I live on Dundas Street. I see officers drive past open drug use and disorder regularly, not because they don't care, but because arrest often isn't a real solution to what's happening. When I spoke with an officer directly on Dundas Street about this, his answer was blunt: "Where do you want us to put him? You can't just put everybody in jail." That's the real, honest bottleneck — not a lack of will, a lack of somewhere for enforcement to actually lead.
My Plan · Where I Stand
Enforcement Without Somewhere to Go Doesn't Work
Enforcement has to lead somewhere. Without treatment, recovery, housing or another real next step, the same problem often moves down the block.
The answer
Here’s the issue. Here’s my answer. Here’s what I’d do.
Before London adds another enforcement layer, residents deserve a clear answer from the London Police Service Board about the current direction and the results. That is not an attack on individual officers. It is asking the people responsible for policy to explain it publicly.
I’d push for a public London Police Service Board explanation of the current direction and results. And I would keep asking the harder question: where does enforcement lead? Without treatment, recovery, housing and a real next step, the same problem often moves down the block.
Your say
Do you agree, partly agree, or disagree?
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Where to go next.
BISSON13 · Ward 13
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