Many police services, almost every police service across this country, are tasked with the demands that are put before them—unprecedented amounts of civil unrest in our major urban centres, increasing crime in rural areas, repeat violent offenders who need to be monitored, and crime guns that are coming in from the U.S. in unprecedented numbers. We will exceed 2,000 crime guns this year again, with 91% of them coming in from the United States.
These are the dangers. These are the strains and drains on our resources, and this is where we need to be spending our time and attention.