Plenty of crime is bred in poverty, where people have few options. But much crime also comes from the comfortable middle class, like the Bacon brothers of Kelowna. They didn’t come from downtown, urban mean streets, but rather from homes with manicured lawns and high-end autos.  This article aptly notes that – however fast and high criminals rise – it can all end with the speed of a bullet, like it did 10 days ago with Jonathan Bacon.

Veteran crime reporter Kim Bolan has filed an interesting story on a former RCMP officer who’s now on trial for allegedly trying to access a police data bank on Jonathan Bacon, the Red Scorpions leader who was gunned down last week in Kelowna. Now the former police officer’s also wanted by American authorities for allegedly taking part in a cross-border drug smuggling ring. Among the witnesses: a former border guard who’s already convicted of taking part in a massive crime ring.

This week’s murder in Kelowna called attention to just how prevalent gangs are in B.C. Members of three separate gangs (Red Scorpions, Hells Angels and Independent Soldiers) were fired upon by the killers, who got away. There are some 120 criminal organizations in B.C., according to police. Jonathan Bacon hasn’t been dead a week, and his story is already on school curriculum, to hopefully pull kids away from gang behaviour.

There was a police surveillance camera at the end of the street where the Bacon brothers lived. A family BMW was so armour-plated that it weighed more than a truck. There were plenty of foreshadowings of this week’s slaughter in Kelowna outside a luxury hotel, that killed one man, paralyzed a woman and injured three others. It would have been worse, as a stray bullet went into an art gallery. There’s next to no chance it’s over.

A leader of the Red Scorpions gang in B.C. is dead and five others – including a member of the Hells Angels – are in hospital after a brazen underworld hit at a posh resort in Kelowna, B.C. The Red Scorpions were born in a B.C. youth detention centre and highlight the importance of prisons and detention centres to the underworld. Expect things to get worse before they get better in both Winnipeg and the Lower Mainland of B.C.

Good work by a Winnipeg surveillance officer may have averted a massacre. It’s a sad sign that it’s considered a badge of honour to take part in biker-war-stupidity here and that family homes are targeted. The only badge of honour deserved here should go to the cop who literally put himself in the line of fire to save a life or lives. What if kids lived inside the targeted homes? What if neighbouring kids wandered into the line of fire? What if the idiots showed up at the wrong address? When I was a little boy, I used to visit my grandparent’s home in north-end Winnipeg. It wasn’t a rich neighbourhood but it felt proud and solid and safe. Sad to think that this is under threat by idiots who have no clue of the meaning of honour.

The old Hells Angels clubhouse in Hamilton will soon be the place to go for a clubhouse sandwich. You’re invited to take a peek this Saturday.

They’re named after the Roman god of inspired madness, but nothing too wild was observed at a gathering of the Bacchus Motorcycle Club in New Brunswick this weekend. There was also apparently no connection to Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, who painted the semi-nudie masterpiece, Bacchus, so don’t go to the Bacchus gathering looking for art of the non-tattoo variety either. No word on whether the Bacchus bikers will Harley up to Ottawa after their meeting to see the Carravagio exhibit there. Michelangelo Merisi da Carravagio was a bad boy of the 17th century, with a reputation for killing, prison breaking and all-around rebellion centuries before the Harley first hit the road. He was also an inspiration for Martin Scorcese. Who knows? Maybe the New Brunswick Bacchus boys would enjoy the show.

The horrors of the Norwegian slaughter have pushed that country’s one percenter clubs to come together - for the time being – to honour the dead. Even police bikers wanted to join the ride.

We can’t blame the Hells Angels or any of the usual suspects for prisoners walking free from Newmarket court. This bust-out was strictly an inside job.