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Originally Posted by opendoor
That's a great example of people's impressions not matching reality. By the numbers in the article you provided, random violent attacks in Vancouver in 2023 were down by 65% compared to 2019. But you still bring it up as if it's an escalating problem that needs to be solved.
And a lot of peoples' impressions about drugs and crime are like that. Media, politicians, etc. create a narrative, often using cherry picked or misleading data, and it just sticks in peoples' minds. So even when evidence is presented to the contrary (as I did earlier in this thread when you brought this very thing up), the impression remains.
Crime rates in Vancouver are near 60-year lows and 1/2 what they were 20 years ago, yet if you asked the average Conservative voter, they'd say it's out of control.
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The Youth detention center I used to work at that had 150 kids in it plus 3 feeder camps up in the valley with another 100 kids has currently closed all the feeder camps and has about 30 kids in it, youth crime has almost ceased to exist in Vancouver