Originally Posted by ltppowell
Originally Posted by antlers
Adult alcohol and drug abuse is a lot more of a public health problem than it is a law enforcement matter. Clearly.


No, they're problems for the public in general. They murder the public, they run over the public they steal from the public, etc.

Not a cop alive doesn't wish that the "public health" guy would handle any of that.

The problem is that the "public health" guy is a myth, except on paper.


Cops do all those things, too. Point is it's an erroneous conflation which obscures the root cause. It's not law enforcement nor public health services.

Your taxes are too high, which allows people who couldn't feed themselves to live. Government is so large and so overreaching bit obscures every problem.

Living in a world of G17s and 700s, wishing for P7s and 202s