This week, the Ridge Meadows RCMP announced that they were a mapping out a “red zone” for downtown Maple Ridge, B.C., a suburb east of Vancouver. A red zone ban is imposed either as a condition of parole, or a condition of release after an arrest. The Maple Ridge red zone is like extending that kind of ban to a pre-determined section of the city known to have high crime. Pre-mapped red zones exist in Vernon, Kelowna, Kamloops, Nanaimo and others, but the practice largely seems to be a B.C. Still, there is a judge in the equation — a red zone ban can’t simply be a unilateral action by the RCMP.

Source: National Post October 20, 2016 18:22 UTC