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Originally Posted by Slava
Yes, you definitely do. To me that's the issue here. We have a problem with violent offenders in society and escalating violent crimes.
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It is disconcerting that violent crimes have increased from the 2014/2015 lows. We're still below any violent crime rate prior to around 2007, but the levels have increased continually in the past five years. As I understand it, most of the blame goes to the opioid epidemic and related issues. I'm sure Covid didn't help.
Even if it's not directly related to opioids, so many of our public safety resources are being consumed by that crisis, that cracks are bound to form elsewhere.