Downtown Crime

[kcantor]

Can a City Thrive When Its Downtown Is Empty?

The office recession is real, with downtowns in major cities still missing a majority of their pre-pandemic workforce. San Francisco offers a case study in terms of the consequences.

www-governing-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[CaptainBL]

Edmonton inner-city senior program closes after 54 years - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

The drop-in program and rooming house closed Wednesday due to a lack of funding and an increase in violence to staff and seniors, according to the board of directors.

globalnews.ca

The news this past week has been especially disappointing. To learn that the seniors drop-in is closing largely in part due to increased security costs, vandalism, and aggression towards seniors and staff is sickening.

 

[Greenspace]

So if I’m reading the tea leaves correct: the proposed solution so far is replace additional EPS beat cops downtown with Sheriffs? Huh

Pretty much due to chronic staff shortages at EPS. 15 week pilot to help fill the gaps.

 

[roe_]

When your only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail...

 

[Greenspace]

From what I've been told, the approach below is what they will be doing with these new officers.

"He strongly suggests EPS officers and sheriffs use the method of "hot-spot policing" instead, citing studies he said found that officers simply being visible for 15 minutes a day can reduce crime in that space by 30 to 80 per cent.

"Just go, be in a place for 15 minutes. Be aware, be happy, say hello, be aware, be noticeable. No action imperative. [Officers] don’t need to get into people’s pockets, don’t need to arrest people on warrants, don’t need to write tickets," Jones said."

If EPS, sheriffs try a hard crackdown on inner-city Edmonton it could make things worse: criminologist

A former Edmonton Police Service officer believes bringing Alberta Sheriffs into downtown Edmonton is a risky plan that has the potential to backfire if not done properly.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[archited]

Standard procedure in bygone days.

 

[IanO]

Downtown...where all the lights are bright.

Jasper Avenue Needs the Help | Urban Affairs

For Edmonton’s Main Street, U of A’s Enterprise Square Move Comes Not a Moment too Soon

urbanaffairs.ca

 

[Greenspace]

Province refuses to say whether Calgary will get downtown sheriff patrols

A dozen provincial sheriffs will work with Edmonton police officers over 15 weeks to boost boots on the ground.

calgaryherald.com

 

[bodsbods9090]

From what I've been told, the approach below is what they will be doing with these new officers.

"He strongly suggests EPS officers and sheriffs use the method of "hot-spot policing" instead, citing studies he said found that officers simply being visible for 15 minutes a day can reduce crime in that space by 30 to 80 per cent.

"Just go, be in a place for 15 minutes. Be aware, be happy, say hello, be aware, be noticeable. No action imperative. [Officers] don’t need to get into people’s pockets, don’t need to arrest people on warrants, don’t need to write tickets," Jones said."

If EPS, sheriffs try a hard crackdown on inner-city Edmonton it could make things worse: criminologist

A former Edmonton Police Service officer believes bringing Alberta Sheriffs into downtown Edmonton is a risky plan that has the potential to backfire if not done properly.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

I mean, when I was in New York, just seeing police on most of the intersection corners close to Times Square made me feel safer for sure.

It definitely is a deterrent but this needs to be a permanent thing, not a one or two month experiment for Edmonton.

 

[Gronk!]

Downtown Edmonton has lost business due to social disorder: premier, recovery group

Edmonton's downtown has lost on business deals due to the safety issues plaguing it in recent months, the premier and a downtown advocate said this week.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[IanO]

Nothing new in that, but good to see even more attention to it.

Downtown was literally left to fend for itself for 3+ years with very few giving a shit about it; it was appalling.

Thankfully DECL, the EDBA, the DRC and a few others kept pushing.

 

[CaptainBL]

Shattered glass all over the sidewalk outside the Healey Ford building this morning. One of the windows not boarded up. Embarrassing to all of the downtown community to see this building in such poor condition and subject to continued vandalism.

 

[northlands]

Surprised there hasn't been any more fires recently there ^

 

[Avenuer]

Shattered glass all over the sidewalk outside the Healey Ford building this morning. One of the windows not boarded up. Embarrassing to all of the downtown community to see this building in such poor condition and subject to continued vandalism.

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Negligent property owner, either sell the property or redevelop it. Sitting on it like this isn't good for anyone.

 

[Greenspace]

^The property may have sold. Trying to confirm