ltrain Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 http://www.vancourier.com/life/Vancouver+police+chief+Canuck+fans+come+downtown/6343668/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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j3ff Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Not surprising. Gotta love when a small group of people ruin it for everyone else. I for one will be enjoying most playoff games in the comfort of my own home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 If the Canucks make the Stanley Cup playoffs, Vancouver Police Department Chief Jim Chu has a warning for fans: “Don’t come downtown is going to be the philosophy.” Chu said Wednesday at a Vancouver Police Board meeting the city is against downtown celebrations and wants them replaced with regional festivities parties at community centres. “The ’94 riot there was nothing, but people came anyway. The thought afterwards was well we need to give them something to do. So in 2011 the thought was put screens up, encourage families to come down to give the balance of crowd dynamics,” he said. “Of course, that didn’t work, so I think this time around don’t come downtown is going to be the philosophy.” Chu said having thousands of onlookers downtown after the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs last June made it hard for police to tackle rioters. “I talked to one frontline officer who wanted to get at a rioter who threw a Molotov cocktail, and he couldn’t get at them because there was a mom and dad and two kids standing there, watching everything and wouldn’t go home.” Chu’s comments echo those of former VPD spokesperson Const. Anne Drennan who famously told Vancouverites looking to celebrate the dawn of the new millennium, “Don’t think you’re going to come down and party on the street.” Her comment was widely seen as a low point in Vancouver’s reputation as “No Fun City,” a moniker finally shed by the 2010 Winter Olympics. Board member Mary Collins questioned the city’s approach. “The basic demographic involved, the young males, I don’t think they’d be going to the community centres in Dunbar or Marpole,” she said. Collins wondered whether anyone was studying deterrents for the demographic of young men largely responsible for the riot. She suggested developing a campaign akin to the anti-drinking and driving campaign mounted 25 years ago. Chu called criminal charges and the police’s poster campaign deterrents. He noted 150 individuals have been recommended for riot-related charges. “If you think every single person tells two friends they’re up on charges [that] spreads quite significantly,” Chu said, noting he believes the poster campaign is working. “I’ve shared some anecdotes with the board that people are looking actively on the website to see if their picture appears so that they don’t get on the next poster. That’s 70,000 copies throughout the region.” Chu added riots run in cycles so deterrents for one generation might be lost on the next. “When we have the Peachfest, or the Kelowna regatta, or the ’94 riot, there’s a whole generation of people that realize holy smoke, we can get in big trouble by doing it,” he said. “I’m not saying we’d be OK for now, but I think that message is there. Ten years from now there’ll be another generation of kids that may not remember it and we may see a repeat of it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodzillaDeuce Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJokinen! Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 tl;dr version: We can't have nice things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdeath Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Good luck with that. His memo should have been to the Canucks: Don't lose game 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyfresh Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 last year was so awesome during the playoffs...its so weird how one day can change everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Aerosex Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 last year was so awesome during the playoffs...its so weird how one day can change everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandmaster Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I imagine that if there was a repeated riot, there will be a lot stronger calls for the Chief and Mayor to lose their jobs and they know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katobaron Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Good. The only people I knew who went downtown were the people who jumped the bandwagon after finishing first in the league and who ended up smashing windows and burning cars. Nothing wrong with watching the game from a pub, a friends house or the comfort of your own home. The transit on game days was a nightmare as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*VaNcOuVeRCaNuCkS* Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 He is only saying this to cover his butt in case something were to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li'l Fra Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I bet the bar owners are loving that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
406281dylan Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 trust me people will go frack the police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 So what about people who live downtown? Stay in your houses, don't come outside! Sorry buddy, it's a free country. Maybe if you had done your job properly, we wouldn't have to worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick_winch Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 good, it was an idiotic idea in the first place. they were just asking for trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtpasc Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 fair enough I say. buncha hooligans ruin good things for all the normal people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Well I guess you can't have everything (to the VanCity braggarts ). I'd rather watch at home anyway myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberries Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 damn rioters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haikara Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 That's fair. The people of vancouver have proven they don't deserve an outdoor event like last year. Riots in London, Ontario probably scared every police agency in Canada from allowing large public events. Not sure if I read it correctly, but it seems they are making posters of rioters to put throughout the city. Sounds like a pretty good deterrent to me. Unless a rioter has no friends or family, I'm sure none of them want to be publicly shown as a criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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