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Fine lets do it, great idea. Let the cops open fire on some of these scumbags that swarm random people and leave them for dead.
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At present Transit Cops have little power other than issuing fare evasion tickets which carry a $150 dollar fine. Anyone else and you can take it court and have it thrown out due to the lack of legal authority of Transit Cops. There's only 36 of them for a whole city of million. Someone can spit, take a $hit, take a ****, drink, smoke and do whatever they want on LRT platform downtown if they are on the sidewalk portion below the steps and just take it to court to have the charges lifted. They can also do the same thing on a packed rush hour train and if its on 7th ave can shutdown the entire ctrain system for the city during rush hour if they time it right. If it is transit cops that show up all they can do is issue a warning. If it is real police then they will charge them but usually the transit cops are the ones that show up because of a turf war they have going on with the real guys. Transit cops also cannot carry any weapons.
As for the Public Behaviour Bylaw, there's a reason why downtown is not a place where you can live and raise a family. Just in front of the Centre street station and City Hall Station there are so many crack deals happening out in the open. There's so many aggressive panhandlers. Just east of City Hall on the otherside of the fence east of 3 st E. (near crack-cul-de-sac) there are so many panhandelers, homeless, criminals, drug junkies, prostitutes, etc. Usually there are several people sleeping underneath the 4th ave flyover. One morning I came to Centre Street station at 6 am via train and saw 6 people sleeping in sleeping bags. One of them started to follow me and asked for change. I told him to get a job and if he didn't stop asking me that I would let my knuckles do the talking. He stopped bothering me immediately. Another place where you see this kind of crap is at 8 st station. If you like this type of stuff in the city center then we should keep the existing laws. If not then we should see that city council passes that bylaw so that garbage like this can be removed from our downtown. If it were up to me the Cecil, The mustard seed, and drop in center would all be relocated to Forst Lawn (aka the dump) or closed down for good.