Seattle Wants to Create ‘Safe Spaces’ for People to Take Illegal Drugs
College kids offended by Halloween costumes get their own “safe spaces,” and so do students who can’t stand the thought of having classmates who are Trump supporters.
Now, illegal drug users may be getting safe spaces, too.
In King County in Washington State, one person dies every day from a heroin overdose, according to county’s Board of Health. The plan is to end that grim string of fatalities by making it as easy as possible for people to take illegal drugs. The board voted 12-0 in favor of the sites, but the county and Seattle city officials are the ones who have to put pen to paper to actually make it happen.
In what would be the first of its kind in the U.S., the county wants to create two “safe injection sites.” Dubbed “Community Health Engagement Locations,” or CHEL, theses sites are designed to let drug users take the drugs under the supervision of medical professionals, with no judgment or limitation. A 2011 study labeled the Lancet study shows that these sites are effective.
Good news for rehabs, good news for doctors, good news for prisons due to increased crime. Lawyers will also benefit, more crime, more public defenders. Oh, more judges for more crime. Repeat criminals are a cash cow. Parasites (lawyers) like the crime, such as juicy favorite criminal illegal immigrants. This all gets charges back to the working guy and him family in many ways.
Here's a thought. Let's demand a safe place to do something "really dangerous" like shoot guns. We''l call them Community Target Engagement Locations. Publicly funded, of course. Ammo provided, of course.
crossfire; Top of the morning to you sir, I hope this second last Sunday of the first month of 2017 finds you well.
Let's see if this quote works - not a link somehow - but from a BC Gov'nt site.
VICTORIA - Some facts about illicit drug overdose deaths in 2016 in British Columbia: — The 914 people who died last year represents an almost 80-per-cent increase from 2015, when 510 people died. — The 142 people who died in December is the highest number recorded in a month.4 days ago
To put some more sobering stats in, we're not even 5 million people in the entire province, so when one considers that then the overdose numbers are even more sobering.
Years ago the provincial government began to defund the mental health system that was there and to me there's been a direct correlation between that and the rise in drug issues.
As mentioned previously I have two friends in the Vancouver PD and way, way too much of their time is spent dealing with mentally ill people - which of course they're not specifically trained to do.
We've always had folks who can't cope with life and fall through the cracks of society and I suspect we always will. Those of us who work for a living are going to be stuck with the bill of dealing with them - one way or another - correct?
The $2 question is how to deal with these folks in the most expedient AND humane way. They are after all still somebody's kin even if their dependency on a particular substance has reduced them to a former, barely unrecognizable shell of that family member.
Overall while safe injection sites have possibly reduced the overdose deaths, I don't see them reducing the problem of substance abuse in a meaningful way.
That's just one country boy's views from the sticks - but it's here too in the small city where we work in too crossfire. Overall it's really pretty depressing if you let it be.....
All the best to you in the upcoming week and do try to stay safe down there on the southern border sir.
They should consolidate the sites through the Social Services folks so that junkies could get their fixes and their welfare checks all at once and save a lot of administrative and social worker and medical professionals time. Sort of a "one stop shopping" approach to the concept of "Consolidation Of Services". But it probably won't happen because it might even save some taxpayer funds.
I have more respect for a down and out drug addict trying to get clean than an overweight, white, liberal woman who is ungrateful for the opportunities given to her.
I literally could not BELIEVE what that downtown area of Vancouver, and parts of the Lower Mainland turned into over the span of a 23 1/2 year sojourn residing N. of The Medicine Line, Dwayne.
Sure it was gritty as all get out in the very early 1970s, but still relatively safe. If one did choose to execute a midnight stagger out of a mariner's tavern, and take a nap in an alley adjacent he'd likely awaken unmolested. Fast forward to "Van Kong" 1992,...and moving around in broad daylight, you were wishing for squad strength, and small arms......some weird toxic brew of equal parts Orwell's 1984, and "A Clockwork Orange", seasoned with a dash of Apocalypse Now, topped with a Lord of the Flies garnish.
crossfire; Thanks for the reply sir, yes I know of what you speak.
We've lived here in the BC interior for 33 years now and for the most part traveled through Vancouver on our way to the BC Ferry terminals to visit family on the Island.
That changed for me 3 years ago when I started to work for a construction/development firm that does work here in the Okanagan and Vancouver.
We've done four projects there since - two within two blocks of East Hastings and one in Surrey. The fourth was a comparatively quiet and safe place - though it was just a few blocks off of the "world famous" rainbow cross walk on Davie. At least those folks weren't looking to rob us blind.....
The amount of theft off site and out of your work rigs is just ridiculous compared to here and we think we're bad nowadays compared to 30 years ago.
For instance we had not one but two entire sets of wheels stolen off our Bobcat skid steer on the Surrey project.
When one is unloading something like a 5 ton box truck you can't leave the back open or unattended for more than a couple minutes because stuff walks off. It's annoying to say the least.
That said, during daylight hours I've never felt personally unsafe crossfire - most of the druggies will avoid construction workers as a rule it seems. Even if I made eye contact or said good morning typically they'd just look down and shuffle by at an accelerated pace.
Anyway it's a problem up here for sure and certain crossfire and like I said - we're paying for it one way or another. Personally I'd like to see if an enhanced mental health program wouldn't put a dent in it.
Not saying it would for sure, but I do know that emphatically "this" isn't working currently.
Seattle has turned into an ultra liberal cesspool filled with homeless living under every overpass. Tents and trash dominate the landscape and empty eyed zombies stumble about waiting to be taken advantage of by a stronger monkey. The few times a year that I'm forced to pass through on my way to the airport I notice how much worse it is than the last time. The mayor is a fa.g the city council is dominated by an India Indian cu.nt that has openly advocated violence and mass civil disobedience.
It's my sincere hope that our once beautiful city suffers from a catastrophic event to reset the clock and cleanse the crap.
There is actually a ton of great paying jobs in Seattle. That's why the bums are there, to live off those working and making money. The city is just the middle man taking a cut and buying votes.
Google, amazon, Microsoft, Boeing and Alaska Airlines employ a lot of people in the Seattle area. There's plenty of good paying jobs but the problem is that the liberal commies make being a lazy drug addict a protected victim class.
Fu.ck Seattle....it needs a serious cleansing. I hope Trump denies federal funding to all cities that embrace illegals and homeless losers. It's become a city filled with liberals and the intolerant hate that comes with them.
We need a simple way of identifying drug addicts so that they can be arrested and detoxed on sight. Detox to be done in a cell without medical treatment. Then require these drug addicts to be tested weekly.
Seattle has been going downhill for a long time, aided and abetted by the socialist/liberal mindset that has enveloped almost all of King County and other adjacent areas to the north and south along the Sound. The only political "leadership" there is exactly this delusional. A once beautiful city shot.
What they need are mandatory "safe procreation" zones - might give a chance at controlling the production of such idiots. Can't see any early hope for Seattle.
Potland Oregon is Seattle's younger sister.... with a desire to be just like her.....
insanity Reigns in both cities.....
they want this program in WA state, they need to round up all of these druggies, give them a free monitoring site... in the guise of a POW style camp, located somewhere off of old US 10 East of Ellensburg... ( for those that don't know the area, consider that the same as 'in the middle of NOWHERE' )...
in Potland and Seattle these free loaders need to be taken off the streets and shipped out of town and put into camps...
Plenty of walk ways you see tons of tents, and extensive camping set ups, with plenty of it communal...
I've even been setting at a light in Potland, with one of these camp sites there... and in the middle of the day, you can see a tent flap open and one of these people were busy going to town sexually on another.... before the light changes, the guy finishes his business and gets off atop another guy....
Poltand is a beautiful city, but a friggin social zoo...
...the city council is dominated by an India Indian cu.nt that has openly advocated violence and mass civil disobedience.
Huh, thought she was of the Paki persuasion. Looked it up and you're correct, dot head Indian cu.nt. Someone needs to run her ass over next time she cuffs herself to others on a roadway. She and her ilk will ruin Seattle, which leads the state.
