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New Haven police to distribute ‘crack’ pipes, syringes, in hope of keeping addicts alive
nhregister.com ^ | February 6, 2020 | Ben Lambert

Posted on 02/07/2020 6:57:57 AM PST by lowbridge

City police will begin distributing “harm reduction kits,” including clean syringes and glass pipes, with hopes of keeping those battling drug addiction alive until they are able to commit to seek treatment.

Police Chief Otoniel Reyes said officers often seize and discard needles and pipes, among other paraphernalia, when making an arrest.

But often times, once people are released from custody, they rush to use, driven by addiction — and use unsafe or unfamiliar equipment, placing at them at greater risk of overdosing or contracting HIV.

“While many think that the primary responsibility of police is to protect and enforce the laws, for us in New Haven, the primary responsibility is the protection and the preservation of life. Although there are many situations where we have to arrest, we want our people to know that want to we support every individual’s road to recovery,” said Reyes. “This epidemic is complicated. This affects every facet of our community. And the New Haven Police Department cares deeply about every member of its community.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
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1 posted on 02/07/2020 6:57:57 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

That should do it. Who’s got the Brilliant! guy meme?


2 posted on 02/07/2020 7:00:09 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: lowbridge

WOW. Words fail.


3 posted on 02/07/2020 7:00:11 AM PST by FES0844
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To: lowbridge

I think sometimes the safety neet needs to have a few holes in it. It’s a shame society spends so much time and resources trying to save people who are self-destructive.


4 posted on 02/07/2020 7:00:19 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: lowbridge

New Haven. University town.

Soon to have poop all over sidewalks.


5 posted on 02/07/2020 7:01:06 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge

Coming soon to a socialist utopia near you, thousands of used hypodermic needles littering the streets.


6 posted on 02/07/2020 7:02:09 AM PST by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: lowbridge

I guess that providing hookers to sex addicts will be next.


7 posted on 02/07/2020 7:02:11 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: lowbridge

Sorry, but that’s just enabling.

Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they seek help and making their addiction easier for them is not going to achieve that.


8 posted on 02/07/2020 7:03:25 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: lowbridge
Reworded...

"City police, acting as accessories to crime, will begin distributing “harm reduction kits...”

9 posted on 02/07/2020 7:03:28 AM PST by moovova
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To: Army Air Corps

Or guns and masks to serial bank robbers


10 posted on 02/07/2020 7:04:53 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Why?

How dumb. How insulting to the law abiding taxpayer to squander their money this way and further endanger them by enabling druggies.

Social justice warriors out of control.

Better to just bury them.


11 posted on 02/07/2020 7:06:37 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: lowbridge

What’s next?

Condoms for RAPISTS?.................


12 posted on 02/07/2020 7:07:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: lowbridge

Virtue signalling of the most idiotic order. If you care about these addicts, you’d make it HARDER for them to use, not easier. Grab a dictionary and look up “enablement.”


13 posted on 02/07/2020 7:09:22 AM PST by IronJack
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To: lowbridge
*tilt*
14 posted on 02/07/2020 7:09:23 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: lowbridge
Give them a syringe but make them sign a Do Not Resuscitate.
15 posted on 02/07/2020 7:09:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Sequoyah101

This is unfair to alcoholics.

The police should hand out free vodka .


16 posted on 02/07/2020 7:10:12 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: lowbridge

Just think how much money gets spent on salaries, benefits and pensions for people who are worth a billion times less (in terms of value to society) than the average street bum.

That’s the real crime here. That these “public servants” are living like Public Royalty while doing such “work” (quote, unquote) as this.


17 posted on 02/07/2020 7:11:42 AM PST by samtheman (Trump TV Ad: Virginia takes guns. NY legalizes crime. Iowa steals votes. What Democrats do.)
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To: lowbridge

Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven.


18 posted on 02/07/2020 7:11:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ifinnegan
New Haven. University town.

Soon to have poop all over sidewalks.


Some Yalies will be potheads and maybe some scattered heroin and LSD users. The other 90,000 people in Neww Haven are garden variety underclass types. They don't particularly frequent the same neighborhoods, which is good, as Sally's Apizza doesn't need that. Modern Apizza is near a rough area, however, and that is endangered.
19 posted on 02/07/2020 7:12:41 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: lowbridge

Yes, let’s keep them alive so they can continue to prey on society.


20 posted on 02/07/2020 7:14:21 AM PST by Renkluaf
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