Watch: Edmonton's downtown crime on the increase

Jodie Berry, a downtown resident for a dozen years and also a co-ordinator for REACH, a city organization that helps place homeless people with community services, says a few years ago her building was hit with a big increase in break-ins, theft and dumpster diving, as well as folks camping out, taking drugs, defecating and urinating and leaving a mess in the back alley.
Condo residents were outraged and constantly called in the police.
These people are residents of our city …,” she