.

That's tout en famille ya know.