Your brain on liberalism: Seattle area police finding cars so full of needles that they cannot be searched. (Congress, healthcare)

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by tommy64

The article is short on specifics. I did get the impression that SLC has a milder problem than Seattle.

Seattle isn't aimlessly throwing money @ the homeless, they have an organized approach but the problem is probably too intense to get much traction.

I think the single best thing that'd help would be to reduce the population by reducing the dole.

Reducing the dole won't stop the homeless problem or the addiction problem. It will just relocate the problem. This is a nationwide problem.

[EastCoastRefugee2]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

These addicts and their aftermath of self destruction is a scourge on all of us.


With Seattle in the news so much with the coddling of and giving sanctuary to illegal aliens plus these safe zones for heroine users to shoot up and never mind the crime that permeates from these unlawful practices Seattle is not on my list to ever visit.

Parts of Southern Mass and the Cape are filled with the same types. I worked public health there for a short while. So please, high horse and all...

[EastCoastRefugee2]

Originally Posted by tommy64

Flyover country doesn't subsidize this stuff. Seattle OTOH has progressive liberals who enable it.

Interesting views you have: Grieving father: 'I don't play Trump songs anymore' - CNN.com

[Bobdreamz]

drug addiction doesn't subscribe to a political ideology...moreso to a human one.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Bobdreamz

drug addiction doesn't subscribe to a political ideology...moreso to a human one.

Thing is, there are those who want this to be about politics.

[tommy64]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Reducing the dole won't stop the homeless problem or the addiction problem. It will just relocate the problem. This is a nationwide problem.

Seattle can stop competing for the nations homeless by cutting the dole. If Portland/SF/D.C./Boston can offer a better deal, let 'em.

[Kracer]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

Some vehicles so full of dirty needles police cannot search them | KIRO-TV


Police are encountering vehicles that cannot be safely searched by cop nor cop dog due to the presence of many discarded needles. Ah well, at least these addicts are not littering by tossing them out onto the ground. But that is a problem too. One neighborhood has offered training to residents on how to properly deal with needles that are found on the ground.
See A Used Heroin Needle? Seattle Residents Learn To Pick Them Up Safely | KUOW News and Information


The King County (cty in which Seattle lies) Board of Health has also opened 'safe injection sites' for addicts, in part to deal with the problem of needle litter. Last year the city finally cleared out a large homeless encampment under I-5 known as 'The Jungle.' Volunteers filled gallon jugs with thousands of used needles.


YBOL.

automakers take note.... eliminate ashtrays and begin to install needle disposal devices.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by tommy64

Seattle can stop competing for the nations homeless by cutting the dole. If Portland/SF/D.C./Boston can offer a better deal, let 'em.

I live in the Atlanta area. We have far less dole to give out than Seattle. Homeless keep coming here anyway. Seattle isn't competing for homeless. Homeless people just go wherever they can. And how do you where said homeless are coming from?

[tommy64]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Homeless people just go wherever they can.

Your words, sir.

[lepoisson]

This isn't a liberal problem, it's a side effect of how we treat drug abuse in this country. Drug abuse is seen as a criminal matter, when it really should be seen as a health matter.