Microsoft teams if free.. I think… maybe not anymore.
tyler_3135 on
$300k is better than releasing prisoners or having potentially violent prisoners travel commercial.
And at a tune of $1000 per flight, I’m guessing this is less luxury jet and more small bush planes.
BiBoFieTo on
What do you want? Fuckin’ Hannibal Lecter strapped into seat 34A?
DavidBrooker on
“That’s a staggering amount of money that could go towards other things, like hiring more sheriffs, hiring community corrections workers, hiring additional prosecutors that we say are desperately needed,” said Andrew Duncan, a Crown prosecutor
$300,000 would hire maybe one-and-a-half sheriffs or three-quarters of a prosecutor.
Kevbot1000 on
You know, not *every* expense is unnecessary. Less than half-a-million in total is honestly not bad at all.
pigsbounty on
$300k is an absolutely insignificant amount of money in the grand scheme.
TheForks on
This is normal. I used to do court flights in other provinces. It’s usually for prisoners who are kept in a southern prison but flown to their community for court. I’m not sure about BC, but in a lot of cases the flights were to communities without regular scheduled service or for folks who shouldn’t be on commercial flights. Lawyers and judges were often flown up in separate aircraft, also private charters.
xylopyrography on
>In some cases, that journey is happening by private plane, at a cost of about $1,000 per flight.
“BC taxpayers have paid a reasonable fee for transport of dangerous criminals”.
The article talks about hiring like 4 prosecutors for this cost. By my math it’s about 3 if you assume a magical 50% reduction in cost here. But.. there are 500 of them. So +0.6% more? Ok…
EnterpriseT on
Wow wasting our tax dollars. Just book ’em in a middle seat have the window and aisle customers “keep an eye on them” in economy…
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Apparently zoom doesn’t exist in BC
Microsoft teams if free.. I think… maybe not anymore.
$300k is better than releasing prisoners or having potentially violent prisoners travel commercial.
And at a tune of $1000 per flight, I’m guessing this is less luxury jet and more small bush planes.
What do you want? Fuckin’ Hannibal Lecter strapped into seat 34A?
“That’s a staggering amount of money that could go towards other things, like hiring more sheriffs, hiring community corrections workers, hiring additional prosecutors that we say are desperately needed,” said Andrew Duncan, a Crown prosecutor
$300,000 would hire maybe one-and-a-half sheriffs or three-quarters of a prosecutor.
You know, not *every* expense is unnecessary. Less than half-a-million in total is honestly not bad at all.
$300k is an absolutely insignificant amount of money in the grand scheme.
This is normal. I used to do court flights in other provinces. It’s usually for prisoners who are kept in a southern prison but flown to their community for court. I’m not sure about BC, but in a lot of cases the flights were to communities without regular scheduled service or for folks who shouldn’t be on commercial flights. Lawyers and judges were often flown up in separate aircraft, also private charters.
>In some cases, that journey is happening by private plane, at a cost of about $1,000 per flight.
“BC taxpayers have paid a reasonable fee for transport of dangerous criminals”.
The article talks about hiring like 4 prosecutors for this cost. By my math it’s about 3 if you assume a magical 50% reduction in cost here. But.. there are 500 of them. So +0.6% more? Ok…
Wow wasting our tax dollars. Just book ’em in a middle seat have the window and aisle customers “keep an eye on them” in economy…
There is such a thing as FaceTime