Looks like Vancouver's badasses are taking the month off. Figures released by the Vancouver Police show crime is down dramatically since the Games started.
EMAIL
| PRINT
| REPORT TYPO
| SEND YOUR FEEDBACK
|
Vancouver crime drops during Olympics
- February 19, 2010 5:15 PM |
- By Noah Love
Story provided by
By Mary Vallis, National Post
Looks like Vancouver's badasses are taking the month off. Figures released by the Vancouver Police show crime is down dramatically since the Games started.
The latest figures show property crime is down nearly 40%; theft from vehicles are down nearly 60% and violent crime is down 23%. So what accounts for the trend? Sure, it could be the 7,000 extra officers patrolling the streets of the Olympic city. Or it could be that the criminals are all at home, glued to the television as they watch those wacky Norwegians in their awesome curling pants.
Perhaps all those Olympics are too occupied with their current obsession to do much else. All those arrests in the streets may be keeping them from their usual shenanigans.
As News 1130 notes: "The next concern is an increase in drunken fans on the streets as the Olympic hockey tournament really gets going."
If that's the worst of Vancouver's problems, maybe we should consider hosting the Olympics in the rest of Canada all of the time -- fewer purse snatchings and fights in the streets. Bring on the ice dancing and dinging cowbells.
About the Author
- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
Recent Entries
- To Iginla, Crosby's call sounded like gold
- "Iggy!" It's a scream Jarome Iginla has heard many times in his career. But never this loudly, never with so much urgency.... Continue reading this post
- Olympic Memories: Heartbreak and triumph
- For all the moments that made you so damned happy you wanted to cry -- the triumph of Alex Bilodeau and his brother Frederic, the delirium of Marianne St-Gelais as she watched her boyfriend Charles Hamelin win gold, the pure... Continue reading this post
- Olympic Memories: The strength of a lion
- It happened in a blink. A skier was skittering down a steep and icy slope at Whistler Olympic Park and disappeared into the woods.... Continue reading this post
