Posted on 05/27/2023 2:34:29 PM PDT by knighthawk
Shocking footage has revealed the scale of Philadelphia's untamed 'tranq' epidemic, which has transformed the city's streets into a drug-infested hellhole.
The Kensington neighborhood - known as 'ground zero' for the city's drug crisis - is seen littered with zombie-like addicts, with many shamelessly shooting up in broad daylight.
Gruesome scenes in the 'City of Brotherly Love' show droves of homeless addicts aimlessly staggering through the streets, surrounded by tents and scattered trash.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Woke culture on display.
Another triumph of liberalism.
There are many Youtube videos of drives through Kensington...
It is an unbelievably pitiful place....
There is a Kensington in pretty much every major US city today.
Democrats plan. Destroy law and order, set criminals free, bankrupt the middle class, declare a national emergency and declare the military as the governing force.
Yep...There sure is...Portland, Chicago, San Francisco come to mind...
Building Back Better, means destroying first.
When is today’s version of the Boxer Rebellion going to arise?
Who is going to be our Huo Yuan-Jia to revitalize a nation of strong men who can fight?
Lord, our sins are great, but Your mercy and grace is greater.
Looks like most will be dead by this time next year. Self correcting problem.
So very tragic
Yep.
Get ‘em out on the dirty boulevard
Going out to the dirty boulevard
They’re going down on the dirty boulevard
Going out
-Lou Reed
Blight, flight, and ‘drug tourism’: How decriminalization created blue-city problem
Washington Examiner ^ | May 27, 2023 06:00 AM | Breccan F. Thies, Investigative Reporter
Posted on 5/27/2023, 9:51:36 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
The drug decriminalization wave that swept across America’s most liberal cities has fallen short of its promises of improving drug addiction recovery and overdose deaths.
Beginning in the mid-2010s and making a significant uptick since 2020, drug decriminalization was sold by politicians and liberal activists as a way to combat substance-use disorder by treating it as a disease rather than a crime. The increase in 2020 was spurred by the activism following the murder of George Floyd, who had ingested both fentanyl and methamphetamine, the most prominent drugs found in overdose victims.
Major cities across the country, including Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Baltimore, the District of Columbia, and St. Louis, have pursued decriminalization whether through local law or a district attorney’s decision not to prosecute offenses.
The moves to decriminalize have been followed by increases in homelessness, crime, blight, and drug overdose deaths, leading some to rethink their political decisions. In March 2021, New York legalized marijuana, which even former Gov. Andrew Cuomo called a “disaster.” Later that year, New York City became the first city in the country to open “experimental” safe consumption sites, and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill legalizing the possession of hypodermic needles and syringes used to inject drugs.
San Francisco refuses to prosecute drug crimes and provides addicts with paraphernalia such as needles, metal heroin cookers, aluminum foil and straws to consume fentanyl, and crack pipes.
In July, Washington state will decriminalize all drug possession as lawmakers could not come to an agreement on criminal penalties, and many are looking to what has happened to neighbor Oregon to see what the Evergreen State’s future!..
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com …
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drug-decriminalization-blue-city-problem-blight-drug-tourism
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4156358/posts
I always felt every big city should have a certain area cordoned off with a high wall where anything goes. Drugs, gambling, prostitution. A guarded entrance at one end and a morgue at the exit. Maybe even a Thunderdome for gang shootings.
Keeps the riff-raff off the main streets away from decent people.
Lefties living the American dream promised to them by the Democratic Party. Now that Trumps gone the Democrats can pick up where they left off and finish the job. The destruction of America.
I deliver mail all up and down Kensington . Half the people are laying on the ground and you don’t know who’s alive or who’s dead . And the cops don’t even patrol the Avenue because like Sergeant Schultz, they want to know nothing.
I think that’s really the solution. No prisons for offenders, just send them to “Pleasure Island” where they have to live and have as much fun as humanly possible, until they die.
Also, “defund the police” is a tactic to remove local control. Then the Stazi, sorry, the FBI, can take care of business - in its usual, extremely partisan way. Just like that other Stazi did.
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