Holy shitballs does this ever bring back some memories. Those old-style 1980s busses, the VPD beat cops who don't have to wear body armour because the world isn't a post-9/11 terroristic nightmare yet, and the ol downtown east side. Walked those streets so many times as a teenager, getting wasted and fucking around and never fully realizing just how close true misery lay in proximity to you.
We're going off topic here, but yeah. Vancouver's got probably the worst drug and street crime problem of all the west coast cities of North America outside of Los Angeles.