Safe injection site improves ‘public order’ and saves tax dollars
Professor Neil Boyd, a criminologist at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University, told CTV’s Canada AM on Monday that Insite, the five-year-old safe-injection site, has not had a negative impact on its community.
“We looked at crime rates in the area surrounding Insite, and we talked to business operators, we talked to service providers, to police, to residents in the surrounding vicinity. We found, overwhelmingly, people had very positive sentiments,” Boyd said.
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