Crime rates plummet when sports camps visit
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When Corporal Paul Currie and friends flew into the small, northern Manitoba community, crime dropped 78 per cent.
In other northern villages that the RCMP officer visited, vandalism statistics plummeted as much as 49 per cent.
Currie was astounded.
The 23-year RCMP Sports Camp board member expected some positive
response to the fledgling sports program developed to serve Native youth in remote Manitoba communities.
