Albany pols, NYPD order cops to do nothing as drug addicts shoot up

nypost.com/ ^ | 10/16/21 | By Kerry J. Byrne and Dean Balsamini

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Albany pols, NYPD order cops to do nothing as drug addicts shoot up

New York City’s war on drugs is over. The junkies won.

The New York Police Department waved the white flag last week — upon orders to surrender from Albany — directing officers to let drug addicts freely shoot up on city streets, and even let them share needles.

“Effective immediately, members of the service should not take any enforcement action against any individual who possesses a hypodermic needle, even when it contains residue of a controlled substance,” states a directive to NYPD commanders issued last Friday and obtained by The Post.

Senate Bill 2523, cited in the order to street cops, decriminalizes the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes, commonly used by addicts to inject drugs such as heroin.

[BusterDog]

If they wanted to stop the drugs from coming into the country, they would.

At some point you just have to admit that they want more drugs coming into the country, they want more people addicted to drugs, and they want more people to die from drug use.

And that’s both political parties, by the way.

[MinorityRepublican]

The gift that keeps on giving.

[littleharbour]

The competition for the title of “America’s Worst 3rd World Sh**hole” is fierce. Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Baltimore are all in the race, but the real contest is between LA, NYC and SF. When the tourists remain away from New York they can convert the empty hotels into flop houses for drug addicts.

[Brian Griffin]

NY, CA, OR & WA need to catch up.

map of 2019 Drug Overdose Death Rates per 100,000 residents:
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/2019.html

[Brian Griffin]

“Nearly 841,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States.”

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html

They should bury overdose dead on public school grounds, so the children learn.

[nathanbedford]

New York City’s war on drugs is over. The junkies won.

Your summation is true, we have lost the war against drugs more certainly than we lost the war in Afghanistan. In both cases the outcome might be deplored but perhaps we ought to ask ourselves whether the wars were waged for the wrong reasons and in any event,, were ultimately hopeless.

We are currently fighting a second war, the right to dispose of our bodies free of government diktat. We abhor the government telling us that we must inject a vaccine drug into our bodies but we conservatives are only too eager to let the government tell us that we may not inject a different drug into our own bodies.

In each instance, we are dealing with questions of liberty. Quite apart from the practical reality that the war on drugs was a hopeless quest with infinitely harmful collateral damage, that war was also a war against ourselves and against our liberty. Perhaps we ought to consider that, as benighted as is Islamist terrorists in Afghanistan are, their perverted faith proved stronger than the might of the American government. Equally tenacious is the power of drug addiction.

Whether it was as originally conceived a worthy quest, the collateral damage the war on drugs caused, the loss of liberties- beyond the mere right to control what goes into our bodies-the loss of our precious Bill of Rights, the trillions squandered, the cartels enriched, the criminals empowered, our system of justice corrupted, are foreign enemies and terrorists financed and all the rest should make us thankful that at least some government places show the white flag.

[webheart]

Eeek!

[Mears]

There will always be tourists who love visiting NYC.

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[kenmcg]

Go to the You Tube channel, put on Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Ave. it is shocking what is going on, while many young people are waiting away thanks to liberal politics.

[webheart]

It’s about time to let drug users use their drugs. They will not stop no matter what the cost or penalty. They don’t care about legal or illegal. There are too many of them to enforce the laws properly. I argue that they should abolish all drug laws. It would take the profit incentive out for the criminals who supply the drugs. It would lower the price so that users would not have to steal to be able to afford them. There would be a decrease in the population especially of people who don’t contribute to the tax base. Call me insensitive.

Those tents by the freeway are populated by drug users who choose their drugs over the responsibility of rent and utilities. People say tent dwellers are mentally ill and can’t cope. That is bullshit. They are drug addicts who have adapted to the necessity of living in tents because drugs are very expensive.

People say if we legalize drugs there will be crazy drug users all over the place. Look around! There are already crazy drug users all over the place.

[ConservativeMind]

And just like that, some crime numbers went to “zero.”

[Mark]

A perfect time for social workers to step in.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these issues.

[Grampa Dave]

“Nearly 841,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States.”

It will be interesting to see the totals for last year and this year.

Also, how many dead from OD’s are not reported by family members and friendly doctors.

Our younger adult family members in the 50 age group say that fatal OD’s are often not mentioned in the obits and other final observations.

[Grampa Dave]

“The gift that keeps on giving.”

From generation to generation!

[Manic_Episode]

Vigilantes should run up and forcibly administer naloxone to any junkies they see banging. Hilarity will ensue.