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Jamie Sarkonak: Provinces should hit gangs where it hurts — by going after window tint

All-black windows are a hallmark of bad driving and organized crime. Why not kill two birds with one stone?

The fully tinted-out vehicle is one of the great villains of Canadian traffic. It’s more likely to drive aggressively, ripping through residential zones and weaving through high-density freeway traffic far above the speed limit. Even worse than its road etiquette is what’s inside: people, possibly wanted on warrants, along with their drugs and guns.

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That’s why the opaque-windowed car is the perfect target for any province that wants to make substantive change in the fight against organized crime — without depending on the feds.

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Window tint is a simple matter of traffic regulation, placing it squarely within provincial jurisdiction. And it’s regulated for good reason: completely darkened windows on the entire car reduce driver visibility and the tint can complicate extraction in an emergency. They also make the job of traffic enforcement much more dangerous for the officers on the front line. It’s a lot easier for the occupants of that tinted-out hellcat to ambush the sheriff who pulled them over if he can’t see inside on the approach.

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