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Innocent people don't regularly accept Plea Bargains.

Yes they do:

Plea bargaining and the innocent

Innocent people are pleading guilty

Innocence is irrelevant

Why innocent people plead guilty

How to convince an innocent client to plead guilty

Ultimately Ford is a fiscal conservative and leans social libertarian.

So what GP said: a Trumpette. "fiscal conservative and leans social libertarian" is an apt description of the basis of most Trump policies that could be compared to Ford (I mean, can't exactly compare's Trump's military policy and foreign policy to a provincial leader)

Or are you some kind of racist who thinks any mention to Trump is just a slur on the person's character and not his policies?

Safe injection sites don't help the poor, they hurt them, increase crime, and spill over into other neighborhoods.

I love how you accuse the other guy of spewing talking points, but these sound like talking points to me. Do you have any citations? A quick search landed me quite a few links saying the opposite.

https://www.themarshallproject...

https://torontosun.com/2016/07...

Ask BC how it's working out.

One of the first links from my searches: looks like they think it's great and wants to expand it
http://mynorthwest.com/869125/...

And it's not just BC that's been doing it. Rest of the world has been experimenting and researching the results.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

The Forbes article mentions that in absence of government action, private groups are trying safe injection sites themselves. Read: the idea isn't some from big bad government top down, there's a grass roots free market movement for it - so I think a social libertarian like Ford would approve.

But keep going and telling everyone how it's all Ford's fault, not McGuinty or Wynne.

I don't see GP blaming Ford for what happened (the past). He's saying what will happen under Ford (the future). I don't know if his accusation/prediction will be true, but I see no relevance in the rest of your post rambling about the past.

It would not be denied. Prisoners are required to receive proper and up to date medical care.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And also ABAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now pull the other one.

Most inmates are convicted of non-violent offenses, and are not a physical threat to other people

Not true. 54% of persons incarcerated in the US are there for violent crimes. A number of the rest are in there for things like drunk driving, which may not be a violent crime, but certainly presents a physical threat to other people.

And in how many cases, the victim is pressured to falsely withdraw a true claim of rape? It happens. How often? Nobody knows because no one in a suitable position wants to gather such statistics. Just like other statistics that show the police in a bad light are not collected.

Read this case in which a woman who was proven to be the victim of rape was let down by the police, forced to withdraw her claim, prosecuted for a false report, yet was eventually vindicated.

If this guy had been black, the pizza parlor would have been nuked from space.

Useful tip: You're more likely to be shot by police if you're white while carrying a weapon. It's in all the crime stats you'd care to look at. Don't let that fake media narrative get you down.

Citations missing.

That's easy enough:

Currently about 97% of federal "convictions" are guilty pleas. Other topics like the "trial penalty" are common enough subjects someone with your low user-number should know, and are easily found in search engines.

The common practice is for prosecutors to heap on an enormous pile of federal crimes until the risk of happening to be found guilty of some obscure aspect of one of them, like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that potentially forbids screen names under penalty of jail time, that the person realizes the relatively short prison stay is better than legal defense that quickly reaches six-figure costs in addition to a high chance of many years in prison, versus a few tens of thousands of costs and a few months to a few years in prison.

For most victims of this type of aggressive prosecution it is only a matter of how much they can afford to fight the prosecutor, not a matter of actual justice for wrongs done.

Here's how it actually works.

The BATF is old and outdated, whose duties should properly be broken up and parcelled out to more relevant federal agencies (FDA, FBI, and so on).

Consequently, every couple of years they look for a big flashy bust that will put them in the news to justify their budget.

And so in recent years the BATF has given us Ruby Ridge massacre, the siege at Waco, the "fast and furious" scandal (where the BATF gave guns to the Mexican drug cartels, said guns were later used to kill a US border patrol agent), amd so on and so on.

So that's the situation. A worthless pack of screw-ups looking to justify their budget every couple of years.

Look for some clueless McDonald's owner to get caught illegally dumping grease, and paraded in front of the cameras for a few months.

The BATF is a stupid, worthless department(*) that was moved from the Treasury department to the Justice department as part of the Homeland Security act.

(*) Here's a quote from Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.):

“The ATF is a scandal-ridden, largely duplicative agency that lacks a clear mission. Its 'Framework' is an affront to the Second Amendment and yet another reason why Congress should pass the ATF Elimination Act,"

Funnily many of the examples you provided are driven by the enforcement of white supremacy perpetuated by the anti-drug establishment.

Here's somebody who developed that idea for the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) and made a good argument for the racism motivation.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2015/...
Art Cohen and Selwyn Ray: The lessons of late April in Baltimore
8 May, 15
BMJ

After years of suffering and resignation about disrespect and mistreatment at the hands of local police, young and older African-American residents of inner city west and east Baltimore, joined by others, came together these past two weeks to say: “we’ve had enough.” The spark for this was the fatal injuring, while in police custody on 12 April, of 25 year old Freddie Gray, who died a week later on 19 April. Gray was a resident of the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and also a childhood victim of lead paint poisoning. He was arrested for making eye contact with a policeman and then trying to run away. His death acted as the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.

Fortunately, the Baltimore City States Attorney took swift action on 1 May to charge all six police officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray.

Lesson #1—The public’s health includes being free not only from the threat of gun violence, but also from the violence suffered at the hands of police officers and other government agencies.

Lesson #2—A long history in Baltimore and elsewhere of police disrespect and abuse of authority eventually can become intolerable and lead to explosions of public outrage, some of which may include violence against property or persons. The relentless, massive “war on drugs” is largely responsible for this police abuse. America’s longstanding decision to criminalize the abuse of drugs has virtually eliminated the practice of requiring “probable cause” for arrests, and has led to thousands of lives damaged and wasted by wholesale warehousing in jails and prisons.

Lesson #3—This specific public outrage about police misconduct is fueled by a broader and deeper public outrage at the severe economic, social, and health disparities which have persisted for many years within some Baltimore City neighborhoods.

https://www.themarshallproject...
04.29.2015
Q&A
David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing.”
By Bill Keller
(The war on drugs led to ignoring the Bill of Rights.)
Probable cause was destroyed by the drug war.
the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

You can add years of thuggery by Baltimore law enforcement:

https://www.themarshallproject...