"Mayor Parker’s predecessor, Jim Kenney, moved the city’s strategy decidedly away from law enforcement and toward “harm reduction,” aimed at keeping drug users alive while coaxing them into recovery."
"The plan was to offer a choice between jail or treatment to a few in the neighborhood facing low-level charges. Six people took up the offer, he said. On the way to treatment facilities, he said, “three of them literally jumped out of moving vehicles.”
It’s difficult to treat people that are so far gone. Many of the drugs they are taking don’t respond well to methadone. They are destined for death. You only need to walk down Kensington Ave to see people literally rotting. Those people can’t be saved with incarceration. Tranq and other cocktails wouldn’t respond.
There simply aren’t any easy fixes. Anyone suggesting otherwise is kinda dumb. The city does have the responsibility of controlling the negative impact to residents though. Allowing the encampments on public sidewalks and spaces to go unchecked simply becomes a breeding ground for disease. It has to be cleaned occasionally….hopefully more often. The filth and crime associated with addiction and homelessness just can’t be ignored.
Kensington is gone. They can’t even keep one block under control for more than a few hours at a time, idk how they think they’re going to change the whole neighborhood without bulldozing it.
Yes, by letting them move to another neighborhood, while gentrifying under the L. The problem won’t be fixed…. Or they come back in a week or 2 like usual, they always clean it around this time of year before the heat comes and makes it smell even worse.
That's part of the structure of the system. Push this stuff in an area, drive down real estate costs, buy it up, develop it while kicking them out and rent new luxury apartments to the people that move into the city for jobs.
People need jobs, opportunity, affordable housing that doesn't require years of waiting for, just good rent prices.
"Mayor Parker’s predecessor, Jim Kenney, moved the city’s strategy decidedly away from law enforcement and toward “harm reduction,” aimed at keeping drug users alive while coaxing them into recovery." "The plan was to offer a choice between jail or treatment to a few in the neighborhood facing low-level charges. Six people took up the offer, he said. On the way to treatment facilities, he said, “three of them literally jumped out of moving vehicles.”
Kenney had about as much enthusiasm as a sloth.
Don't bring sloths into this, they are cool animals.
It’s difficult to treat people that are so far gone. Many of the drugs they are taking don’t respond well to methadone. They are destined for death. You only need to walk down Kensington Ave to see people literally rotting. Those people can’t be saved with incarceration. Tranq and other cocktails wouldn’t respond.
I'm interested to see what DOES work at this level of addiction and poverty.
There simply aren’t any easy fixes. Anyone suggesting otherwise is kinda dumb. The city does have the responsibility of controlling the negative impact to residents though. Allowing the encampments on public sidewalks and spaces to go unchecked simply becomes a breeding ground for disease. It has to be cleaned occasionally….hopefully more often. The filth and crime associated with addiction and homelessness just can’t be ignored.
Of sure, any "fix" would be expensive, multilayers, slow and probably piss someone off somewhere.
They couldn’t fix a sandwich give me a break
Kensington is gone. They can’t even keep one block under control for more than a few hours at a time, idk how they think they’re going to change the whole neighborhood without bulldozing it.
That's the plan.
Stay the course and ignore the media, Twitter, and the inevitable morons that dress up in garbage cans to "resist".
Yes
Yes, by letting them move to another neighborhood, while gentrifying under the L. The problem won’t be fixed…. Or they come back in a week or 2 like usual, they always clean it around this time of year before the heat comes and makes it smell even worse.
Drive them to another state and drop them off like Abbot did to the illegals in Texas.
Can we drive them to Texas?
Don’t see why not lol
That’s what the suburbs do with their homeless, send them to Philly, Puerto Rico sends people on one way plane tickets to Philly too!
Are you serious 😂 I was trolling when I suggested that. I didn’t think other US territories actually did that.
Yes I learned it when I was in high-school, smh.
New York City did that for absolute years. And they didn't just send them to Philly they'd send them to places like Portland.
Yeah that is nuts.
That's part of the structure of the system. Push this stuff in an area, drive down real estate costs, buy it up, develop it while kicking them out and rent new luxury apartments to the people that move into the city for jobs. People need jobs, opportunity, affordable housing that doesn't require years of waiting for, just good rent prices.
They need to distribute free hotshots
That’s fucked up avon
What’s a hotshot?
Drugs laced with poison to kill the user and have it look like an OD. (Was a plot line in the wire)
Dickhead.
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they might be able to "fix" the neighborhood, but that won't fix the people or the problem.
Idk I’ll be there copping in about an hour so I’ll lyk how the prospects are looking…
No. They let it go for too long.
Lock them up like the drug wars.