emergency crews rushed to a dangerous scene at Kingston's integrated care Hub where two people were stabbed to death at a supervised consumption site the suspect surrendering after a 6-hour standoff with police I'm not surprised no I'm not no I mean there I knew it's going to happen eventually sentiments like that are often expressed by residents who live near supervised consumption sites accusing them of attracting crime they were Amplified when innocent bystander karolina Huer Maat was killed in a shooting outside of one in downtown Toronto last summer emotions were high at a neighborhood Town Hall shortly after they haven't managed their their safe injection site properly that every right to be in this community in Vancouver safety concerns from the community led to the city not renewing the lease of an overdose prevention site earlier this year the Ontario government announced it was cracking down on such sites making it essentially impossible for cities to create more and banning them from existing within 200 MERS of schools in Ontario forcing many of them to close we that includes the Kensington Market overdose prevention site in Toronto where supporters and opposition politicians gathered Friday afternoon urging the government to reconsider I feel very safe and grateful for the Ops rooms no one has ever died in a in a safe supervised consumption site and people also get that first step to Health Care they see a doctor they can see a nurse it means that less people have an overdose it means that they can be supported when they are using uh drugs it means that there will be less people using in washrooms or in schoolyards and evidence shows that it reduced crime but things that impact you viscerally always Trump things you can't immediately see for yourself so it's all not much comfort to many families living near the sites back in Kingston the city's mayor called for the closure of the I after Thursday's incident