Posted on 02/07/2020 6:57:57 AM PST by lowbridge
City police will begin distributing “harm reduction kits,” including clean syringes and glass pipes, with hopes of keeping those battling drug addiction alive until they are able to commit to seek treatment.
Police Chief Otoniel Reyes said officers often seize and discard needles and pipes, among other paraphernalia, when making an arrest.
But often times, once people are released from custody, they rush to use, driven by addiction — and use unsafe or unfamiliar equipment, placing at them at greater risk of overdosing or contracting HIV.
“While many think that the primary responsibility of police is to protect and enforce the laws, for us in New Haven, the primary responsibility is the protection and the preservation of life. Although there are many situations where we have to arrest, we want our people to know that want to we support every individual’s road to recovery,” said Reyes. “This epidemic is complicated. This affects every facet of our community. And the New Haven Police Department cares deeply about every member of its community.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...
That should do it. Who’s got the Brilliant! guy meme?
WOW. Words fail.
I think sometimes the safety neet needs to have a few holes in it. It’s a shame society spends so much time and resources trying to save people who are self-destructive.
New Haven. University town.
Soon to have poop all over sidewalks.
Coming soon to a socialist utopia near you, thousands of used hypodermic needles littering the streets.
I guess that providing hookers to sex addicts will be next.
Sorry, but that’s just enabling.
Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they seek help and making their addiction easier for them is not going to achieve that.
"City police, acting as accessories to crime, will begin distributing “harm reduction kits...”
Or guns and masks to serial bank robbers
Why?
How dumb. How insulting to the law abiding taxpayer to squander their money this way and further endanger them by enabling druggies.
Social justice warriors out of control.
Better to just bury them.
What’s next?
Condoms for RAPISTS?.................
Virtue signalling of the most idiotic order. If you care about these addicts, you’d make it HARDER for them to use, not easier. Grab a dictionary and look up “enablement.”
This is unfair to alcoholics.
The police should hand out free vodka .
Just think how much money gets spent on salaries, benefits and pensions for people who are worth a billion times less (in terms of value to society) than the average street bum.
That’s the real crime here. That these “public servants” are living like Public Royalty while doing such “work” (quote, unquote) as this.
Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven.
Yes, let’s keep them alive so they can continue to prey on society.
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