Friday, December 22, 2006

[Australia] Injecting room 'not bad' for crime / Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Dec 2006

"Sydney's controversial supervised injecting room has had no impact on local crime rates, new figures show. The NSW Opposition has repeatedly called for the medically supervised injecting centre (MSIC) at Kings Cross to be shut down, most recently claiming users were going there to inject the drug ice. Critics of the facility claim it attracts drug users to the area to deal narcotics and leads to increased crime. But the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) found crime in Kings Cross has remained steady or declined since the injecting room opened five years ago."
Recent trends in property and drug-related crime in Kings Cross
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