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“You don’t see that as much along International Ave. They’ve certainly taken on a lot of extra burden just as a result of the added resources and added policing across downtown.” The City of Calgary last week unveiled a number of new actions to target increased crime on the city’s transit line — many focused on downtown — and has been beefing up police and security resources downtown for the better part of a year. The provincial government followed up that announcement with, with officials mostly speaking to ongoing issues in the cores of both cities.
Larry Leach, executive director of the 12 Community Safety Initiative, an organization focused on crime prevention throughout CPS’s District 4, said the displacement of vulnerable and unhoused people to eastern communities — and others abutting the city centre — has been going on for a number of years, but recent downtown-focused actions have compounded the issue.
“If people don’t like public drug use, demand drug-use sites, demand supervised consumption sites that are safe for people to go and use — and they will,” he said. “You’ll reduce public drug use, you’ll reduce needle discard, all that sort of thing, and that will instantly create a bit more perceived public safety.”
“We’re just saying that sometimes if there’s not that holistic approach happening, and no one’s kind of watching what’s happening, that’s when you’re gonna have problems.”
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