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CityView: Vancouverâ€™s Gangsters Overrated? | BC Vote — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:09:27 +0000

[...] bit from Raincoaster, who notes that if you don’t want to get shot, you really ought to spend more time in the [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:00:18 +0000

Well, of course; the reason you see so many mentally ill people on the street is, as I said in the comment right above you, that the government removed the supports that were there to ensure such people didn’t end up there.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:35:22 +0000

What a bunch of nonsense. 99.99999% of the region is safer than anywhere on Earth. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t engage in criminal, illegal behaviour.

The DTES is still a disgrace. 50 years ago the citizens would not have put up with the now “acceptable” displays of mental illness and debauchery that goes on there.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:28:14 +0000

Oh, I’m completely with you. It was the government that decided to close the hospitals, saying they’d be “better off with proper, community-based care” which they then failed to provide. I’m not suggesting locking up people for being mentally ill.

I’m suggesting a creative application of existing statutes, much as RICO was repurposed in the Eighties and used quite successfully against the Mafia in New York.

By: fracas

fracas — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:24:40 +0000

Actually raincoaster, it’s not that easy to lock people up for mental illnesses anymore. Well, at least not in Fracskatchewan anyway… which doesn’t help you much there… or here for that matter.

It takes quite a bit to have someone certified, in more cases than not, the mentally ill are walking the streets when they shouldn’t be. Don’t even get me started…