Comments on: The Homeless and East Hastings… http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver “Where Just Being 'Right' Is Wrong" Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jess Parthew http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-16633 Jess Parthew Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:19:26 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-16633 I am glad you have said this, it needed to be said. I also understand how Goldam feels but there response is precisely what keeps the downtown east side in a constant spiral, their catch phrasing and uneccessarily complicated feelings need to be simplified to get results. Making the people on the street understand what they are doing is wrong not only for them but for us too should not be interpreted as treating them as "people you dislike". The police in Vancouver do not try hard enough. The people on the street need structure in their lives! Instead of giving it to them we let them do whatever they want supporting their drug habits and even lowering the speed limit to 30 kilometers an hour so they will not get run over while jay walking. If we don't lay out just even basic rules they need to abide by they will just keep sinking as far as we let them. Shame on the VPD, Gregor Robertson and all the previous elected before him, and let's not forget the dirt lot on East Hastings where the City put up a chain link fence covered with orange tarping and a sign that said something like "Vancouver Initiative for the Homeless" during the Winter Olympics so the drug addicts could not be seen by the tourists, is that not "covering up their tracks" in a cowardly and ignorant way? I am glad you have said this, it needed to be said. I also understand how Goldam feels but there response is precisely what keeps the downtown east side in a constant spiral, their catch phrasing and uneccessarily complicated feelings need to be simplified to get results. Making the people on the street understand what they are doing is wrong not only for them but for us too should not be interpreted as treating them as “people you dislike”. The police in Vancouver do not try hard enough. The people on the street need structure in their lives! Instead of giving it to them we let them do whatever they want supporting their drug habits and even lowering the speed limit to 30 kilometers an hour so they will not get run over while jay walking. If we don’t lay out just even basic rules they need to abide by they will just keep sinking as far as we let them. Shame on the VPD, Gregor Robertson and all the previous elected before him, and let’s not forget the dirt lot on East Hastings where the City put up a chain link fence covered with orange tarping and a sign that said something like “Vancouver Initiative for the Homeless” during the Winter Olympics so the drug addicts could not be seen by the tourists, is that not “covering up their tracks” in a cowardly and ignorant way?

]]> By: Goldam http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-12860 Goldam Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:02:34 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-12860 It's more than just an issue of policing, it's a social issue. They've tried what you've described, but anybody with any knowledge in the area knows that placing these people in jail not only costs taxpayers a lot of money, it also rarely changes anything at all. It's a social issue, and in order to "clean the area" you need a coalition of policing AND social structures to help solve the problem. Simply placing people in jail and covering up their tracks is a cowardly and ignorant way of going about it. I don't really have much more to say, I agree that Hastings is an issue, I think you should do some volunteer work or gain some first hand experience before you lose your touch with human connection and just start to refer to people you dislike as a "problem that needs to be dealt with". It’s more than just an issue of policing, it’s a social issue. They’ve tried what you’ve described, but anybody with any knowledge in the area knows that placing these people in jail not only costs taxpayers a lot of money, it also rarely changes anything at all.

It’s a social issue, and in order to “clean the area” you need a coalition of policing AND social structures to help solve the problem. Simply placing people in jail and covering up their tracks is a cowardly and ignorant way of going about it.

I don’t really have much more to say, I agree that Hastings is an issue, I think you should do some volunteer work or gain some first hand experience before you lose your touch with human connection and just start to refer to people you dislike as a “problem that needs to be dealt with”.

]]> By: Marilyn Fitch http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-12232 Marilyn Fitch Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:56:34 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-12232 hey uh im doing a report on east hastings and that place is the true shit hold of vancouver something needs to be done to help now.. if we dont take action things will gt worse my sister lives there and says its disgusting to have to pass by thre andsee all those whores and drug addicts get your shit togther VAN! hey uh im doing a report on east hastings and that place is the true shit hold of vancouver something needs to be done to help now.. if we dont take action things will gt worse my sister lives there and says its disgusting to have to pass by thre andsee all those whores and drug addicts get your shit togther VAN!

]]> By: Van(dé)couver | Un voyage au Yukon (et ailleurs !) http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-6498 Van(dé)couver | Un voyage au Yukon (et ailleurs !) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:05:06 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-6498 [...] Secrets of Vancouver [...] [...] Secrets of Vancouver [...]

]]> By: Kidd Jay http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-4534 Kidd Jay Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:06:42 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-4534 hey people i have been there done that lived that life. i was a well respected dealer at one time in my life. When i was Addicted to ( Crack & Heroin ) i was shot once stabbed 5 time and put in I.C.U 3 time .. Anyways i have been clean for 2 years now and im doing great for my self hey people i have been there done that lived that life. i was a well respected dealer at one time in my life. When i was Addicted to ( Crack & Heroin ) i was shot once stabbed 5 time and put in I.C.U 3 time .. Anyways i have been clean for 2 years now and im doing great for my self

]]> By: jb http://thesecretsofvancouver.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-need/all-about-vancouver/comment-page-1#comment-48 jb Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:25:12 +0000 http://vancouversecrets.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-48 Thanks for the post - it caught my attention immediately as I drive by the same thing everyday on my way to gastown. I agree about Rudy's work to clean up NYC! When I went there I was so impressed at what a clean city it is. Let's get on it Van. Thanks for the post – it caught my attention immediately as I drive by the same thing everyday on my way to gastown. I agree about Rudy’s work to clean up NYC! When I went there I was so impressed at what a clean city it is. Let’s get on it Van.

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