City Public Libraries

are not really safe places anymore for the regular or average library-goers, particularly (unaccompanied) children. Bathrooms can be especially dangerous. There are way too many bums, street people, and druggies frequenting them (and, historically, they have long been around in downtown libraries like Edmonton’s going back to 1968!). Large libraries today need at least 2 cops to act as deterrents and to deal with the problem street bums that potentially threaten innocent patrons who totally mind their own business and use the libraries for their actual intended purposes.