"It can’t be that mentally ill people sometimes need to be forced to enter in-patient care. That image ... is too brutal for the public. Much better to let the homeless die slower deaths in public, overdosing on the sidewalk." — @NellieBowles @bariweiss
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"It can’t be about drugs, either. It can’t have anything to do with new, stronger meth circulating in homeless encampments. If that were the case, it would mean drug dealers needed to be arrested, and that’s a big no-no....
"Drug dealers are often victims themselves, as San Francisco’s District Attorney said in a town hall. Drug dealers need mindfulness training or meditation apps. Progressive district attorneys argue that jail doesn’t even work anyway."
"At Brianna Kupfer’s memorial yesterday in Los Angeles, a crowd of more than one hundred stood in silence outside the upscale Croft House furniture store. In the center, a clutch of young women were sobbing and putting posters on the glass front of the store."
“These kinds of things are happening more and more. We’ve been abandoned. He shouldn’t have been out. And he’s not alone,” a man said into the mic
“We have to hold our politicians accountable.”
“The streets have gotten tougher,” another man said into the mic.
“We have to hold our politicians accountable.”
“The streets have gotten tougher,” another man said into the mic.
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