The day after Donald Trump's inauguration, the mayor of this northeastern blue city defied progressives with a bid to reclaim her streets from hordes of homeless zombified drug addicts.
The “war on drugs” started in 1971 and “get tough on crime” had been an agenda in the USA my whole life and did it work? It didnt. Destroying social safety nets and erroding workers rights have done more to create and maintain the homeless drug addicted population than anything else.
Militarized police and for-profit prison industry have not made our streets safer over the last 50 years, how dumb are people to think “well it hasn’t worked yet, let’s do it more!”
The “war on drugs” started in 1971 and “get tough on crime” had been an agenda in the USA my whole life and did it work? It didnt. Destroying social safety nets and erroding workers rights have done more to create and maintain the homeless drug addicted population than anything else.
Militarized police and for-profit prison industry have not made our streets safer over the last 50 years, how dumb are people to think “well it hasn’t worked yet, let’s do it more!”