She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl. She had no idea what she would face on the streets of San Francisco (1 Viewer)

[Schism]

She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl. She had no idea what she would face on the streets of San Francisco

She quit her job, gave up her apartment and packed her almost entirely purple wardrobe in boxes. To save her daughter’s life, Laurie Steves gave up her own.
She left a suburb of Seattle early on the morning of May 13, heading south in her beat-up red Chevy Impala, its odometer pushing 140,000 miles. She had one aim: reaching San Francisco to save Jessica DiDia, the 34-year-old daughter she hadn’t seen in nine years.
The spunky little girl with the huge smile and love of the limelight was long gone. Laurie didn’t know much about Jessica’s life now, but she knew she was homeless in the Tenderloin and addicted to fentanyl and had escaped death from overdosing many times with a lucky shot of Narcan.

People need to read this. San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle have lost the battle.

This is the ugly reality of "harm reduction", soft on crime, and enabling addicts to remain addicted.

The crime here is Democrat Party policy and bleeding heart liberals.

“I’m stepping over people on the sidewalk who have needles in their legs, and people are puking on the street,” she said. “It was a horrible experience, and to know my daughter is living that life, and all they’re doing is handing out tents for them to get high in instead of getting the dealers off the streets — I was shocked.”

How sad is that?

 

[Mr Person]

Thank God there aren't any addicts in red states. And someone was shocked, so we can blame the poopy libruls for it all, focusing on SF for the third time in 24h.

 

[Schism]

Thank God there aren't any addicts in red states. And someone was shocked, so we can blame the poopy libruls for it all, focusing on SF for the third time in 24h.

I'll put you down for "who cares?"

Thanks for stopping in to ignore the problem.

 

[eohrnberger]

She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl. She had no idea what she would face on the streets of San Francisco


People need to read this. San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle have lost the battle.

This is the ugly reality of "harm reduction", soft on crime, and enabling addicts to remain addicted.

The crime here is Democrat Party policy and bleeding heart liberals.



How sad is that?

Yeah, heard that San Francisco was a 'pretty shitty' place.

28 San Francisco Human Feces Map

The feces issue has. I will say there is more feces on the. Human Feces In S F Streets Worsening 28 315 Complaints ...

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Sorry to hear about fentany addiction facilitated and enabled by progressive public policies, but no surprise there.

 

[TheParser]

Oh, yes, what has happened to Frisco is heartbreaking.

To be fair, however, what has happened to most American cities since the 1960s is heartbreaking.

What the woke Dems are doing to this country is, IMHO, unpatriotic.

*****

Here in Los Angeles, the cops apprehended a few of those looters.

What happened?

They were immediately released, of course. No bail required.

Of course, those dear sweet young gentlemen will report to court as scheduled.

 

[less right]

Fentanyl is a rising problem in this country. Only the ill informed or blindly partisan try to make this an issue faced mostly by cities.

In 2019, rates of overdose deaths were higher in rural counties than in urban counties in five states.

● Although the national age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in 2019 was higher in urban counties than in rural counties, for five states (California, Connecticut, North Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia), rates were higher in rural counties than in urban counties (Figure 2).
● Rates were higher in urban counties than in rural counties for 19 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
● Urban and rural rates were statistically similar in all remaining states and jurisdictions that have both urban and rural counties

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db403-H.pdf

 

[HonestJoe]

People need to read this. San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle have lost the battle.

This is the ugly reality of "harm reduction", soft on crime, and enabling addicts to remain addicted.

The crime here is Democrat Party policy and bleeding heart liberals.

Exactly what policies are you proposing to address the situation? There are lots of ideas but most of them involve spending money and making controversial decisions, something few politicians of any shade are willing to commit to because they know it would loose them votes. It's certainly true that simply using other people's suffering as a tool for a partisan political attacks won't solve anything.

 

[Outlook]

Thank God there aren't any addicts in red states. And someone was shocked, so we can blame the poopy libruls for it all, focusing on SF for the third time in 24h.

Drug problem in every state. Wonder why?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...-s-southern-border-rise-dramatically-n1272676

Let's not focus on SF. Pick a city. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, NYC, St. Louis, LA, Philly.
What do all these cities have in common? Democrat run from top to bottom.