The Associated Press reports about 150 people gathered in the Mission District to build community support for a city-funded safe-injection center, including backing from Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors.
Heroin and Cocaine aren’t cheap and sort of addicting. Good luck keeping a job to support your habit. Shooting drugs is a real slippery slope:
A) AIDS
B) Homeless
C) Thievery
D) All of the Above.
If you answered “All of the Above,” you were correct.
Why spend taxpayer’s money to sit and watch junkies kill themselves, when we can put the junkies and the rehab center in the jail?
The law is supposed to be blind; not us citizen’s who trip over these chalk outlines on our way to work. Junkies are just as responsible for upholding the law as the people they rob. Enough of this preferential drug treament, jail them! If mayor’s new “services or citation” sweeps don’t net these zombies, then holding, selling illegal should.
Sure, zero will want to participate and few will succeed. Yet, better behind bars, than in front me. The chronic users return to the streets,only long enough to violate their probation and earn longer and longer sentences.
Alive in jail or dead on bail – don’t care! In fact, 911 should answer overdose calls with two options: prison time or funeral parlor?
The only good junky is a dead junky. The problem is the addicts living amongst us; and the solution is jail. My ’soul’ goal is clean, safe streets for taxpayers and voters who’ve had it with vagrancy, panhandling, defecating in doorways and other quality-of-life crimes:
- Dirty Needles in Golden Gate Park
- Busted Car Windows
- Muggings at Knifepoint
- Constant Paper Cup Jiggling Change
- AIDS, Hepatitis C, Etc.
But seriously, I agree with Gavin Newsom’s assesment of the war on drugs and understand the investment won’t be cheap; yet, the status quo may cost your life! Have you walked the Tenderloin lately… It looks like a third world country and now the City want’s us to add a drug den?
I’m not a social worker, but I know how to tie my shoes and wipe ass; and this drug den idea stinks – flush it!
One alternative to overflowing jails is to build a “Tent City” in the Golden Gate Park in which to incarcerate ‘low risk’ inmates with the autority to funnel these addicts and eyesores into mandated programs and out of my face!
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Have you looked at the situation – or are you just ’sounding off’? the drug situation is a colossal fuck-up : your push is for more of what’s not working already.
Maybe you’ve confused me with someone who cares about drug addicts?
Remember, intravenous drug users don’t vote or pay taxes. We do; and we want clean, safe streets – not City Sponsored Drug Dens, so homeless junkies can shoot up and nod off… only to stumble out for a quick burglary.
If you want to save lives, build jails with rehab centers and start arresting junkies.
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Who said anything about caring ? I see a monster kludge where the nation has more prisoners per capita than any other nation on the planet.
Of course, if there was a way of dealing with the problem rather than warehousing people you don’t know WTF to do with.
( There is . Just taking your snark to its most logical extreme )
I’m glad to read you’re concerned with the same problems, I see – ranging from homelessness to homicides.
And, I agree with you these promblems and thereby the solutions are more complicated then just “warehousing people.”
Only, why not put these funds and the facilty and the addicts in the “warehouse” where we have the authority to care for the homeless and addicts who would otherwise refuse our help?
Were our soltion this simple, the real complication is money!
One alternative is to declare a state of emergency to build a “tent city” at Golden Gate Park in which to incarcerate ‘low risk’ inmates, diagnosing and funneling these addicts and eyesores into mandated programs and out of my face!
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Priced the cost of administering such lately ?
The reason that the state should not get involved in certain projects has much to do with not doing shit that doesn’t work. For that I’m likely to be called “Liberal” !
A government has to make choices in what it does. There is a difference in preventing administrative ‘Empire Building” – which is basically what you’re proposing BTW – and thinking that the opposite must therefore be true.
Way to few intelligent choices in that sort of simplistic ‘frame’.
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