How it started: San Francisco began experimenting with “safe injection sites” to help alleviate the staggering number of overdose deaths.
It worked as expected…by anyone with an ounce of common sense.
Images taken by DailyMail.com show a woman slumped over in a wheelchair, her pants down around her ankles, preparing to inject a needle into her thigh. The woman sitting on the ground next to her has a needle to her neck.Many others are sitting on the ground among trash, empty food containers and dirty blankets, as they fumble in with drug paraphernalia in the cold weather.The center, which opened on January 18, is part of the San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Intervention plan introduced last year. The linkage center is located at 1172 Market Street, in the United Nations Plaza. The supervised drug consumption area is an outdoor fenced section of the linkage center – just blocks away from the city’s court house, San Francisco City Hall and the Civic Center. Aerial footage of the area shows the city’s Pioneer Monument overrun with homeless tents. at new ‘linkage center’ in San Francisco last week show an open air illicit drug consumption site that is now littered with needles and crowded with addicts shooting up in broad daylight.
How it’s going: San Francisco officials are begging for ideas to develop a ‘soft touch’ scheme to deal with the city’s relentless drug crisis – insisting that under their plan, ‘nobody’s going to jail.’
With nearly 1,700 fatal overdoses since the start of 2020, San Francisco’s drug crisis has resulted in almost double the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.In June, the city’s mayor, London Breed, announced that their notorious taxpayer-funded open-air drugs market will close at the end of the year.Tuesday’s plan, named ‘San Francisco Recovers,’ appeared to be a return to the open-air market system, however.Their plan promoted ‘supervised consumption sites where drug users can safely use substances under medical supervision to prevent accidental overdose deaths.’They featured a range of other requests for handling the crisis, but instead of mapping a way to achieve them instead requested the 21 city departments and six city commissions come up with ideas for them within 90 days.Matt Dorsey, a supervisor, said that the goals were deliberately ‘soft touch.’
Reasonable people are skeptical that any idea devoid of substantial criminal penalties will work.
In other news, which may possibly be related, billboards warn Los Angeles and San Francisco residents about moving to Texas.
While the billboard shows no obvious political affiliation or sponsor, some Redditors speculated that the billboard is trying to send a message, possibly coming from strongly conservative Texans who are trying to stop the proliferation of liberal Californians moving to Texas, especially with the looming gubernatorial elections in November. Others speculate that the billboard came from Californians who are attempting to slow the mass exodus of residents packing up and leaving for Texas.The Los Angeles billboard is located at the intersection of Barham and Cahuenga boulevards, overlooking the 101 Freeway. The San Francisco billboard, located near the intersection of Folsom Street and 7th Street, is leased to advertisers by FoxPoint Media, a billboard advertising company based out of Chicago.
I wish San Francisco officials tons of good luck with their quest, and may God have mercy on the law-abiding residents of the city.
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