Public Disorder & the Decline of Vancouver's Livability

[jollyburger]

Attack in the DTES Annex

Two people bear-sprayed in downtown Vancouver

Two people were bear-sprayed in downtown Vancouver Friday, police say.

The VPD says it happened in the area of Burrard and Smithe streets around 8 a.m.

Police believe the assault was unprovoked, and the victims didn’t know those responsible.

The VPD says the two suspects then entered a nearby grocery store and barricaded themselves inside the washroom.

Police closed the store while a VPD crisis negotiator worked to resolve the incident.

The suspects surrendered to police and were taken into custody two hours later.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/1...own-vancouver/

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Attack in the DTES Annex

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/1...own-vancouver/

... at the OTHER downtown IGA.

[jollyburger]

Few weeks ago Howe/Drake.

'Absolutely crazy': Vancouver butcher shop broken into twice in a week

The owner of a Vancouver butcher shop is calling on the city to take action after falling victim to two break-ins in the span of just a week.

Property crime is an issue many businesses are facing, particularly in the downtown core, and has become a central issue in this year's municipal election.

The most recent break-in at Sebastian & Co Fine Meats, located on Howe Street near Drake Street, took place early Monday morning.

“Just after one week of the shop being broken into, this happened again,” owner Sebastian Cortez said in an Instagram video, while standing in front of the shattered glass doors of his business.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/absolutely-cra...week-1.6104106

[officedweller]

They need to install roll shutters.
Time and Gold on Georgia has had a roll shutter for many years.
I also noticed that the new Gucci at the Hotel Vancouver has a security roll grate inside their display windows,
as does the new Hermes store at Georgia & Burrard.
That doesn't help random window breakage though.

[Zepfancouver]

I would think that the insurance companies would mandate roll shutters in certain neighborhoods to be insured or they already do that.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Cop killer looks like yet another failure of catch-and-release.

[I]Suspect charged with first-degree murder in stabbing death of Burnaby RCMP officer
By Amy Judd Global News
Posted October 19, 2022

https://globalnews.ca/news/9211482/s...ce=%40globalbc

There's more to it than that... Man accused of killing Burnaby RCMP officer was filmmaker with roots in Toronto

The man accused of fatally stabbing Burnaby RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker with recent roots in Toronto, Global News has learned.

Jongwon Ham is charged with first-degree murder in the killing, which happened Tuesday as Yang accompanied a Burnaby parks worker to tell him he could no longer tent in a local park.

Global News has learned that Ham was an accomplished director, cinematographer and editor, with television and documentary credits. In 2013 he won an audience choice award for his part in a short film in the Arirang Korea Smartphone Film Festival, and 2014 he worked on an Emmy-winning travel and food documentary.

In Ontario, the now-37-year-old studied media fundamentals at at Sheridan College in 2005-2006 and television and new media at Loyalist College between 2006 and 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile.

So how did Ham go from a budding career as a filmmaker in Ontario to a tent in a Burnaby park?

...

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Sheba

There's more to it than that... Man accused of killing Burnaby RCMP officer was filmmaker with roots in Toronto

Some people were saying he was connected with the killing on Twitter right after the murder but I just assumed it was a random stranger.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Vin

DTES spill-over for sure. We can't contain this in Vancouver's rotten core and things are starting to spill outwards. The death of the Burnaby RCMP should be on the conscience of those that allow DTES and all the associated problems to exist in the first place. It has gotten out of hand.

So the man who has been charged lived at Knight and Kingsway until January 2021, when his paranoid behaviour as a result of mental illness meant he became homeless, and he's been living in Burnaby in a tent since then. Not a drug user, not from the DTES. Again, you have jumped to a wrong conclusion based on your faulty narrative.

This tragic case shows the inadequacy of the mental health services available for people like this, and it makes the imminent release of the report on prolific offenders and mental health even more important. A couple of months ago, David Eby said “Simply because we are compassionate, concerned and taking action on mental health and addiction issues does not mean that we have to accept criminal behaviour, vandalism or violence in our communities.” He reiterated that today, saying he intends to propose actions to stop repeat offenders cycling in and out of the justice system by addressing issues of mental health, homelessness and addiction in his first 100 days as premier.

[jollyburger]

Downtown Vancouver BIA offers funding for businesses hit with vandalism
The grant hopes to help businesses weather the financial burden of replacing doors, windows and storefront damaged by vandalism and criminal activity.

Sheryl Matthew dreads getting a 2:30 a.m. phone call, which usually means yet another broken window at one of her Vancouver coffee shops and another whopping repair bill.

Article content
As downtown Vancouver businesses report worsening levels of property crime in recent months, Matthew’s two locations — Finch’s Tea and Coffee House on Pender Street and FInch’s Market in nearby Strathcona — haven’t been spared.

Three weeks ago, someone broke a large 5×7′ window at Finch’s downtown, costing Matthew $1,300 to fix, equivalent to a couple weeks’ profit in today’s post-pandemic, inflation-battered business environment, she said.

“There was also just huge glass, broken and hanging, and dangerous,” she said. “We had to shut down and lost a day’s business.”

Two weeks before that, someone threw an apple through the store’s front door so hard shards of glass were found on the opposite side of the room.

A new program launching Monday hopes to help businesses like Matthew’s struggling with mounting repair bills for damaged doors, shattered windows and vandalized storefronts.

The Downtown Van storefront security grant is meant to ease some of the financial costs incurred by businesses due to criminal activity that resulted in damages to storefronts, windows and doors.

“We want to ensure that the ongoing damage caused by prolific offenders does not deter new and existing business owners from operating in the downtown core,” said the business improvement association’s president and CEO Nolan Marshall III. “Our mission remains the same, to keep Downtown Van a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for all.”

The grant also applies to implementing security improvements, such as anti-graffiti coating, security cameras, shutters and gates.

The organization will match up to 50 per cent of the cost, to a maximum of $5,000, to repair and restore the damages.

Any street-level businesses in downtown Vancouver is eligible.

Applications can be submitted starting Monday until Feb. 28, 2023 or until funding runs out. Applications will be reviewed on a first-come first-serve basis.

https://vancouversun.com/news/downto...sses-vandalism

Edit: It's a 150K fund...

[whatnext]

Nice, the Yaletown OPS near the kids playground at Emery Barnes Park. Maybe they need a community police station right there!

Sofi Jayee
@JayeeSofi
Oct 21
Today next to the Yaletown OPS is a man with his pants down, fully exposed. This is across the street from a children’s playground. You can hear someone yelling at him that there are children around. This OPS is a disaster.

https://twitter.com/JayeeSofi/status...11514707382273

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Changing City

So the man who has been charged lived at Knight and Kingsway until January 2021, when his paranoid behaviour as a result of mental illness meant he became homeless, and he's been living in Burnaby in a tent since then. Not a drug user, not from the DTES. Again, you have jumped to a wrong conclusion based on your faulty narrative.

This tragic case shows the inadequacy of the mental health services available for people like this, and it makes the imminent release of the report on prolific offenders and mental health even more important. A couple of months ago, David Eby said “Simply because we are compassionate, concerned and taking action on mental health and addiction issues does not mean that we have to accept criminal behaviour, vandalism or violence in our communities.” He reiterated that today, saying he intends to propose actions to stop repeat offenders cycling in and out of the justice system by addressing issues of mental health, homelessness and addiction in his first 100 days as premier.

I am not surprised that you buy this fake compassion from the NDP government. It is exactly this that caused the RCMP officer's death in the first place.

The murderer wasn't a drug dealer but he was a user. In fact, the police officer was trying to revive him when he awoke and stabbed her. With a warrant for arrest from previous charges, the man should've been apprehended and held in custody long ago. Perhaps even a forced treatment could've prevented this situation.

A spillover from the DTES doesn't necessary mean that the perpetrator has to be born and raised, received street thug education, lived in a DTES SRO, and become homeless in the DTES. It simply means a failed system creating the DTES is now also affecting other less lawless communities. In this case, this became fatal.

However, just to destroy your thirst for proving me wrong: this guy did get charged in Vancouver walloping someone's face in Chinatown before. He is a DTES criminal and drug user. From March till now, Ham should have been in police custody. Instead, he was sleeping in a park.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Vin

I am not surprised that you buy this fake compassion from the NDP government. It is exactly this that caused the RCMP officer's death in the first place.

The murderer wasn't a drug dealer but he was a user. In fact, the police officer was trying to revive him when he awoke and stabbed her. With a warrant for arrest from previous charges, the man should've been apprehended and held in custody long ago. Perhaps even a forced treatment could've prevented this situation.

A spillover from the DTES doesn't necessary mean that the perpetrator has to be born and raised, received street thug education, lived in a DTES SRO, and become homeless in the DTES. It simply means a failed system creating the DTES is now also affecting other less lawless communities. In this case, this became fatal.

However, just to destroy your thirst for proving me wrong: this guy did get charged in Vancouver walloping someone's face in Chinatown before. He is a DTES criminal and drug user. From March till now, Ham should have been in police custody. Instead, he was sleeping in a park.

I'm not surprised you think compassion is faked - you seem to have a profound deficit in that department. You also seem to have details about the incident that I haven't seen published. Can you share a link?

[FarmerHaight]

Originally Posted by Vin

A spillover from the DTES doesn't necessary mean that the perpetrator has to be born and raised, received street thug education, lived in a DTES SRO, and become homeless in the DTES. It simply means a failed system creating the DTES is now also affecting other less lawless communities. In this case, this became fatal.

He is a DTES criminal and drug user.

Wait, someone doesn't even have to live in the DTES to be a DTES criminal?

In that case, left-wing Vancouverites should brand all criminals in Canada as Tijuana criminals or Caracas criminals or Detroit criminals or, better yet, blame them all on some conservative city like Red Deer or Swift Current. Now all crime in Vancouver is someone else's problem and we can actually defund the police!

The unbelievable pretzels you twist yourself into to pin all crime, all unaffordability, all mental illness, and all of life's other unpleasantness on Vancouver's former leadership and city staff is unbelievable. I wonder, how long is the grace period for Sim before all the problems become his fault? Or is Vancouver doomed to subsist because of Stewart's term forever?

[jollyburger]

Repeat customer

Convicted Alberta killer accused of smashing Vancouver bank windows for 2nd time

A convicted killer from Edmonton accused of doing thousands of dollars of damage to a Vancouver bank last month is back in custody, after allegedly smashing nearly two dozen windows at the same financial institution.

Curtis George McCallum, 47, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2006 killing of his aunt, was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly smashing an estimated 20 window panes at the TD bank branch at Hastings and Abbott streets.

Witness Scott Taylor told Global News he was coming out of the Nester’s Market when he saw the incident happen.

“All of a sudden, a guy comes out, two bricks in each hand, just wings them at the window, smashes them — it sounds like a gunshot going off,” he told Global News.

“It was startling and initially I thought he’s robbing the bank … then when he got through the window, he picked up the rocks again and did it again.”

Taylor said he didn’t know what to do in the situation. He said he told the man to stop, but decided against physically intervening and opted to film the incident instead, so that there would be evidence.

“He proceeded to smash every window along the side,” he said.

“It was very upsetting, I was pretty angry about the whole thing, but also depressed. What do you do about this? We see so many of these things happen all the time — and to see this happen in Gastown, it’s already a place that’s under stress, it has problems and this doesn’t help.”

Each windowpane at the branch is worth an estimated $10,000. Police responded and arrested him at the scene.

It is the second time in as many months McCallum is accused of smashing windows at the bank branch.

On Sept. 12, he was arrested after allegedly using a brick to smash multiple, causing nearly $70,000 in damage.

McCallum was charged with mischief to property over $5,000 in that incident.

Vancouver police say he has now been charged with a second count of the same offence, and that he remains in custody pending a Friday court appearance.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9214555/v...smashed-again/

His court appearance got pushed to next week so he spent the weekend in jail.



Sentenced February 2009 for manslaughter and attempted murder and with time served got out on parole March 2012.

[logan5]

The authorities have to start laying down the law in a more forceful manner. The area of the TD branch is a functional area with lots of businesses, as are other areas where out of control people are mindlessly damaging property. Businesses are going start moving out, and we will have a much bigger ghetto.

[Zepfancouver]

Repeat customer...

Not all life is precious, when we have a mischief problem bear, dog (and those mischief are under $5000) or group of animals like wolfs we put them down or have a cull, just saying.
(and don't say we can't do that because we're not animals...We are animals, unfortunately the stupid kind)

[hollywoodnorth]

Window-smashing suspect out on bail

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2549241



LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLZ

I hope he does it again! hell I hope he does it 500 more times. Thank you little Johnnie Whoreagain!

[Migrant_Coconut]

1) jollyburger beat you to it.

2) Looks like somebody's got anger issues, and I don't mean the homeless guy.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

Window-smashing suspect out on bail

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2549241



LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLZ

I hope he does it again! hell I hope he does it 500 more times. Thank you little Johnnie Whoreagain!

Or he may murder someone in the process......

If people know what they know about this man's release from custody, I wonder if they will still feel safe hanging out in that neighbourhood, and even Gastown or Chinatown this weekend.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by FarmerHaight

Wait, someone doesn't even have to live in the DTES to be a DTES criminal if he commits a crime there?

In that case, left-wing Vancouverites should brand all criminals in Canada as Tijuana criminals or Caracas criminals or Detroit criminals or, better yet, blame them all on some conservative city like Red Deer or Swift Current. Now all crime in Vancouver is someone else's problem and we can actually defund the police!

The unbelievable pretzels you twist yourself into to pin all crime, all unaffordability, all mental illness, and all of life's other unpleasantness on Vancouver's former leadership and city staff is unbelievable. I wonder, how long is the grace period for Sim before all the problems become his fault? Or is Vancouver doomed to subsist because of Stewart's term forever?

Yeah! (Sentence corrected for you)