[winni_the_peg]

People say there has been an uptick in crime in the Village, but is there any solid data on that? In my experience crime seems to be going down there. For example I work in a shop in the Village and anecdotally there has been a pretty significant decrease in theft in the store since the police have started doing foot patrols in the area. I was chatting to the cops about this and they said they hear that from a lot of different stores. And the encampment at Fourt Rouge seems to have improved too. It used to be a lot worse there, with the tents up on or near the turf, but now it seems like they've been pushed back further into the bush. It actually seems like the park gets a fair amount of people using it these days, whereas before that didn't seem to be the case.