03-05-2019, 07:43 PM
(03-05-2019, 05:49 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: […]
It feels like the "regular" qualifier there is a pejorative against by-law officers, and I want to clarify that is because of my poor writing. By-law officers serve an important purpose, but it's different than a police officer and transferring powers between the roles is something that should be done with thoughtful consideration and intent, not because we don't like students behaving in certain ways.
Thanks very much. This actually makes a lot of sense to me. What it suggests, at least to me, is that any enforcement where identification is required should be done by police officers. I don’t believe in ineffective enforcement — that just means that regular people get enforced, and the real scofflaws get away scot-free. I understand there are people who regularly ride the TTC for free and it’s pretty much gotten to the point where they’re just tolerated. At some point I think a tipping point has to be reached where everybody else decides they’re done subsidizing the rides of thieves.
I think this means that bylaw should be restricted to property standards and parking — areas where an inanimate object (currently inanimate, in the case of parking) is the target of the enforcement action. They might also be OK to triage things like noise violations.
This is an area where I think multiple desireable goals conflict, so there is a lot of scope for meaningful discussion and I’m not even sure myself what I really think.