Pubdate: Tue, 07 Jul 2009
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc.
Contact: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/letters.html
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476

DID YOU KNOW . . .

That Downtown Eastside Drug Arrests Are Declining?

A 2006 City of Vancouver report on the Downtown Eastside showed that, 
contrary to popular belief, drug arrests in the area were actually on 
the wane -- and on the rise in other parts of Vancouver. In 1997, 
there were 1,153 arrests in the Downtown Eastside -- 75 per cent of 
the city's 1,533 drug arrests. But in 2002, there were 1,782 Downtown 
Eastside arrests, just 36 per cent of the city's 4,883 arrests.
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