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On Thursday we had another “gang related” accident – a guy somehow fell off a 4th floor balcony.

It was the apartment of Daniel Lovric – a guy that has had more than a few run-ins with the law.

Vancouver Sun: Daniel Lovric, the resident of the apartment in the 400-block of Westview Street, is “well known to police agencies in the [Lower Mainland],” Thiessen said.

Last month, Lovric, 26, had five gun charges against him stayed, according to court records. Those included: unauthorized possession of firearm, occupying a vehicle in which there is firearm, possession of a prohibited/restricted firearm with ammunition, defacing a firearm serial number and careless use of a firearm.

The Vancouver Sun has learned that Lovric is associated with one man wounded during a wild shootout at Richmond’s Dover Park in January 2007.

Lovric was also charged Dec. 12, 2008 with breaching conditions, but that charge was stayed Jan. 23 — the same day the firearms charges laid in January 2008 were dropped.

His associate, Sahand Askari, was one of three men shot during the Dover Park battle of 2007, during which more than 150 rounds from automatic weapons were fired in a popular neighbourhood green space by at least six suspects who had gathered. No one was ever charged, though police traced some of the guns back to a company with a licence to rent guns as movie props.

A suspect in the Dover Park case, Matin Pouyan was targeted in a Kitsilano shooting Feb. 8. He survived despite being hit six times in the parking lot of a Marketplace IGA about 11 p.m. that night — just as the store was closing.

Pouyan pleaded guilty to a gun charge in September 2007 after being caught with a gun in a car two weeks after the Dover Park incident.

So the gun laws we have in Canada that our judges refuse to enforce, haven’t slowed down these creeps at all. Why doesn’t it translate into jail time? Why do our judges continue to grant bail and drop charges?

You could make the case that our court system is aiding and abetting gang activity.

Right now our police Chief  is pushing for a “30 strikes and you’re out” law. Vancouver police are currently monitoring 379 chronic offenders, including 27 “super chronics.” The top 25 per cent have more than 54 convictions and the top 10 per cent more than 77. Six offenders have more than 100 convictions.

You’d think that after 5 or 10 convictions, maybe even 20,  you’d at least get a visit to jail.

You can thank Liberal Restorative Justice for the current situation we face in Vancouver.

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