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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
This is the problem though. Without reporting, it's all anecdotes. How are you going to convince people otherwise?
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It's not hard even with inaccurate stats. I used to have maybe one incident a year that I'd report. I had like 8-10 reportable incidents since the pandemic started. I reported maybe the first 5 post-pandemic without so much as a email response from the VPD system. After those, well it's freaking pointless so I stopped.
You don't need statistics when your windows get rattled by propane explosions, or regularly catch people trying to rob you to know a place is getting worse.
I gave up and moved to Mount Pleasant. Because screw getting robbed, having my car broken into, having my motorcycle get tagged, having people case my house, etc. I had some other changes in my life, but I wasn't about to convince my partner to move into a neighbourhood where she feels unsafe when I felt increasingly unsafe.
You don't need stats to see how screwed up Chinatown and the DTES is getting. It's plainly visible. Just go on streetview, Google added a feature a year-or-two ago where you can go through historical photo sets. It's really obvious when you look at it. Most areas have from about 2007 forwards.