And the costs to businesses are high too: + Private security at ~$200/hour (I've seen private security in almost every office and maybe 20% of retail brands) + Property damage, theft, insurance + Lost retail business due to consumers preferring online ordering (16/x)
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My read - this is political and this is philosophical: + We believe in the rights of drug users to use + We have normalized property theft to the point where it's practically government-sanctioned looting + We do not believe selling to an addict is criminal (17/x)
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I personally believe that adults should be allowed to use some recreational drugs - but only in a responsible way that does no harm to others. That is not what we have here. We have severely ill individuals landing here, being preyed upon, and dying. By the hundreds. (18/x)
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We are turning a blind eye. We rationalize the surge in ODs by believing they are self-inflicted. Meanwhile, we rationalize the lack of prosecution by saying addiction is a disease. So which is it? A disease or a choice? (19/x)
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We as a city need to have a POV on this. + If a disease, then we should be prosecuting the dealers for preying on the sick & weak. + If a choice, then we need to prosecute the behavior associated with drug use (e.g., property crime) (20/x)
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Replying to @michelletandler
Prosecute the property crime, not the victimless drug use or sales.
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I see you said "victimless drug use" and I know 500+ victims in San Francisco in 2020 alone who would beg to differ. Are you advocating we do nothing to combat the violence and lawlessness in the streets downtown? Even 3rd world countries don't tolerate the behavior we deal with.
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Listen - I get it. I'm not arguing that we should arrest people for dealing with addictions. But doing nothing is not an option - we need to start somewhere. This
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This drug war has failed, and it was never for honest good or moral reasons to start with. It's the experiment that poses a existential risk and we must stop trying.pic.twitter.com/UFrxev8PD9
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Again: we are all in agreement here that criminalizing drug use is not an appropriate approach. Our current approach of turning a blind eye to the drug dealers responsible for hundreds of deaths this year is also not an appropriate strategy.
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It's disengenuous to claim that we are turning a blind eye to something that is consuming more than a quarter of the efforts of our @SFDAOffice , hear @chesaboudin it's not that were not trying it's that it doesn't work.https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1285817800150282241?s=20 …
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