Crime and Dumpsters: A Connection?
According to the Downtown Vancouver (BC) Business Improvement Association, there is a link between crime and a dumpster being located nearby. Their records showed that ninety percent of street "incidents" (aggressive panhandling, drug dealing, altercations) occured within fifty-five yards of a dumpster.
Personally I'm skeptical whether there's a cause and effect relation between the two. But Vancouver will be removing all back-alley dumpsters within a 90-block area downtown. A daily garbage bag removal system will be used instead of the dumpsters. Removing the dumpsters will provide additional space for art projects and pedestrian/cyclist access.
This project will be completed by December 31st, 2007. Would something like this be doable in Port Angeles?
Personally I'm skeptical whether there's a cause and effect relation between the two. But Vancouver will be removing all back-alley dumpsters within a 90-block area downtown. A daily garbage bag removal system will be used instead of the dumpsters. Removing the dumpsters will provide additional space for art projects and pedestrian/cyclist access.
This project will be completed by December 31st, 2007. Would something like this be doable in Port Angeles?
posted by Tom Harper at 7:31 PM
5 Comments:
I knew it! Everytime I walk by my dumpster I have an incredable almost irresistable urge to urinate, shoot heroin and spray paint racial slurs. I am soo happy someone spent the time and money to figure this out.
Umm, wouldn't do anything for Port Angeles. We don't have a downtown that has much of anything, for one. Second, when was the last time you were panhandled downtown? Aside from the city digging into your pocket for it's stupid over-budget and too ambitious (for the per capita income) projects, I don't find anyone else asking for money.
As for crime....what we need is some good foot patrols downtown...and more things for kids to do.
Oh wait, but THAT WON'T HAPPEN, because Public Works is headed up by a mad man.
Edna Petersen is forming a Dumpster Advocacy Commission. "Keep Downtown Port Angeles Beautiful, Save a Dumpster!"
Research indicates that Fyodor Dostoevsky intended to title his novel Crime and Dumpsters but, finding a lack of dumpsters in 19th Century Moscow and hence a lack of crime, had to look elsewhere for a plot and title.
One thing that might be missed by a rush to get rid of dumpsters is an increase in scavenger type animals that feed on the garbage made more accessable by placing food waste in containers likely to break open. Case in point is Toyko: crow population increased, depending on which study you read, between 40% and 100% in about 10 years ending in the mid 1990's due to an increase in food waste deposited curbside.
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