She thought she was helping a family in need; instead was enabling addiction.
Nancy was being compassionate, but, as one recovering addict asked, “How compassionate is it to let somebody just shoot dope for the rest of their lives?”
I documented the city-sanctioned drug dealing with @lwoodhouse who has been in war zones including El Salvador
I've been in war zones in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Congo since 1988.
SF's UN Plaza is scarier than any war zone except for Congo.
We saw police, which should have made us feel safe, but they didn't. Why?
Because the sanctioned nature of the open drug dealing suggests extreme levels of corruption and rot.
Why are @LondonBreed & @chesaboudin allowing a violent foreign drug mafia to operate with impunity?
I have no evidence of financial corruption, just ideological corruption
DA @chesaboudin says that the drug dealers are victims
In fact, we know for a fact that they make thousands of dollars a month that they wire to families back home
The dealers have little to worry about. San Francisco taxpayers are subsidizing their business by housing, paying, and feeding addicts, who come from around the US to enjoy the high-potency and low-cost fentanyl and meth the city provides.
I believe people, including young women and children, should be free to walk down EVERY sidewalk in every city
They cannot do so today in the city that spent decades promoting itself as the most livable and walkable cities in America
San Francisco is a national shame
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San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed last month said she said would crack down on open drug dealing.
But yesterday two undercover reporters witnessed brazen drug dealing, as well as drug use, at the city's official, and illegal, homeless "Linkage Center."
The law allows for reporters to record videos of people in public spaces and the Linkage Center is located in San Francisco’s (public) United Nations Plaza
The article includes photos of the person seen selling drugs and of city contractors observing him inspecting his money.
One of the two brave reporters who reported on San Francisco's illegal, city-funded, supervised drug dealing and drug use site is @JennyGShao
All photos of the illegal activity were pulled from her video.
Please consider following her as thanks for risking her safety.
Many blame trauma for rising addiction, homelessness & drug deaths, but child abuse has declined as all three grew worse.
While addicts are disproportionately victims of trauma, many were also “victimized” in being shielded from the consequences of their destructive behavior.
There are two things going on here
There is, on the one hand, the same increase in coddling, overprotective behavior we see in other domains of life, eg parenting, schooling
There is, on the other, a deeply ideological anti-system (eg socialist, anarchist) ideology at work
Proponents of the former turn into the latter with sufficient training, and then turn around and prey on high-empathy individuals who tend toward coddling/overprotection
In a sense, this is the central dynamic of progressivism, of the rad Left bullying milquetoast liberals
"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
"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."
Did you see this viral video of looted packages & trash stolen from trains in Los Angeles? Have no fear! Gov. @GavinNewsom helped clean it up, and now he's announced a new task force.
Because what California most needs right now is a janitor as governor & and another task force
The security guard was attacked by the pit bull after he tried to give Narcan to its owner, a man who had OD’d. The guard “sustained serious injuries” SF Library tells me. “The patron was uncooperative & argumentative.” He was cited and released. There will be no consequences.
“People do drugs, watch porn, jerk off,” said an employee of SF Library. “The crazies attack staff. There’s fights. Staff doesn’t feel safe or that management is doing enough to protect them.”
“They don’t call the police because the bums & addicts are gone by the time the cops arrive, if they even do arrive. The main issue for the employees is staff safety.”