14 days ago
CBC
Crown attorneys across Newfoundland and Labrador are increasingly being handed files dealing with gun crime, violent offences and homicides, according to the association that represents them. "We're not at the stage yet where we're not prosecuting matters because we don't have the resources," said Patten on Wednesday. Patten says an apparent uptick in violent crime over the last several years, paired with an under-resourced prosecution office, is troubling. Numbers from Statistics Canada support what Patten and his colleagues are seeing: the province saw a nearly 20 per cent increase from 2020 to 2021 in the violent crime severity index. "Unless there's parity with other jurisdictions and unless we end up getting more resources, we're going to continue to see problems."
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