{"id":1947,"date":"2025-10-22T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/repeat-offenders-must-come-off-the-streets-winnipeg-mayor-tells-federal-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:20:51","slug":"repeat-offenders-must-come-off-the-streets-winnipeg-mayor-tells-federal-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/repeat-offenders-must-come-off-the-streets-winnipeg-mayor-tells-federal-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat offenders \u2018must come off the streets,\u2019 Winnipeg mayor tells federal lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-55834\">\n<div>\n<header>      <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/thegitchemanitou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/55834-repeat-offenders-must-come-off-the-streets-winnipeg-mayor-tells-federal-lawmakers.jpg\" alt=\"repeat-offenders-\u2018must-come-off-the-streets,\u2019-winnipeg-mayor-tells-federal-lawmakers\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Repeat offenders \u2018must come off the streets,\u2019 Winnipeg mayor tells federal lawmakers<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Manitoba\u00b7NewWinnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham told a parliamentary committee Tuesday the number of crimes involving breach of bail, probation and similar court orders in the city went up for a third year in a row in 2024, despite a decrease in overall crime.Crimes involving breach of bail and other release conditions on the rise, says Scott GillinghamArturo Chang  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 21, 2025 8:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes agoWinnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham spoke to a parliamentary committee in Ottawa on Tuesday. (Parliament of Canada)Winnipeg\u2019s mayor says crimes involving breach of release conditions are trending upward,  despite a decrease in overall crime.On Tuesday, Scott Gillingham told a parliamentary committee the number of crimes involving breach of bail, probation and similar court orders in Winnipeg went up for a third year in a row in 2024, citing figures from the city\u2019s police service.He was one of the witnesses presenting to lawmakers in Ottawa ahead of the introduction of legislation that would impose tougher release conditions for people awaiting trial.Gillingham said Winnipeg recorded 5,561 crimes related to breaches of release conditions last year \u2014 a nine per cent increase from 2023 \u2014 and the upward trend has continued through 2025.\u201dIt\u2019s not about catching people and putting them away and throwing away the key,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cBut right now, repeat violent offenders who are threatening our community need to come off our streets.\u201dPrime Minister Mark Carney said last Thursday the federal government will put forward a bill imposing harsher sentences for violent and repeat offenders. It will also put the onus on repeat offenders accused of committing major crimes to prove they deserve bail.Gillingham said four out of five people arrested by a joint RCMP and Winnipeg police unit targeting violent offenders since it launched in 2023 were free on bail, parole or probation, and almost one in five had been arrested by the unit more than once.Other witnesses at Tuesday\u2019s hearing told lawmakers amendments to federal legislation alone won\u2019t address root causes that lead people to reoffend, and that governments must take into account factors like high remand population, systemic racism and the presumption of innocence when looking at the problem.However, Gillingham argued the justice system \u201cdoesn\u2019t even acknowledge the moral possibility that releasing a habitual criminal to reoffend could be considered wrongful bail.\u201d\u201dWe can\u2019t operate as if victims of preventable crime by known offenders are just collateral damage to the fairness of our justice system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat offenders \u2018must come off the streets,\u2019 Winnipeg mayor tells federal lawmakers Manitoba\u00b7NewWinnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham told a parliamentary committee Tuesday the number of crimes involving breach of bail, probation and similar court orders in the city went up for a third year in a row in 2024, despite a decrease in overall crime.Crimes involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,127,1],"tags":[116,126],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-manitoba","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}