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Originally Posted by GernB
Is it due to the drug trade we hear so much about? Or due to the high growth rate? Here in southern Alberta there isn't much crime publicized, anything that happens is quickly hushed up. A recent exception has been the apparent attempted nurder in Warner. Rifle or automatic weapon fire on a house in that town. RCMP isn't saying much nor are the residents.
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Except for South Surrey/White Rock, the entire NuWest to Hope corridor on both sides of the river are low income even by BC standards. Poor social services and high Native populations don't help and of course the drug trade is huge.
I wouldn't say the media covers up crime but all news outlets in BC have a tendency to report the news but if it doesn't show things in a positive light it gets little continued coverage. Every media outlook is constantly telling everyone how BC is "the best place on earth" and when the facts don't back it up then they avoid the topic. Just look at the 70 murdered women in Vancouver which got very little press and even less attention from the city, province, or the population in general. That continues to this day with the Downtown Eastside and BC's very high poverty rate.