I think crime has increased significantly in the last year in the Beltline area. 1st SW was always bad, but now that the bars there are shut down I swear they're running a drive thru drug sales operation now. Sketchy people congregating outside at all hours. A raid or two wouldn't hurt, but then again, neither would a Daisycutter...
Parkade smash and grabs are also an epidemic in condos city wide, but particularly in the downtown ones.
Bring on the cops, they're sorely needed. That and enact some anti panhandler laws... screw the social activists. When they live next to them and have to run the gauntlet daily, then perhaps they'll get some perspective. Madrid / Lisbon didn't have 1/10th the number of beggars we have here.
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