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Originally Posted by Changing City
Comparing the reality of one society to another 7,500 km away is hardly relevant, and doesn't help either. Would you leave your car running and unlocked with all your work items inside as you stop into a convenience store in Vancouver? Or Burnaby? Or Surrey?
Whatnext loves to find a negative incident, or someone complaining there were too many people driving round Stanley Park on the first sunny weekend in ages, or a store closing, or an article that shows something wrong with the city, and just leave it there. They troll this site across multiple threads, constantly.
Currently VPD stats show around 650 incidents of 'theft from vehicle' each week across the whole of the city. It's just over half the 1,200 incidents in a typical week in 2019. Part of the problem is that nobody ever tweets "I parked my car in the Olympic Village and nobody broke into it". |
Umm, the comparisons are relevant because such comparisons help judge wether or not the current condition is acceptable or not? Why judge Vancouver’s biking infrastructure to cities thousands of KM away in Europe? Why judge the rate of mass shootings in the US to other western nations?
The thing is someone in Burnaby should be able to trust the safety of their car and the belongings in it when they park / stop somewhere in a healthy society.
Yes, there are some on here who obsess with posting negativity, but the response to that should not be apathy for Vancouver’s criminal behavior and other social problems.
I don’t get this attitude where people don’t want things to be better (things can’t get better unless you are willing to admit that there is a problem).
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