There is a void at the B.C. NDP’s convention in Victoria this weekend about an issue that party members’ own government grapples with constantly and is high up on the public agenda.

In 418 pages of resolutions submitted by members and two days full of meetings, the mentions of “crime” are few and far between.

Street crime, how the judicial system handles it and the mental health and addiction problems behind much of it, have been the dominant issues of Premier David Eby’s time in office. But party members have found just about everything else in the world to talk about except that.

When municipal leaders gathered here two months ago, street crime came up repeatedly in panels, speeches and resolutions. This weekend at the NDP gathering, it is almost nowhere to be found.

The only place where “safer streets” gets mentioned is in a resolution to lower municipal speed limits to 30 km/h.

Crime in the broader sense gets scant mention anywhere. There are a........

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