Mayor Ken Sim and ABC are focused on keeping Vancouver safe through a balanced, compassionate approach. Over the past three years, Vancouver has taken action where others would not: ✅ Did not renew the Seymour OPS lease after serious impacts on the surrounding neighbourhood. ✅ Fully funded VPD and all the 55 needed frontline mental health nurses when other levels of government were slow to act, resulting in the lowest violent crime rate in 23 years. ✅ Removed dangerous Hastings Street encampments that had been entrenched for years and restored access to sidewalks and public spaces. ✅ Successfully called on the Province to end its failed decriminalization policy and restore baseline public safety. ✅ Brought together mayors from across the region to call for mandatory care and better treatment options for those struggling. ✅ Endorsed Task Force Barrage in the Downtown Eastside, contributing to a 44% reduction in robberies, an 18% reduction in violent crime, and a 34% reduction in structural fires. ✅ Supported the establishment of a dedicated policing district for the Downtown Eastside and surrounding areas, ensuring greater focus and dedicated resources for the neighbourhood. ✅ Opened a new police training centre in the former Woodward's building, bringing approximately 300 law enforcement professionals into the neighbourhood every day and creating long-term structural change. ✅ Continued to push the Province to remove dangerous SROs from Granville Street that contribute to street disorder, crime, and unsafe living conditions for residents. We haven't gotten everything right, but Vancouver is moving in the right direction, and there is still more work to be done. We will continue to fight for mandatory care, meaningful expansions in treatment and recovery services, appropriate safeguards around OPS locations, and actions on some of the City’s most problematic SROs and supportive housing facilities. We can't afford to go back to the failures of previous administrations. Let's keep Vancouver moving forward. #abcvancouver #publicsafety #affordablitily