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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

Silence&Motion said:
This is blatantly false. The issue is not that society's too full of bleeding heart liberals. The police are constantly harassing homeless people. The UCP doesn't seem to have any qualms about villainizing the homeless. .
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I would say the opposite. Police harassment on homeless is low. Yeah, the police harass them from time to time but only when people complain about them loitering in front of their business or they're a public area with no loitering.
I mean, what else are they going to do? Decide not harass them and let downtown turn into a disaster? (compared to what people think it is today).
 
Come to Texas if you want to see police harassing homeless and addicts. In Dallas, the police will immediately seize and destroy drugs and paraphernalia from anyone consuming in public. I've seen the cops force meth heads to stomp on their pipes and pick up the pieces. The police do not tolerate any tents pitched in public spaces and will request them to be dismantled before calling in a team to dismantle them. I also saw a homeless person cuffed and thrown into a paddy wagon for deficating on the sidewalk.

The approach seems to work.
 
outoftheice said:
Timely to the conversation and actually fits with the Urban Development Proposal thread.... the folks in Royal Oak are getting some new neighbours!

calgaryherald.com

Mandatory drug treatment centre to be built adjacent to Royal Oak area

One of Alberta's two compassionate intervention centres will be built adjacent to the Royal Oak area and the remand centre.
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Locating near existing correctional and and mental health facilities should be about as non-controversial as possible. The Spy Hill correctional facility pre-dates all of the area's residential development
 
Random skyline shots - from Crescent Heights:
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