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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
Maybe you missed my point?
People (at least partly) elected Sim because they believe he will make Vancouver safer. When people talk about public safety, they are usually referring to violent, and not petty, crimes. Sim may make a dent in petty crimes, but it is hard to see how a municipal government can reduce violent crimes when the perpetrators are not afraid of jail time, are virtually guaranteed parole, and Provincial judges follow Provincial sentencing guidelines. If in four years fewer windows in Chinatown are smashed but we still have "four stranger assaults" per day as Sim claims, will voters think Sim met his campaign promises?
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No, I took your point, and I agree with you. It seems unlikely that more police, or mental health support workers will change things like random attacks by people with a psychosis, and acting aggressively, whatever the cause of that psychosis might be.
I was picking up on your last comment about the state of the city, and was pointing out that the gross behavior has an explanation, and potentially a solution.
I've also thought the best thing the Chinatown and Gastown BIAs could do for graffiti would be to fund a cart with a couple of Mission Possible employees to go around every day, and cover it up with the appropriate colour. Goodbye Graffiti obviously do a more thorough job, but it takes longer and no doubt costs more. With tagging, removing it as soon as it appears is arguably the best way of making it less effective as a way of drawing attention. It's much more difficult to stop it by catching the taggers, which seems to be what ABC think they can do. The taggers might move elsewhere, obviously, so it's not necessarily going to clean up the city, but it might help the areas which have the greatest problem right now.
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