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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
There's no doubt crime has increased on all fronts, but Davidson is not wrong about the stats argument. It's more effective to talk in large percentage increases when conveying a message to the general public. Media and politicians use this all the time (UCP waxed this all the time during the last election about the corporate tax rate). If you had two murders in a town, and the previous year you had one, that's a 100% increase in the murder rate. And someone will most likely contextualize as such.
The report also uses statistics within a 250m radius of the Shumir compared to previous numbers. What did they expect to find? Lower numbers? Maybe its more accurate to measure against similarly-position urban consumption sites in other similar cities and see what those fluctuations are.
All this said, I do believe there is a better spot for the safe injection site, I just don't know where.
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We should round them up and put them in camps. Give them all the drugs they want. If they want to get sober, they can go to another controlled camp with no access to drugs. Stay sober for - IDK, say 45 days - then they can be released.
As a taxpayer and a citizen, I have no interest in coddling to the best interests of junkies. Let's put productive people first and ship the junkies somewhere out of sight and out of mind. I'd be furious if you tried to open a safe injection site around me.