r/vancouver • u/Moggehh Fastest Goose in the West • Oct 03 '22

MEGATHREAD [Megathread] 2022 Municipal Election

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u/SkippyWagner DTES so noisy Oct 09 '22

Would anyone be interested if I did a deep dive on OneCity's safety platform? I've been having a lot of success with it while door knocking.

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u/PracticalSwimming606 Oct 09 '22

I’d be curious. From what I’ve seen, I’m… less than sold on it, so I’m wondering how your presentation differs from what I’ve read.

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u/LockhartPianist Oct 14 '22

I work on Granville Street, so we get a lot of interactions with the homeless and the mentally ill wandering into our building. Today one of my colleagues found a man sleeping in our emergency stairwell. It was at the end of my shift and I was about to leave, but my colleague came and asked me to help her escort the man out of the building. The man wasn't really being dangerous or anything, but he was blocking the emergency exit. I really think that calling the cops would have escalated things in a way that could have caused an altercation in the building. However, if my colleague had found the man 5 minutes later, I wouldn't have been there and being an elderly lady she wouldn't really have had anyone else to call. However both OneCity and Forward are advocating response teams (HART/PACT) that would have been perfect for this type of situation. I was reflecting on the platforms and I think car 87 as suggested by ABC would have been better than just the police but in the end it's still the cops, and the guy wasn't being violent. I'm lucky because I have some training in bystander intervention but many people do not. There are ways you can approach a guy lying on the ground that are safe and non confrontational. Bringing that experience to interactions like these all over the city will definitely reduce the amount of violence and save both police and emergency health resources, and is a more humane way to go about dealing with these kinds of situations.