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Originally Posted by Vin
As for you to bring in the stats showing the percentage of homeless Aboriginals, that seems moot. Remember we are talking about homeless addicts and those really screwed up in the head: people who are contributing to Vancouver's street problems. Like I said before, most of the downtown and DTES street criminals I have seen in the news are not even indigenous folks.
Here's one more example:
Video shows unsolved stranger attack on New Year's Eve in Vancouver
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video-shows-unsolved-stranger-attack-on-new-year-s-eve-in-vancouver-1.5746299
This guy must be crazed from substance abuse. We are seeing this way too often these days. I'm sure this scum of the society isn't a product of "residential schools", is he? |
Of the 39% homeless who are indigenous, a significant proportion do suffer from mental health issues, and a significant proportion are addicted. So they will be some of the 'DTES street criminals' you identify. Many more of that group aren't homeless - they're housed, but spend much of their life on the streets. They too have a significant proportion with mental health issues and/or addicted. The legacy of Residential Schools and enforced foster care are significant factors in the levels of abuse experienced by people who attended those institutions, and their children (as many of their their parents had no experience of positive parenting to emulate).
Finding one example of someone carrying out a random attack who isn't indigenous doesn't make your point. Nobody said 100% of street crime is carried out by indigenous people. (Or by people from the DTES - although you seem to think that's the case). Indeed, unless there are images, like this, you wouldn't even be able to tell if they were indigenous, as these days press reports generally don't draw attention to that aspect of people involved in crime, unless it's because the police are actively seeking someone for who that detail is important.
I don't know if the attacker you identified is 'crazed from substance abuse'. He could be suffering from a psychosis, which may be drug-related or may be from schizophrenia or some other brain illness or injury. Obviously some people who act like this are on drugs - but not all of them. That's why VPD have a dedicated mental health car (Car 87) to deal with situations like this - although it isn't always deployed when it's needed.
He might also have been drunk. That was apparently the case with
the man acting violently who was
shot and killed by the VPD last year. His was one of four 'police involved deaths' last year. (The pictures of him suggested he might be indigenous - but he was apparently Filipino - see comment below).
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