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againblahisnothere t1_iug05yw wrote

Reply to comment by ctindel in NYC’s new subway crime crackdown is underway but NYers are not convinced it will work by PichuLovy

It’s because they can’t. This is exactly what the DiBlasio administration wanted…https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dy8k97/how-new-york-quietly-ended-its-street-drug-war

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iuggs6w wrote

It's kind of amazing that De Blasio and others in the party believe that normalizing severe drug abuse is somehow a progressive policy.

In reality, they are implementing policies to bring back the 1800s, when as much as 1 out of 200 people in the US was addicted to an opioid. Then it took us almost a century (with drug trades by colonial powers, opium wars and more) to realize the damage such drug abuse can cause to a society.

There's a valid point on not criminalizing weed and such that I strongly agree with.

However, I disagree with the extreme we have today: allowing severe drug abuse to the point of causing damage to our society (which we are just starting to witness) is anything but progressive. This is regressive as fuck (1800s kind of regressive).

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Grass8989 t1_iugi2rc wrote

Not wanting to normalize hardcore drug use has now become a “right wing” ideology.

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wherearemypaaants t1_iugms80 wrote

The point is that severe drug addiction is not the purview of the police and arresting people for low level drug crimes is an enormous waste of your tax dollars and police resources.

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ctindel t1_iug1f4d wrote

#sad

I can’t wait to leave this crumbling city.

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againblahisnothere t1_iug2jz9 wrote

I hope you find your new home and are happy. No sarcasm.

I’m sticking it out in hopes it will get better.

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molasses_and_asses t1_iuisjr6 wrote

"I’m sticking it out in hopes it will get better." They're not going to until people start demanding better. That's why elections matter.

People should want the place they've lived their whole lives and had roots to be livable.

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ctindel t1_iug354u wrote

I still gotta convince my wife to leave. She grew up here so it’s not going well so far.

I don’t know if it will make me happy but I’ll have more money and won’t be picking up needles from my stoop. No mortgage and a shitload less in taxes opens up a lot of options to come back to the city for long weekends and avail ourselves of cultural options.

Would probably just keep the house here and rent it out so it’s not like a 1-way door; if we hate it we could always come back.

I too would like to see it get better but I think wfh is the game changer here. More and more businesses and people will leave and the city will continue a downward slide, that’s my prediction anyway.

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againblahisnothere t1_iug6bet wrote

I grew up here. It’s hard to leave family- it’s why I don’t see myself leaving anytime soon.

Are you planning on having kids? I feel like that could be a good reason to leave. I can’t imagine having kids and worrying about their safety. I wouldn’t be ok with them seeing open drug use.

And yeah you can always come back if you don’t like it.

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ctindel t1_iug7es6 wrote

I grew up in CA and had no problem leaving family. We already have 4 kids, she doesn’t want to leave because she likes the schools they’re in for now. Depending on what happens when they have to do the middle school application bullshit might change her mind, or not who knows. Most people are just afraid to start fresh and she’s one of them, I’ve always been unusual in my ability to just up and go where life’s opportunities are and cut losses when things aren’t as good as they used to be.

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