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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And crime rates aren’t the main issues. People - especially women - do not feel safe in places where distressed people are using drugs, out of their heads, and passed out. Because women don’t feel safe in environments that appear to be unpoliced. Polls show it’s women who feel less safe on public transit and public spaces. Those who have a choice avoid using public transit. Those who don’t (the working class and poor) use it in fear. You can call them hysterical, but that won’t change the way they feel.
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Looking at overall crime rates is misleading anyway.
We aren't talking about violent crime between people who know each other, domestic violence etc.
It's random attacks on the street that has people concerned and we were seeing about 4 per day in Vancouver in 2021 at peak.
It's the guy stabbing a random guy in a Tim Hortons, random Asian women getting punched during covid, or the 2 random stabbing incidents at Whiterock beach last week (one man died).
I'm not saying these are all due to drug policy (only), but the concerns people have are not hysterics. That's falsely dismissive.