The Editor,
Re. “Why are B.C. cops so far behind in fighting opioid war?” (Opinion, The Tri-City News, Dec. 1).
In his column last week, Dermod Travis tried to blame the lack of a police response to the opioid crisis on the lack of funding to the justice system.
Most bureaucrats’ solution to any problem is to make the bureaucracy larger and put more money into it. While this may partly resolve the problem, we also need some imaginative leaders who can make the justice system much more efficient and bring it into the 21st century.
They must find ways to bring an arrested individual to trial in less than three to five years. The current system is filled with people who try to delay, delay, delay and it has many judges afraid to give a serious sentence for a serious crime. This would make the justice system much more effective than just throwing more money at it.
Bill Bourne, Coquitlam
