Mayor Ken Sim: 'For pennies per day, we get a fully funded professional police service that can actually proactively address the issues that we have being a big city.'
Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer said Thursday that crime is decreasing in the city and he attributes the drop to good police work and having more officers employed at the department.
Palmer’s assessment of crime in Vancouver was based on statistics for the first three months of this year as compared to the same period in 2023. He also referenced the first quarter of 2022 in his comments. The chief has also previously highlighted the work of psychiatric nurses now working in the VPD’s command centre, where hundreds of mental health-related calls have been diverted from a police response.
'For pennies per day' Sim congratulated Palmer for the decrease in crime while also using arithmetic to articulate the rationale for spending money to hire more officers. This year’s VPD operating budget is $411.7 million, an increase of roughly $32 million, or 8.44 per cent over the 2023 budget. At the same time, Palmer acknowledged in an interview that crime trends are unpredictable and Vancouver will continue to see major incidents that make headlines — homicides, assaults, sexual assaults, robberies and random attacks.“But my point is that the number of those that you're seeing are down significantly in all the major crime categories. I will never say we're going to stop murders, or we're going to stop shootings. It's not going to happen.
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