Mayor Ken Sim announces a new task force, Task Force Barrage, aimed at tackling organized crime and violence in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. The task force will involve police, fire, bylaw officers, sanitation crews, and engineering teams to improve public safety and address the root causes of the crisis.
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is in the grip of a “humanitarian crisis” of crime and violence that has reached a tipping point, Mayor Ken Sim said as he unveiled a taskforce to tackle organized crime.
Sim said the status quo isn’t working in the neighbourhood, and criminal gangs, drug traffickers and repeat offenders are preying on the most vulnerable who live there. He said there would be three core strategies: deploying officers on the streets, launching more complex investigations to target crime, and enhancing community partnerships to improve public safety.
Palmer pointed to a measure called the crime severity index, which Statistics Canada says reflects crime levels weighted to their seriousness. The mayor had unveiled a plan last month to revitalize the Downtown Eastside, which included a freeze on construction of new supportive housing units in Vancouver in favour of fixing the current aging housing units in the area.
ORGANIZED CRIME PUBLIC SAFETY DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS TASK FORCE
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