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TCHC's crime tipster incentive sets bad precedent, say some observers
" The reward, they argue, sends a message to other TCHC tenants that they should “snitch” on their neighbours if they want their maintenance woes addressed sooner.
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Gapka is concerned Jones’ “riches for snitches” incentive will pit neighbour against neighbour, and even highrise against highrise.
“This is the wrong message to send because it will create a society where we won’t trust our neighbours,” she said. “It’s an old Roman Empire tactic; pitting one group of disadvantaged people against another.”
Mitchell Kosny, associate director of Ryerson University’s school of urban and regional planning and a former TCHC chair, called Jones’ reward system a backwards approach to community building.
“It’s almost like they’re rewarding communities for having problems,” he said. “It’s like, ‘We’re worse off than them, so give us money.’ It’s an opposite way of building collaborative networks. I’m not sure community safety comes from a bounty-hunter approach to patrolling hallways.”
David Hyde, an independent security consultant, said the TCHC should foster a broader system of trust between communities and police, rather than “dangling a financial carrot to people in communities where some are desperate for these changes and may be willing to stick their necks out to get them.” "
http://www.mississauga.com/news-sto...entive-sets-bad-precedent-say-some-observers/
