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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
The way you make the C-Train and downtown/Beltline safer / seem safer is by getting more people in those areas. More people on the C-Train, on the platforms, in the core, etc. This disorder has always existed to some degree, but the disorder became more prevalent when people stopped coming into downtown and using transit over the pandemic.
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I totally agree that having a high ratio of non-psychos/criminals to psychos/criminals makes an area feel (and be) safer. While there are less non-psychos downtown compared to pre-pandemic/oil crash, the psycho content has gone WAY up, and we aren't going to be able to dilute it enough without some real action.
Which brings up this:
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
With that being said, I also don't think the indifference-disguised-as-compassion approach being taken by the City and the Province does bugger all to help matters or bring people back in.
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Throwing people in a clean room with medical supervision and free needles to get high, or throwing them in a jail cell are not going to solve the problem. Letting people live their life like this is not humane. We need to do way more, and it needs to be a coordinated national, provincial and municipal response to have any chance in hell of working. And we all need to suck it up and pay for it, because not doing it is going to cost us all way more.