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Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of North America. No one is even close. Congrats.
This is because of drug addiction.
Therefore...?
The safe injection site has accomplished what? Three Million a year.
Great governance by Coty hall and The Nutty One, by the warm-hearted, deeply caring Preem and the ever-distant Federal Sleepyheads.
Treatment, anyone?
Have I mentioned treatment?
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This is my favorite part of the story:
. . . Vancouver city police are issuing a unique warning to potential bank robbers that if they rob a bank they will be caught.
Thousands of plastic change purses inscribed with the warning are being handed out on the Downtown Eastside by beat officers. . . .
Mo.
I was fortunate when I worked for a large Canadian bank that the shooting holdups occurred either just before my transfer to or just after I left a branch. It was a time when the manager and accountant were REQUIRED to have guns. When my position required that a gun was to be in my desk I nailed it down as it inevitably always pointed at me when the drawer was opened. The wildest branch was at Hastings and Columbia where the holdups could be counted on at least once a month. (Along with the drug dealers and buyers doing their business at the customer counters.) When banks finally decided the guns were redundant- scrapping took place. (For every dollar a robber got employees scammed a hundred.) So what has changed in forty years? Not a damn thing. A regular occurrence outside the bank's front door on Hastings was cops and druggies with the worst incident being the dealer having all his front teeth pried out, to get at the drugs, by the arresting officers . ( My job was to clean up the mess because no one else would.) And here we are now with the politicians still unable or unwilling to deal with the problem then or now as long as it is not NIMBY. ie in Vancouver's creme-de-la-creme's back yard west of Granville. (as if drug dealing isn't already a problem there.)
At 6:30 AM one morning this week on CKNW news I heard the following story: The Nutty One said that 65% of the persons working in the downtown core get there by walking."Vancouver is the first city in North America to reach this goal" I phoned the news reporter and asked him if he had noticed the hordes marching across the bridges. He admitted he hadn't. Story vanished from the news reports until 10 AM when it was back there again.
Sent the same message to Think City (Gordon Price, SFU et al) and added perhaps it is time for an INTERVENTION. Strange. They have not replied.
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