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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Crime in Moncton is pretty much entirely related to drug use and the natural associations with homelessness, vagrancy, prostitution, petty theft and robbery.
The actual rate of crime may not be worse than before, but homelessness, vagrancy and panhandling is much more obvious in the downtown core than it used to be, and this has an effect on the popular perception of an otherwise gentrifying portion of the city. Whether or not people are actually unsafe in the core, seeing so many disheveled men wandering the streets and asking for spare change certainly has an effect on the perception of the safety of the downtown. Between this perception, and the COVID pandemic, downtown businesses are certainly suffering.
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Downtowns are fucked. You allow this shit to happen legally there's no stopping it. Covid has forced me to give up on Urbanism, but it was already dying in my heart 24 months ago.
People can't have it both ways, yes these people aren't choosing to be this way, but that also means these people don't have self control.
Until people wise up and realize rational reasoned measures need to be taken before these people bring everyone else and themselves into the gutter, we're in trouble.
I"ve been around the drug game in London(through work) and it is just odd how people can't see the decline from functioning drug addict to cardboard boxes. If you allow the gateway to exist so visibly people will take it.
If you have a weak will social coercion is one of the things keeping you afloat.