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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Many people already avoid the Market at night and have done so for many years. Fortunately, that's not a big sacrifice ...
Come to think of it, a friend told me just the other day that she avoids the Market, period. Same rationale, but she also finds it too seedy for her tastes, even during the day.
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There was another stabbing early this morning in the market, near a homeless shelter.
The homeless, whose shelters and services are concentrated in and around the market it must be said, seem to be going at each other particularly with knives a lot more, of late.
Though for the most part as you've mentioned the violence in Ottawa is mostly related to the street gang phenomenon. As we've seen they're increasingly brazen and don't really care about where and when if they want to make a "hit".
By Ottawa standards it's getting darn close to being out of control. Of course the nervous nellies and alarmists are all over themselves in social media and comment sections about how Ottawa is becoming "just like Detroit". But they're only a small minority of Ottawans.
Bien-pensant Ottawa, which is the large majority of the citizenry, seems largely unconcerned and even in denial about the downward spiral. (It's quite reminiscent of the mindset in Toronto in recent years, in fact.)
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