Pubdate: Sun, 01 Feb 2004
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Randy Lahey
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

A FANTASTIC WASTE OF MONEY

RE "Tide is high on prevention," (Jan. 29): My only "grave concern" is that 
the province and police cannot find better ways to enforce public safety 
than raiding grow ops. The only reason we have seen such a rise in busts is 
because politicians and police are wasting more time and effort on grow ops 
than confronting the real problems in our fair city. A budget shortfall and 
increasing violence are far more tangible statistics.

I can only wonder if the police themselves were stoned in 2000, busting 
only two ops for half a million dollars. Are there more grow ops in just 
three years, or are the police just spending more time on it? This summit 
is nothing more than a fantastic waste of money in our
deficit-ridden times.

Randy Lahey

(Are there more grow ops? We think the answer must be "yes")
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MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman