TTC Special Constables don't have guns (there are 100 constables covering the entire TTC network 24/7). The TTC is hiring 55 more amidst this spate of violence.
When someone is getting stabbed to death with a knife or getting chased by a syringe wielding lunatic, they're supposed to use strong language and get close enough to the killer to use their OC Spray (and pray it gets into the perp's eyes)?
The problem is that when the Special Constables actually do their jobs, the woke left media jumps all over them and makes the TTC constables out to be jack booted thugs lynching the poor misunderstood victim. Instantly, words like racism, poverty, victim, institutional racism, bigotry, discrimination, systemic racism start getting thrown around like smarties at halloween. This results in 2 things. First, the politicians start wringing their hands together and start making phone calls to the TTC senior leadership boys and girls and come down hard on them for having a group of out of control power tripping thugs out there abusing the misunderstood victims who poverty has forced them to lash out (you and I would call them criminals or thugs or scumbags, but you know, that's just hate speech.) The second thing that happens is that the senior leadership at the TTC then call in the heads of TTC security division and berate and humiliate the heads of security and threaten to fire them for having a bunch of out of control Dirty Harrys working for them. Those guys then go on to assemble the rank and file and tell them in no uncertain terms that from this day forward they are not to engage with the thugs, criminals and dirt bags (my words), and that their job is only to observe and to call the police if there is an incident (because the guys in charge of security don't want to be berated by the Senior Leadership team and the Senior Leadership team don't want to be humiliated by politicians and the politicians don't like anything negative to be said about them in the media. The second thing that happens is that men and women who are employed as special constables to protect the law abiding public get discouraged and frankly fearful for their jobs and so they back off and just phone it in. And who can blame them.
What needs to be done when the woke leftist media publishes one of these stories is that the politicians need to tell them to fuck off (nicely of course), that the TTC constables are doing their job and they have their support. But they won't do that because that will only get the woke leftist media even more worked up and they will finally have a sexy story to work with like their American counterparts get all the time. So they will run with this story for months.
And if you think I'm crazy, this very thing has happened before with the TTC security. I recall it from maybe 15 years ago, or 10 years ago where the TTC busted some fucking asshole and the asshole was beatified by the media. In fact, it happened a couple of times in quick succession.
Surely you know that it's all about criminal rights in Canada and not about protecting the greater public from the criminals.
Here's a prime example of what happened just in 2021 when two special constables actually got fired.
And here's exactly what I'm talking about:
A long, tense debate ends in a decision to terminate the arrest powers of transit cops in February.
www.thestar.com
This is fucking INSANE already.