ยป The First Wave of Tourists
There have been some serious home-invasion style crimes in Victoria in the last few days. Reciprocating saws and sledgehammers used to cut through security gates and barred windows and smash thick glass.
My source tells me it’s a pre-Olympic crime wave that is one of the undesired, unpublicized effects of the event. International gangs move in, loot, and disappear in the confusion.
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What is the motivation for the international gangs to come to Olympic-host areas and do home invasions? How is doing this now in Victoria easier or more profitable than it would have been for them a year ago, or a year from now?
Don
1 Feb 10 at 9:39 pm
Police officers are being seconded from around BC to Vancouver-Whistler during the Games, but I don’t know how much that has happened yet. And I assumed that the secondment was mostly overtime (the $1 billion security cost has to come from somewhere) and minimal service levels were being maintained?
But what do I know compared to Jack’s anonymous sources?
Jared
2 Feb 10 at 11:05 am
@Don: I think the theory is that police here would just have no idea who (individually) was committing these crimes, and that a local force would have trouble chasing criminals internationally.
@Jared: The anonymous source was a police officer
Jack
2 Feb 10 at 1:52 pm