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Downtown Crime
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northlands
Senior Member
Someone posted a few years ago here also that EPS had a fairly significant portion of their force also on some sort of disability leave. Wish I could find the post but I swear it was over a hundred officers.
Unfortunately I do not think that is uncommon among policing forces in Canada. It’s a tough ass job that the last few years has become under a microscope for all actions. I wouldn’t be a downtown beat cop with EPS if you paid me $250k/year.
IanO
Superstar
This is a 'crime'. Whoever took the vinyl off of the grocery windows decided this was good enough.
Also, I'm unclear if this is recyclable...
Also, I'm unclear if this is recyclable...
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Ignore the MLI thing, but crime has been increasing nationally over the past decade.
MacLac
Senior Member
This is a 'crime'. Whoever took the vinyl off of the grocery windows decided this was good enough.
Also, I'm unclear if this is recyclable...
View attachment 695336Did you call this in?
David A
Senior Member
Interesting, it did go up here some but has also come down so seems fairly stable over the last decade. However, I do think the crimes related to social disorder here have become more visible and there has been less enforcement. It may have become more concentrated or is happening more now in certain areas and probably less is also being reported.
archited
Senior Member
And internationally as the wealth gap widens.
Gronk!
Senior Member
NE of downtown, in Little Italy
www.ctvnews.ca
McCauley residents looking forward to increased police presence
While the McCauley area has been without a dedicated beat team since 2023, current EPS leaders say that could change soon.
www.ctvnews.ca
IanO
Superstar
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IanO
Superstar
In Vancouver right now for work. While Granville and East Hastings certainly are very poor and deep in issues, overall it's much, MUCH different here compared to some of the challenges our city is facing.
We MUST deal with open drug use, crimes of opportunity, gang activity and disorder.
We MUST deal with open drug use, crimes of opportunity, gang activity and disorder.
David A
Senior Member
Interesting how Vancouver manages to keep its problems contained to a fairly small portion of downtown, while Edmonton fails to do so. I wonder if anyone from the City of Edmonton has ever looked at how they do it.
BrettB
Active Member
It doesn't.
The challenges in Vancouver are just the same ones Ian enumerated, some concentrated such as poverty, disorder, and open drug use in the DTES and gang activity in the suburbs. The difference is, none of these issues are concentrated in the downtown areas where most people are likely to visit.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
Also the perception of disorder is a lot different because they have more people out and about and the disorder and drug use goes more unnoticed in most areas outside DTES. They also have much more crime issues in the suburbs than Edmonton does (notably Surrey's gang activity).
Offworld
Active Member
Uh, 100% gonna disagree with you there. It's an issue throughout the entire metro Vancouver area, all the way out to the Fraser Valley and south to White Rock. The only area that is generally able to escape the nuttiness is West Van, away from its commercial areas.
David A
Senior Member
Perhaps it has changed more recently, but last time I was there I spent time around Granville Street in Vancouver, which is not one of their best areas downtown. Compared to our downtown then it actually seemed much better.