Cost of policing...

I never understood why municipalities don't make use of mobile staff security guards.  They can provide a presence, they become the eyes and ears of police (who are spread thin) and can report incidents without getting directly involved.  They are also much less expensive than the police.

There is definitely an undesirable segment of society moving into the Langleys and along with it it's attendant criminal aspect.  When the risk is low security can pester vagrants and film drug dealers (no drug dealer likes flash bubs going off in their direction)  encouraging them to get-out-of-town.

Let's face it, if we aren't proactive and take a stand parts of the Langleys shamefully will become slums.  If you go with the socialist agenda and provide shelters much more of a bedraggled and amoral fringe element will be attracted here and slums will be guaranteed.

The time to act is now, for Langley is an attractive venue for these people and some parts are already becoming seedy with visible (out in the open) drug deals and dumpster-divers.  I know, it is heartless of me, but you wont think so when your kids start finding syringes and condoms around your neighborhoods.

Btw, every business should have a lock on their dumpsters unless they want to keep cleaning up the mess a dumpster-diver makes.  Further you are responsible to clean-up that mess and you can get a hefty fine for littering if you don't do so and Langley bylaws decide they are going to notice...  After all who wants your garbage flying around the town on the wind after some recently entrenched vagrant digs through your dumpster.

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