Public Disorder & the Decline of Vancouver's Livability

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When even rappers from cities on the US west coast see how your city has gone to sh!t:

‘Pretty rough around here’: Hip-hop legend Warren G walks the streets of Vancouver
By Darrian Matassa-Fung & Jordan Armstrong Global News
Posted June 27, 2024

Three popular West Coast hip-hop artists were in Vancouver on Tuesday night for the Cali to Canada Tour.

Snoop Dogg, Dj Quik and Warren G performed at Rogers Arena, filling thousands of seats in the venue.

But before the well-received concert, Warren G posted a video to his Instagram account, talking to the camera while walking in Vancouver’s downtown core.

“It’s a trip … the streets of Vancouver … pretty rough around here. Everywhere ain’t peaches and cream,” he said in the video. “You know being from the States, we think that (there) ain’t (other) places that are rough but it’s rough everywhere. Drugs everywhere, gang s–t everywhere.”

The extent of open drug use and the appearance of violence in the streets was a surprise to the 53-year-old who hails from Long Beach, Calif...

https://globalnews.ca/news/10592169/hip-hop-legend-warren-g-vancouver/