Oshawa installed a box that utters a high-pitched noise to deter people from sleeping under a local bridge, or even from loitering for long — is it a crime prevention device or just more survival of the richest? New from Pam_Frampton SaltWire
A man makes a plea for decency at a subway station. — Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home…”It’s called a CPTED, which stands for crime prevention through environmental design, but there’s no need for euphemisms. Let’s call it what it is: a device to repel people.
The City of Oshawa has defended the tactic, issuing a statement to CTV News saying that the area in question “was identified by police, municipal law enforcement and corporate security as an area of criminal activity,” and that the city had received complaints from members of the public concerned for their safety there.
The noisemaker falls into the category of anti-loitering strategies known as hostile architecture. Like park benches divided by metal railings into individual seats so that no one can stretch out on them, or pointed metal spikes used on windowsills to prevent birds from roosting, these are features introduced to public spaces for the express purpose of keeping creatures — avian, homo sapiens or otherwise — away.
The citizens of Oshawa would be better served by having their tax dollars used to pay outreach workers to help those without shelter, rather than installing high-pitched devices to drive fellow citizens away like so many irritant pigeons.
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