More, fasterhttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/more-faster.phpFed up residents sue the City of San Francisco, the U.K. Daily Mail reports.
Five anonymous plaintiffs and three businesses accused officials of turning their district into a drug ‘containment zone’, where ‘drug dealers brazenly sell narcotics on the streets’.
From the lawsuit,
One of the anonymous claimants, described as an immigrant housekeeper with two children, said she often encounters drug dealers and ‘users openly injecting or smoking narcotics and people lying on the street who appear unconscious or dead’.
A reasonable request,
They are not looking for a payout, but want a preliminary injunction that stops the city from distributing drug paraphernalia near their homes and businesses.
Because of the brevity of the article and "Fair Use", I won't quote the City of SF's arrogant callous response, but it amounts to, "We think "needle exchange" works and your neighborhood is taking it for the team. How exactly the City of SF imagines that druggies dealing, shooting up, and littering the streets with their unconscious, and occasionally dying, bodies is "needle exchanges" "working" eludes me.
How "needle exchange" works in activists and Prog pols' fantasies: addict turns in a used needle; addict receives a clean needle; addict saves used needle; rinse and repeat. It takes activist-Prog stupidity to believe this is what would happen.
How "needle exchange" "works" in real life: druggie rocks up and demands a needle; druggie receives a clean needle; druggie uses the needle and drops it wherever druggie used it; needle exchange people look through nearby streets and parks and find and retrieve many, not all, of the used needles; rinse and repeat. Utterly predictable to anyone willing to think about it for a few seconds.
