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Because I'm a strong proponent of both road safety and prevention of industrial accidents.
I've identified a defficency in the safety policy and procedure of a group or an organization in my community and I'm spending a little of my time to correct it. Itks only a matter of time before an officer is struck and killed accidentally on the side of the road and a contributing factor was the lack of high visibility PPE. Then, just because the person who was struck was police, the person charged with their death (if found guilty) would likely face the harshest penalty ever seen for manslaughter of this type simply because they hit a police officer.
Don't think I'm doing this to only police. On Halloween, a school crossing guard (paid adult) wearing a mostly black costume instead ofn the usual high visibility PPE. Called the school board and it was corrected for that afternoon. I don't know why police resist this so much.
As for why I'm not worrying about the DTES, that's nnot my community; Burnaby is. Whenever u see something happening in Burnaby it takes higher priority as a project than anywhere else.
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