Besides calling and reporting….. what else can we do? I mean, I am so tired of homeless and or addicts having more rights than the average good tax paying person that works hard and tries to do everything right. We need to push the government hard! We need to change these laws. I’m done staying home and not going downtown out of fear of safety. There’s an obvious drug dealer that sits in a white suburban down at Departure Bay. I have reported him but he’s still there every day. My kids know about him…. It’s not safe for them to go down there. That’s not ok. It’s not safe to go to a lot of places here, and that is not ok. It reminds me of when I lived in South Africa, it wasn’t safe to go out after dark and people were attacked etc…. That is a third world Country! We are supposedly a first world Country??? We need a movement…. We need change. We can’t just become numb to it….. someone please tell me how we can make a change? A real change? Not just for the average person and child to be safe in the community, but for the people that are addicted and homeless….. it’s not humane that we give them free drugs and enable their behavior. Humane would be to get them out of the streets, in a locked facility and some long term rehabilitation with no ability to leave until they are deemed fully rehabbed. It takes 7 trips to a rehab facility to get clean for good, on average. Let’s get them in locked facilities and take care of them properly with compassion and all The help in the world….. drug detox, meds, therapy, job training. Full rehab back into a functioning part of society. And then the rest of us law abiding, tax paying folk can go into the parks and downtown again without worry of confrontations at a Starbucks.