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San Francisco population approx 850,000
Needles given out free each month approx 400,000
Used needles collected each month approx 250,000
The rest wind up laying in the streets with other garbage and human feces
City Hall hands out 4.45 million syringes each year, says report

When you allow IV drug users to live on your streets, all of them need to find ways to pay for their drugs. Burglary is up over 1,000% over the last 5 years, and less than 1% of the cases resulted in a prosecution. There were over 31,000 car break ins alone.

It's all out there with a simple Google search.

 

It's been the same since at least Jesus' time. The people were given a choice between sparing a criminal, Barabbus, or sparing Jesus. They chose Barabbus.

Barabbas - Wikipedia

 

But if you don’t give them free needles then they’ll reuse and share needles and spread disease and AIDS. They’ll even resharpen old needles over and over.

 

At this point, honestly, I am absolutely out of all sympathy for any person who "finds" themselves addicted to heroin or cocaine or crack or meth etc etc.
There's simply no excuse whatsoever to be in that position in the first place. The very first moment a person gets high is a choice. Not a mistake or an accident or bad judgment. The consequences of that choice are tough and painful and bad, but that's just what happens to people who choose to use drugs.

 

But we pay the medical bills if they get AIDS or hepatitis or whatever from dirty needles.
(Ideally they would dip the new needles in ricin or something)

 

What so are the crooks actually complaining that its an unfair police tactic? well boo hoo, as the saying goes "crime doesn't pay"

 

We're still paying for their bills anyway.

 

People out in Trump-land (they were likely Bush voters then) in central PA used to mob onto slow trains and break into containers and throw stuff off for comrades following in vehicles. I've helped railroad cops shut the doors on them when they'd roll into Harrisburg on a time-freight that needed to keep going regardless.

One unlucky idiot got boxes of rubber gloves, those likely headed to a flea market. That trailer was about one third empty, steps of boxes going up, must have been pretty desperate to keep unloading them.

How many people in this thread go to flea markets and buy amazingly cheap stuff and choose not to think about where it came from? And are on here crowing about how immoral other people are?

I had trains robbed while going through totally whitebread areas, at night, during a hurricane. And in places like Philthydelphia and Newark and Long Beach.

The unsaid thing in that article, and likely something the reporter and the residents don't know, is that railroads are self-insured. That's why NS is working on it like they are. Nothing personal, just business.

Part of it is self-inflicted; no one with any money wants to live near a noisy polluting freight yard with lots of truck traffic, so now those yards are nearly all sitting in low-end places. Used to be good-paying factories near a lot of them, those are in China now.

Consequences.

 

So what? Would my taxes go down if we weren’t ?

Nope.

 

I hope that's sarcasm.