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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
-step up the police presence.
-disperse some offices/services catering to homeless people and those suffering from addictions (particularly the FIVE pharmacies along Dundas that dispense drugs) so that they are not all concentrated downtown.
-consider re-institutionalizing those people with the worst cases of mental illness, and generally up spending on addiction/mental illness treatment
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Agree on all accounts (although I recall you not being too crazy about the recent increase in the police budget).
On your last point, I posted here a while ago that until society decides that the current situation is unacceptable and intolerable and is willing to make changes that might involve constraining some of what some folks would consider human rights or constitutional rights (perhaps with tools such as the notwithstanding clause) nothing will change anywhere. Extremely hard and addictive drugs that are easily and cheaply manufactured locally is now a permanent thing, and will never go away. That secret can't be unlearned: the genie is out of the bottle and you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. As such, new and potentially radical rules, laws, and practices will have to be instituted to counter this new phenomenon, or the downtowns in most cities will be perpetually crippled with this menace.
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