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The city is beefing up security downtown to curb a rise in nuisance and petty crime in and around the core.
Brantford police statistics show there’s a disproportionately high number of occurrences in Ward 5, which includes downtown, Eagle Place, East Ward and Echo Place, compared to other parts of the city.
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The number of calls to police over the past three years to report property damage, drugs, intoxicated persons, unwanted persons, theft under $5,0000, and mischief indicates occurrences in Ward 5 were two to five times higher than those in the city’s other four wards.