DTESTruthteller

Telling the truth about the Downtown East Side of Vancovuer

[Lt (Retired LAPD) Frank Columbo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @jsam10983741]

Vancouver can thank politicians who built their careers on the DTES and Poverty Pimp Complex. And those politicians who enabled drug use. Blame politicians practicing liberalism and not pushing to enforce laws. Blame politicians who turned a blind eye.

[DrewCouver @DrewCouver56]

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Just 200 yards from a free outdoor concert where thousands danced in the streets, I counted 14 homeless people sleeping on concrete benches.
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This may be the most heartfelt message I've ever recorded about homelessness, addiction, immigration, and the direction of Canada.
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@CanadianPM @PierrePoilievre @ABDanielleSmith @KerryLynneFindl @somerspsych

[@SaveOurCityVan @saveourcityvan]

@VanCityVice That’s a lot of emergency responders for one person who has done this to themselves, kids, say NO to drugs.

[604 Now | Vancouver @604Now]

Destination Vancouver says visitors are increasingly raising concerns about street disorder, open drug use, aggressive behaviour, and personal safety downtown. The comments come as B.C.’s Look West strategy aims to double visitor spending to $48B by 2036.

[Jon. @JohnnyUtahVan]

@bobmackin Bob, do you think the previous OPS location in Yaletown was a success? 😂
https://t.co/vUzpgu28lF

[Vancity Vice @VanCityVice]

Meanwhile at Joyce Skytrain Station Vancouver, BC

[Syntheticus Humanitus @TheChaosWeeber]

I’ll vote for anyone who successfully cleans up Vancouver and stops addicts an drug use from ruining the streets

I have zero tolerance for public open drug use. My empathy for the street mentally ill and drug addicted has expired

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

People who claim that “safer supply” diversion was exaggerated are ignorant on this issue.

Safer supply supporters — including the BC NDP and federal Liberals — refused to track SS diversion, and then pretended that the consequent absence of data showed that there was no problem.

That’s why I harassed several police departments in Ontario and got some of them to disclose that annual hydromorphone seizures had exploded since 2020 (when SS access was expanded). There was a 3,000%~ increase in London, ON, a 1,500%~ increase in Niagara region, and a 1,000%~ increase in Waterloo.

The London Police then gave a press conference explicitly tying the explosion in hydromorphone diversion to safer supply.

[Steve Kooner MLA @SteveKooner]

Tourists visiting Vancouver are shocked.

They come from normal cities without radical pro-drug experiments, and they are shocked and appalled by what they see on our streets here.

The NDP have turned Vancouver, the most beautiful city in the world, into a national embarrassment.

Tourists are openly sharing their disappointment after witnessing open drug use, street disorder, and feeling unsafe in areas that should showcase the best of British Columbia.

This is gross incompetence on full display. Under the NDP, everything related to public safety is suffering.

We need real solutions now. Expanded compassionate involuntary care for those trapped in addiction and severe mental health crises. A justice system that actually holds offenders accountable. And strong, well-supported police forces empowered to restore order.

We need to clean up this NDP-created mess and make our cities safe.

[Leigh Clarke🍎🍏 @LeighCl68689106]

@iamkennethchan @nobody_handmaid Look out Vancouver. The downtown eastside will get cleaned out after the next election!

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

I just filmed this overdose reversal on the streets of Seattle.
Another day, another life saved by Narcan because our streets have become open-air emergency rooms. Washington has one of the highest overdose death rates in the entire country, yet our politicians stay silent.
They’d rather talk about housing affordability than face the truth: the drug crisis is destroying lives and overwhelming our first responders every single day. No end in sight.
Why isn’t this the headline? When will leaders speak out? @SeattleCouncil @MayorofSeattle @ExecZahilay Thank you @SeattlePD @SeattleFire

[Dr. Julian Somers @somerspsych]

True for all of BC ⬇️

“We are not opposed to helping people in crisis. We are opposed to policies imposed from above with no accountability, no community input, and no honest reckoning with the consequences.

Vancouver deserves better. We are standing up”

https://t.co/YnZh65Jde4

[Vancouver Police @VancouverPD]

#VPD Sergeant Steve Addison leads a team in District 5. Follow him on foot patrol as he showcases some of the weapons seized in a single shift in the Downtown Eastside. The VPD is dedicated to making the community safer for residents, business owners, and visitors.

[Steve Kooner MLA @SteveKooner]

A clear victory for Vancouver residents near 900 Helmcken Street. The proposed "overdose prevention" site at that location, across from the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre and one block from St. Paul’s Hospital, will not proceed at this time after strong local opposition from residents, businesses, and city council.

Congratulations to everyone who stood up and successfully fought for this cancellation.

If this neighbourhood can stop the facility from moving forward, then why should any other neighbourhood be forced to accept one?

Every future site must be met with the same strong, united opposition until the NDP finally starts listening to the communities they claim to serve.

[Dr. Julian Somers @somerspsych]

Grade: F

Comment: Jim, please demonstrate original thought rather than relying on AI, and include an explanation for why deaths and public disorder soared as British Columbia’s CSs rose from 1 to 58, and why residents near CSs around the world are outraged by surges in medical emergencies and crime while academic advocates insist that the opposite is true

[Dr. Julian Somers @somerspsych]

BC opened 58 Consumption Sites, decriminalized drugs and gave Pharmaceuticals to people living in poverty (“Safe Supply”)

The fact that the Govt is FINALLY responding to public outcry is no victory. Rather, it’s the first sign that leaders are willing to apply “harm reduction” to their own noxious policies

The question is: Will they introduce effective policies instead?

Opening of Vancouver overdose prevention site halted by province https://t.co/WxmbohltYx

[@SaveOurCityVan @saveourcityvan]

Opinion: Enough is enough — It's time for Vancouver to push back on OPS decisions. https://t.co/cAcQiAgQzO

[Jarryd Jäger @JarrydJaeger]

Health Minister @Josie_Osborne has announced that the new downtown Vancouver overdose prevention planned for 900 Helmcken St. “will not proceed.”

The move comes following weeks of backlash from Mayor Sim, ABC councillors, and locals.

An alternate site has not been revealed.

[Daily Hive Vancouver @DailyHiveVan]

Vancouver health authority puts brakes on controversial overdose prevention site
https://t.co/YReKuLMg4X

[Trevor Ford @Trev_Ford_North]

Sometimes a bad idea is just a bad idea.

Treatment and recovery should be the priority, not failed policies that destroy neighbourhoods.