Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma...
by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:13PM
(#26937614)
I'm from SF, I know exactly where "skid row" was, and I also worked there for about a decade. Nobody was shipped in from other parts of the city either unless you count people moving from other counties to where meth/heroin/fentanyl was easily available.
You can count the number of people on the street, maybe 1 in 15 has an alcoholic beverage, the rest are smoking meth/fenty/heroin.
SF's problems are all about drugs.
Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma...
by giantg2 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:05PM
(#26937964)
Oh, when they say Skid Row, they mean the 50 block one in LA (the most famous one). Maybe SF is different.
It seems alcohol is still the most abused substance in the homeless population. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29852450/
Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma...
by bifrost on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:23PM
(#26946063)
AFAIK "Skid Row" is a generic term, and I did reference SF's specific area.
This is basically what you'll see every few feet in San Francisco's Tenderloin district:
https://twitter.com/DTenderloine/status/1382405311009488897
(Warning, extremely graphic)
Alcohol is certainly abused, but not as publicly as Heroin/Fentanyl....
I don't doubt that opioids have contributed, but alcohol and other legal drugs are a major problem too. If this ruling is based on government caused harm, then it would require investigating the availability of alcohol due to policy too.