B.C. city ponders state of emergency to improve downtown safety | Hanomansing Tonight
The city council of Williams Lake, B.C., is considering a curfew from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and escorting people displaying public intoxication or severe mental health issues to the hospital. Mayor Surinderpal Rathor says he hopes this will help the city's reputation and discipline repeat offenders.
Isn't the hospital full? No room for sick folks, how are the people under the influence supposed to fit. There was a push to have tents in the park last year for people to sleep in year round. Wonder what happened to that
They will probably say they have no room and bus them out of town to another facility that will kick them loose after a few days. Make it some other city or towns problem. I have heard rumors which happen each summer, that cities are bussing their vagrants to other towns to clear their problems to somewhere else.
When I lived much further north, we used to get a bus full once a year. They were given cash and told to make a life for themselves. Anyone from a small northern town knows how hard it can be to be a new person, even with a full time job and income.
They were set up to fail.