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A 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with a series of sexual assaults in Vancouver and Burnaby.

Many of which i can't repeat. because i've been talking about race and the criminal justice system all day on this network as it relates to this parole hearing. it is funny to me that this is a country about second chances until it relates to o.j. simpson. so the whole concept of someone serves their time, they are a model prisoner, they do the thing that are asked of them to do while they are incarcerated, then when this time for them to be paroled and the parole commission said they've met all of the requirements, low risk offender, and they are granted parole, now all of a sudden there is a...

Things asked of them to do while incarcerated and when it's time to be paroled and the parole commission says they're a low risk offender and they're granted parole, now there's a sense he should serve this infinite amount of time not for the botched robberies, but for the alleged crime that happened in the 1990s which the parole board said they got thousands of letters of people urging them not to grant patrol because of the verdict in the murder trial. >> the interesting thing is you, as a person, you may not agree with the verdict, but the jury decided on the verdict and it is what it is. y...

Including especially simpson, simply ignore it and treat it as if it is not a real problem. but i can't say that the board was wrong in what it did. you know, he served nine years, he was a good prisoner. that's what parole is supposed to be. >> let's get everyone's reaction. areva martin, your reaction. >> not surprised. this is what happened in the earlier parole hearing, and he was deemed a low risk offender, and it's not likely given his age and given the other factors that they had to consider that he will reoffend. so i think this was the outcome that everyone expected. if you were willi...

That the state leaders have thought they were supposed to play and that is to demonstrate that they are tough on crime. and not just because of the economy, but because of a lot of other reasons. mainly that we know so much -- well, that was the politics. but we have so much better knowledge today about what works to stop the cycle of recidivism than we did when we started down this prison building path. and the new question -- >> tell us about it. tell us about the new way. >> so the new way is based on advances in research. we have risk assessment instrument that didn't exist 25, 30 years ag...