With the influx of more hard-core drugs like fentanyl and cocaine, the addiction level has increased to the point that the addicts here in the community have no cares of where they get their next fix. The crimes to help feed that are on the rise, as well as the violence, because we have outsiders coming in who are supplying the drugs and the traffickers are community members here. At times there's violence against each other, and then there's violence against their spouses, like Penny has alluded to with domestic violence. More recently, there have been a lot of homicides in the last little while involving firearms. The basis of everything is drugs.
On May 10th, 2022. See this statement in context.