Doug Collins

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HEY, YOU pundits and priests of the anti-capital punish-
ment and let’s-be-kind-to-criminals brigade: how come you
haven’t been talking “About that National Parole Board
study that shows there were 130 killings in 12 years by con-
victs who got out of jail on early release? Aad why was the
study kept under wraps while Parliament was debating the

death penalty?

Because it might have persuad-
ed some ditherers in Ottawa that
capital punishment might have its
uses after all, that’s why. And we
wouldn’t know about the study
even now if it hadn’t been that an
Ottawa newspaper got hold of it
under the Freedom of Informa-
tion Act.

That 130 convicts killed after
being released on parole or man-
datory supervision shows that at
one death for each guy told to go
home and be a good boy, 130 peo-
ple were wiped out who would still
have been alive if parole and man-
datory supervision did not exist.

Even more important, though,
is that ‘‘at least’? nine men
previously convicted for murder
or manslaughter had killed again
after they got out. But the Svend
Robirsons, Pauline Jewetts and
stinko bleeding-heart editorial
writers who howled so much
about the barbarity of capital
punishment have not had a word
to say about this news.

One of the wettest arguments in
the death penalty issue was that if
Donald Marshall the Nova Sco-
tian Indian had been executed for
a murder he didn’t commit, that
wrong could never have been
righted. But that overlooks the
point that he was tried for second

degree murder, which didn't in-
volve the death penalty anyway.

But what about those who lost
their fives as a result of known
killers being released? Where are
the editorials about them, or the
speeches in Parliament?

The only comment J am aware
of has come from Professor
Michael Jackson, a criminologist
at UBC who was busy telling an
interviewer not to worry, that
killers can be saved for ‘ta future
productive life’’. In short, he was
peddling the standard balderdash
that is so typical of his breed. For
here we had nine killers who were
not saved for a future productive
life, but for the production of
death,

Jackson had what he con-
sidered to be a trump card: only
two men who had originally been
convicted for murder, as distinct
from manslaughter, had killed
again. And that, he declared
smugly, showed what a
marvellous job the parole board
had done in ensuring public
safety.

Even if we take that at face
value it means that there were two
unnecessary deaths against the
one that would never have taken
place in the Marshall case.

But the professor was weaving
weasel words. It makes no dif-

ference toa dead man whether his
hiller was up) for murder or
manslaughter. Dead is dead.
Also. any evuy who kills again
after being convicted of
manslaughter was probably guilty
of murder in the first place but got
fucky.

It isn’t only u matter of parolees
and the like knocking people off,
either. Retired RCMP Superinten-
dent Bruce Northrop, who pro-
bably has better records on
homicides than any university
professor, knows of about 37
repeat killers in this country. Pco-
ple, that is, who had been con-
victed of manslaughter or murder
and had killed again.

The ghastly Archambault
Prison murders in Quebec spring
to mind. Three guards were
murdered in cold bivod by in-
mates who were all in for first-
degree murder. Murder prospers
in prison, in fact, although you
wouldn’t know it by listening to
criminologists.

The Northrop studies supplied
to Ottawa by the Canadian
Association of Chiefs of Police
showed that 95 inmates were kill-
ed by other inmates between 1976
and 1985. When the death penalty
was around, such murders were a
mere trickle.

In prison or out, those who die
because we are too pansy to give
the worst killers the fate they
deserve have no comeback. Stack
them against Donald Marshall.
And as we now see, they are not
even mentioned when an official
study shows what's going on.
Especially not by academics.

SENIOR AND CHIEF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS
New appointments made in
N. Shore Health Department

RECENT STAFF shuffles in the North Shore Health
Department have resulted in the appointment of new senior
and chief public health inspectors.

Rick Kwan, who has been the
acting senior public health inspec-
tor since July, has now been of-
ficially appointed to the position,

He takes over from Bill Kim-

RICK Kwan,...named to senior

public health inspector.

mett, who became the North
Shore’s chief public health inspec-
tor in June after Dave Cooper, the
former chief, retired. .

Kwan joined the North Shore
Health Department in 1979 and
most recently served as North
Vancouver City’s noise control of-
ficer.

Of his latest appointment, Kwan
said he was looking forward to the
challenge of his new job, “I'd been
at the old job for awhile so this
should be a challenge...something
different.”

t.immett joined the local health
department in 1972 as one of the
area's four public health inspec-
tors.

North Shore’s health department
got a new chief medical health of-
ficer in July when Dr. Brian

BILL Kimmett...appointed North
Shore’s chief public health inspec-
tor.

O’Connor replaced Dr. Eric Mc-
Bean, who retired from the posi-
tion in June 1986.

In addition to four public health
inspectors, the North Shore has
one noise control officer and one
vector (disease) control officer.

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