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2021-10-17 Home Front: Politix
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Albany pols, NYPD order cops to do nothing as drug addicts shoot up — it’ll be the death of neighborhoods
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[FoxNews] NYC Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill last week decriminalizing the possession or sale of heroin needles.
The measure, effective Oct. 7, originated in New York City, sponsored by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, D-Bronx, and was signed into law by Gov. Hochul last week in Manhattan.
"This is outrageous," railed real estate executive William Abramson, who represents residential and commercial clients around the city, many of whom have complained to him about addicts found whacked out in their stoops and doorways.
"Once again, quality of life in New York City continues to deteriorate because of laws that do not consider the residents and businesses of the city. We all agree that something needs to be done to help addicts. But letting them shoot up on the streets does not help anyone. This is bad for everyone."
Drug deaths across the city are skyrocketing. The Centers for Disease Control reports 2,243 people died from drug overdoses in New York City for the 12-month period that ended March 31 — a staggering 36 percent increase in overdose deaths from the year before.
The NYPD decree also tells cops that "it is no longer a violation of law for an individual to possess a hypodermic needle, even when it did not come from a pharmacy or a needle exchange program."
In other words: junkies are free to score needles on the black market, or to share them with other addicts, a risky behavior which creates added dangers for both the user and the wider community.
Gov. Hochul's drug-war surrender will be the death of NY neighborhoods
[NYPOST] Oct. 7, 2021, will go down in history as the day that New York surrendered in the war on drugs. Not a shot was fired, except for the heroin or meth shot into the vein of a drug addict on the streets of Midtown, the South Bronx or Harlem.Gov. Hochul last week signed into law a bill pushed by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) and backed overwhelmingly by the city’s Democratic delegation to the Legislature. It decriminalizes the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes by addicts to inject drugs.
Touted as a move to reduce overdose deaths, it will instead be the death of downtowns and residential neighborhoods across the Empire State.
One result: NYPD cops are now under orders to let addicts freely shoot drugs and share needles. The Post had already reported recently on how junkies have overrun parks and other public spaces from Washington Square through Midtown to The Bronx. Hochul & Co. just guaranteed that it’ll grow worse.
"Having drug addicts, a frightful condition, freely injecting drugs and passing out in public is not tenable," warns Barbara Blair of the Garment District Alliance of the "preposterous" new law, explaining rightly that addicts and the mentally ill should be "placed in high-quality settings, institutional settings, if necessary, where they get the shelter, food and care."
IV use of illegal substances is inherently unhealthy and dangerous. Addicts who share needles expose themselves and others to HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne infections.
"It was passed under the guise of compassion, but it’s one of the least compassionate bills I’ve seen come across the Legislature in a long time. There is nothing compassionate about telling people to keep doing something that is going to kill them," state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island) told The Post. Needle sharing "contravenes any logical and reasonable science based upon public-health standards."
Assaults, break-ins and robberies will soar as new addicts join the growing army of drugged zombies inhabiting once-vibrant city streets. City overdose deaths already spiked 36 percent for the year ending March 31; this law will send them higher, not lower as backers imagine.
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