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Old 07-16-2020, 03:57 PM
 
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You are talking drug-fueled parties, overdoses, deaths, people are being assaulted. You have sexual assaults going on, it is pandemonium,” she said. “It is extremely bad and it needs to stop. The people who are assigned as disaster workers, these people have been librarians. They are just paper pushers, administrators who are reassigned to these hotels and what they are telling me is beyond the pale.”

And how do the innocent bureaucrats fare in their new roles? “They are not just horrified, they are traumatized by what they see,” said Sandberg. “You have mattresses that have feces on them, blood, hospital bands on the floor. What people are seeing is so horrible that they walk out and they say, ‘I don’t want to go back in there.'”

A man who had just left one of the city shelters wrote on Twitter, “I just found out that homeless placed in hotels in SF are being delivered Alcohol, Weed and Methadone because they identified as an addict/alcoholic for FREE. You’re supposed to be offering treatment. This is enabling and is wrong on many levels.”

Who is paying for the trashed hotel rooms where booze and drugs are delivered to? You are. The feds are paying 75 percent of costs associated with housing the homeless in San Francisco. That’s your tax dollars.

In related news, citizens and education leaders in San Francisco are suing the city because city-sanctioned homeless tent cities are blighting neighborhoods and increasing virus infection risk.

“We are suing because our neighborhood has become a pandemic containment zone,” David Faigman, chancellor and dean at UC Hastings told the press.

“The city has basically cordoned off our area. Tents are blocking the streets. Tents are blocking doorways. There are needles in the streets. There’s open-air drug dealing. There’s no neighborhood in San Francisco that should tolerate that,” Faigman said.
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Old 07-16-2020, 04:07 PM
 
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How exaggerated is this?

There is death from withdrawal.
And I forgot which country, but they actually had safe injection stations for addiction and intervined.
Overdoses dropped and many users were helped to get back on their feet.

Basically treat addiction like a heath crisis not crime.
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