I'm all for this, but we need a different type of person to be a cop ultimately. A lot of cops see something like this and just stop doing there job altogether. I frequently ask cops in my city wtf they're doing when parked next to 20 people doing meth and they blame the democratic mayor almost every time.
hsbauauvhabzb•1h ago
You often see a cop parked next to 20 people doing meth?
mc32•1h ago
20 might be hyperbola but in SF cops ignore lots of drug use on the streets. They used to care up until the end of the Brown mayorship. Once Newsom and the new wave of progressives took control over the city they began pulling back from enforcement incrementally —it peaked with Breed and is now slightly retrenching but very very slowly.
Willy might have been corrupt but at least he took care of crime meaningfully.
hsbauauvhabzb•54m ago
Yeah! Lock up the meth heads, that’ll fix crime!
mc32•45m ago
Slippery slope. They can start tightening things down and make it unacceptable lawfully as well as socially.
Portugal after experimenting with permissiveness is tightening down. We can do it too and save people from perdition.
tiagod•25m ago
Portugal is not tightening it down based on data, but based on perceptions. A shift to populism reverting previous progressive changes proves nothing.
Also, we didn't experiment with permissiveness, we fixed a heroin crisis that was completely out of control. You have no idea how bad it got before we stopped throwing addicts in jail and started providing them with rehab.
Source: I've lived here all my life.
bitlax•26m ago
It literally does and it's good for the meth heads.
throw9394944•57m ago
Well, meth people are pretty fragile (no joke). If they die of overdose under your watch, you are in tons of troubles. Any normal person would refuse to deal with such risk.
Maybe meth people should become cops! And we could call Antifa to fight meth cops!
Simon_O_Rourke•1h ago
There's never a problem so bad that a Californian police officer can't make it worse.
dang•1h ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
TechDebtDevin•1h ago
hsbauauvhabzb•1h ago
mc32•1h ago
Willy might have been corrupt but at least he took care of crime meaningfully.
hsbauauvhabzb•54m ago
mc32•45m ago
Portugal after experimenting with permissiveness is tightening down. We can do it too and save people from perdition.
tiagod•25m ago
Also, we didn't experiment with permissiveness, we fixed a heroin crisis that was completely out of control. You have no idea how bad it got before we stopped throwing addicts in jail and started providing them with rehab.
Source: I've lived here all my life.
bitlax•26m ago
throw9394944•57m ago
Maybe meth people should become cops! And we could call Antifa to fight meth cops!