Posted on 04/10/2016 6:35:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
No. There are a lot of prosecutors out there that will happily get convictions, whether or not the sort of conviction is warranted. It’s good for a prosecutor to have lot of convictions, because that’s how they get to be judges or politicians.
Seattle tried a very interesting experiment of putting confirmed street alcoholics in a refurbished hotel. No effort to rehabilitate them, just give them a safe place to sleep, frequent showers, some food, and a nurse to tend to them.
Turns out it saved a lot of money for emergency services, and paid for itself several times over.
Importantly, it stripped off any veneer of either morality or social engineering, as the emphasis was on saving money. However, it was noted that the alcoholics tended to drink less on their own.
Medical problems were addressed early, before they became major; and they were no longer abused by street thugs or frustrated police.
To my knowledge the program is still in effect, with some minor modifications.
Los Angeles should try this. And anti psychotic meds for the mentally ill or they can’t get in.
do the ‘homeless’ still own pacific garden mall?
I left there in the 80’s when it was becoming a magnet for derelicts. sadly there is no hope that the Marxists there will impose an effective policy. lee kuan yew was never popular here..
Coca and opium are being grown in the US?
Huh. First I’ve heard.
Your way has been a documented, abysmal failure for 5 decades. It’s a solution that’s far worse than the problem.
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You’re right. Those are the only drugs addicts use. Crystal meth us a myth.
If so, then may you be the one to live with the problem and enjoy.
We’re living with your solutions now. Don’t like it much.
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And crystal meth-heads are such benign, harmless critters. What’s the harm in just letting them get a little high?
I’ve encountered a few meth-heads in my travels, as well as horse-heads and crack-heads. The notion that if it were all legal and safe for the addict, then all the problems for the rest of us would go away, is just naive.
These drugs alter the brain, and create violent, psychotic behaviors. Not to mention abscessed veins, gangrene, amputations—regardless whether the addict shoots up in an alley or in a comfy little shooting gallery.
Yeah, I know. You’re correct that morality and responsibility really can’t be enforced. Some people are gonna do what they do, regardless.
But society as a whole still has, and should maintain, a vested interest in discouraging dangerous behaviors, not tolerating them, and certainly not encouraging them.
Creating “safe spaces” for people to injest poisons that destroy their bodies and induce psychoses, then turning them loose on the streets to wreak havoc isn’t compassionate and it just isn’t the right thing to do.
Worse, it serves the left’s overall agenda of weakening this once-great nation and bringing it to its knees.
well, it’s the only thing that works for horrific head pain, night terrors and insomnia, nerves twitching and muscle spasms from head injury/nervous system damage.
been on a million things over 10 years, nothing else helps.
If it kills me young, I’m not afraid of dying, never was.
At least i’ll have some comfort those years.
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