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In 2021, Moose Jaw had a crime severity index of 127.18, up from 104.28 in 2020 and 110.35 in 2019. For 2021, among communitie­s with over 10k people, Moose Jaw placed 37th on 325.

The report, by Statistics Canada, also showed that Saskatchew­an had the highest crime rates among provinces in Canada in 2021, with a 3% jump from 2020, in violent and non-violent offenses.

Though the 2,434 drug offenses, with ecstasy, cocaine, opioids, methamphet­amine, marijuana, heroin and others dipped 7% in 2021 from 2020, the question LV௘²௘ZKDW DUH WKH PHQWDO KHDOWK DQG GUXJ DEXVH FRPSRnents of crime?

7KHUH ZDV D UHFHQW KRUUL¿F DWWDFN E\ WZR VXVSHFWV LQ Saskatchew­an that left 10 dead and 18 injured.

An angle for Saskatchew­an towards public safety, KDUP UHGXFWLRQ DQG FULPH SUHYHQWLRQ LV௘²௘ZKDW JDSV LQ PHQWDO KHDOWK RU VWUHWFKHV RI GUXJ LQÀXHQFHV FRXOG EH UHsponsibl­e for those spikes?

How does the memory play violence, hate or the hardened decision to cause pain? In what ways would a SRWHQWLDO SHUSHWUDWR­U ¿QG KHOS ZLWK SHUYDVLYH PHQWDO FDUH before devolving into dark states or becoming vulnerable to belonging with bad gangs? How would the affected and WKHLU ORYHG RQHV ¿QG IDVWHU EDODQFH IURP WKH WUDXPD GHpression, anxiety and intrusive thoughts that follow?

Brain science holds the cards for new understand­ing and approaches to mental health and drug abuse against crime in Saskatchew­an. The brain is the driver of experience­s. Thought and memory are decision makers of the states of mind.

How can this reduction be made for how care is scaled, digitally, across demography?

What is the role of thought in what instigates the decision to commit a crime? How are the fears of apprehensi­on or consequenc­es circumvent­ed, in memory, for random violence?

Thoughts, conceptual­ly, are the versions, representa­WLRQV RU HTXLYDOHQW­V RI WKH H[WHUQDO ZRUOG௘²௘PHDQLQJ WKH external world exists in the brain in the forms of thought. It is this version of the world that goes across locations in the brain, for what to know, how to feel and react to situations.

The object, situation and so on, are experience­s to the brain in the form of thought. Dreams, imaginatio­ns, inner voice, thinking, language, music, words, memories and others are all in the form of thought.

In neuroscien­ce, all sensory inputs or stimuli arrive for processing or integratio­n in the thalamus, except for

VPHOO SURFHVVHG LQ WKH ROIDFWRU\ EXOE²WKHUHDIWHU UHOD\HG to the cerebral cortex for interpreta­tion.

Sensory processing or integratio­n is theorized to be into thought or its form. This means that when external sensations arrive in the brain, they do so at relay or landing centers where they are processed into a uniform unit RU TXDQWLW\ ZKLFK LV WKRXJKW௘²௘HPHUJLQJ DV WKH QHZ LGHQtity of senses.

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Knowing is memory. The memory stores thought or its form. There are two types of stores in memory, micro and macro. Micro contains the smallest possible unique informatio­n on anything in the smallest possible unit, while macro collects similariti­es between two or more micros.

This means that since different sets of objects are known, they are respective­ly grouped based on similariti­es or commonness to reduce repetition­s or cluttering DJDLQVW QHXUDO HI¿FLHQF\

During activities and interactio­ns, micro stores are constantly transporti­ng to macro for what to remember, feel-like, understand, and so on. Sequences of relay by micro stores also matter in memory, not just the macro locations.

There are early-splits or go-before of micro stores during activities, following a previously establishe­d sequence. This early-split is what makes it possible to listen to someone, see something or infer what is next, as expected. It is often called prediction­s, as in predictive coding and predictive processing but principall­y rules of the memory.

Sequences are also responsibl­e for familiarit­y with things, even when details are not remembered, because the micro store travels the same route to macro stores. For example, watching or listening to an old video or audio, or going to a childhood residentia­l area or reading an old book and so on, knowing but not rememberin­g could be a function of sequence.

Sequence is also used to remember, while thinking. Forgotten sequence could make recalling tougher. Sequence

makes somethings sound cliché. Sequence also makes doing the same thing again and again tiring, boring or uninterest­ing. People seek new experience­s for new sequences of micro to macro stores in memory. Each neuron has thousands of synapses which, theoretica­lly, could also mean different sequences, of constructs of thought forms and memory.

The macro store has a principal spot where just one JRHV WR KDYH D GRPLQDQW LQÀXHQFH ,W LV ZKHUH GHSUHVVLRQ DQ[LHW\ DQG RWKHUV௘²௘DV PDFUR VWRUHV௘²௘JR WR FDXVH WKH most problems.

There are feelings destinatio­ns following memory stores, where actual feelings are [aside the feel-like in memory] then reaction to feelings, which could be parallel or perpendicu­lar.

There is no experience, decision or action beyond thought and memory.

Displaying their locations and destinatio­ns in the mind to explain experience­s, available on mobile phones in Saskatchew­an, or say Saskscare, could be a see-it-foryoursel­f approach to democratiz­e what is in the head to have more control.

It could also be useful to reach vulnerable groups as part of community programs, as well as to discourage drug abuse for users by seeking out matching experiencH­V௘²௘IRU FRUUHVSRQG­LQJ FKDQJHV WR WKRXJKW DQG PHPRU\௘²௘ZLWKRXW WKH KDUPIXO VXEVWDQFH

A new mental health aptitude could be the thought and PHPRU\ IXQFWLRQ RI VLWXDWLRQV DQG FRQGLWLRQV௘²௘ZKHUH for therapy, the function is also measured and applied, depending on limits and extents of both.

The future of crime prevention seems to be aligned with brain science, which is now a hyper prioritize­d situation for rights to safety and freedoms across Saskatchew­an and the rest of Canada.

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