Thirty miles from U.S. border , authorities in Vancouver report gang warfare . `` In these regional operations , the tendency has been for the offenders to be arrested , charged and processed in the United States , not Canada , '' said Robert Gordon , director of the School of Criminology at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia . Violence the result of turf wars over increased drug trade . Innocent bystanders have fallen victim to police ' heavy guns . Drug dealers sometimes tried in the US , where sentencing is stiffer .
Thirty miles from U.S. border , authorities in Vancouver report gang warfare . Violence the result of turf wars over increased drug trade . Innocent bystanders have fallen victim to police ' heavy guns . Drug dealers sometimes tried in the US , where sentencing is stiffer .