{"id":20823,"date":"2013-06-25T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:39:10","slug":"maybe-crime-doesnt-pay-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/maybe-crime-doesnt-pay-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe crime <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> pay after all&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/2013\/06\/25\/toronto-police-arrest-35-lay-144-charges-in-drug-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">680News<\/a> reported on a Toronto Police drug investigation that ended up with 35 arrests on various charges. That sounds impressive until you get down to the summary of what contraband was confiscated in &#8220;Project Wanted&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirteen grams of crack cocaine were seized, seven grams of marijuana, three grams of heroin, 34 grams of ecstasy. The total street value of the drugs was valued at $5,000. The police also seized $1,710.00.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless they managed to flush a huge amount of drugs before being arrested, you&#8217;d have to say that these people wouldn&#8217;t be listed as &#8220;drug kingpins&#8221;. And these are not amateurs, either:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police also allege that the total number of convictions of those arrested is 723. The average number of convictions on each person\u2019s criminal record is 20.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven of those arrested were on bail at the time the crimes were alleged to have happened. Nine were on probation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>680News reported on a Toronto Police drug investigation that ended up with 35 arrests on various charges. That sounds impressive until you get down to the summary of what contraband was confiscated in &#8220;Project Wanted&#8221;: Thirteen grams of crack cocaine were seized, seven grams of marijuana, three grams of heroin, 34 grams of ecstasy. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[343,119,98,207],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-drugs","tag-police","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20824,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}