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30 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Drug deaths & crime are skyrocketing. We demand action.

Recovering addicts, parents of addicts, & residents will protest in San Francisco at 11:30 am

Our demands:

1. Shut down the deadly drug markets
2. Shelter & Treatment First
3. Housing Earned
We are @calif_peace

We are recovering addicts, parents of addicts, community leaders, and parents of children killed by fentanyl

We advocate nonpartisan, evidence-based solutions

We seek local, state, and federal action

Please learn more & join us:

californiapeacecoalition.org
We considered civil disobedience and decided against it because SF is experiencing an acute police officer shortage, which is contributing to rising crime. Moreover, there is greater awareness of the urgency of the problem. And so our protest will focus on demanding action.
San Francisco's leaders, like progressive leaders nationwide, are failing to address rising drug deaths and crime because there is a powerful financial, political, and ideological lobby that created the problem and is making it worse.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…
The solution to the drug death crisis is straightforward and the same in every civilized nation INCLUDING Portugal and Amsterdam.

This starts with enforcing laws against public camping, drug use, and defecation; universal shelter; and treatment/rehab as alternative to prison.

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Many say climate change threatens economies but a major new report by the New York Fed says the impact of extreme weather events has been & will remain trivial

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It’s fine to disagree with me but I’m raising a serious question: is the plan here to just maintain the fentanyl & meth addictions of people made jobless, family-less, and homeless by their addiction? If that’s the goal be honest about & don’t claim Europe did the same, it didn’t
In Netherlands & Portugal they pressure homeless street addicts to quit. They shut down the open drug scenes. They required people to live in shelters, not the street. Housing is earned. There’s less than 150 people the Dutch govt let’s shoot heroin bc methadone didn’t work.
Where the New York experiment appears to be headed is to have thousands of people administered fentanyl, heroin, meth, whatever, with no regard for getting people off those debilitating drugs so they can re-unite with families, work, and be independent, not chemically controlled
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29 Nov
Progressives have long claimed homelessness is just a result of poverty, but a growing number of insiders are admitting that the unsheltered homeless live in tents to support their addiction, and that so-called "homeless advocates" are making the problem worse

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In my new book, San Fransicko, I describe why progressives create and defend what European researchers call “open drug scenes,” which are places in cities where drug dealers and buyers meet, and many addicts live in tents.
Progressives call these scenes “homeless encampments,” and not only defend them but have encouraged their growth, which is why the homeless population in California grew 31 percent since 2000. This was mostly a West Coast phenomenon until recently.
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27 Nov
Not that long ago progressive cities like Seattle and San Francisco held conferences promoting themselves, smugly, as models of “livable, walkable cities.” Now, their downtown stores are boarded up and open drug scenes have taken over the sidewalks
Oh, and Portland. These are from a lovely stroll I took in September. Totally walkable and livable ImageImageImageImage
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26 Nov
In early 2020, San Francisco’s progressive D.A. said drug dealing was a “victimless crime,” theft resulted from inequality, & the police were too militarized.

Today, SF is 400 cops short of the minimum, 700/year die from drugs, & looting is commonplace.

wsj.com/articles/san-f…
There has been a lot of gas-lightening of SF residents by highly ideological activists seeking to deny the obvious increase in crime. Often they show graphs of crime in the aggregate, inappropriately conflating homicides, robbery, & shoplifting, which is deliberately misleading.
Some crimes declined due to covid, and many of them, like car break-ins, are today above 2019 numbers, while others, like shoplifting show radically lower arrests per reports, which follows directly from the D.A.’s pledge to reduce prosecutions.

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