Why is this specific topic, DRUG USE ON PUBLIC TRANSIT, such a thing for you? You have mentioned it several times, and it's VERY specific. If I'm remembering correctly, you have said you don't even often take public transit.
So, why so specific about WHERE the drug use is? Surely if they are doing it there they are doing it in other public areas. I am not being critical of you here. I just don't understand. Perhaps this is an Edmonton thing that I just don't get.
It's just something I choose to post about. A lot of drug use leads to crime. I think open drug use shouldn't be tolerated as it is. The guy in the video shouldn't be allowed to use the train if he's doing drugs on it. It wasn't designed for that purpose.
The people down voting this have likely never ridden on public transit. I took city buses all through high school. I saw drive by shootings, drug use, alcohol use and all kinds of crazy homeless people. The problem Greg is pointing out is not unique to Edmonton. It is a byproduct of a larger movement that portrays cops as criminals, criminals as victims and has made the greater society far more unsafe over the past few years.
Drug decriminalization and the treatment of addiction as a health issue, not a criminal one.
Subsidized housing, rent controls and the conversion of now-empty office buildings into homes.
Job or income guarantee.
Security on the metro will just keep moving the homeless into other parts of the city, I remember how unhappy you were at them sleeping in the park.
How’s that worked so far in the places that defunded the police? How’s Oregon doing with their test case? Last I checked, Portland topped their all-time murder total in 2021. Additionally opioid overdoses in Oregon increased in 2021 substantially in spite of decriminalization. Is that the progressive solution you have so eloquently lain before us?
The people down voting this have likely never ridden on public transit. I took city buses all through high school. I saw drive by shootings, drug use, alcohol use and all kinds of crazy homeless people. The problem Greg is pointing out is not unique to Edmonton. It is a byproduct of a larger movement that portrays cops as criminals, criminals as victims and has made the greater society far more unsafe over the past few years.
It sucks that your parents were poor. It sucks that you are too impressionable and fell for the the leftist media is the reason for all my problems pitch.
In November 2020, Oregonians voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize possession of a small amount of hard drugs. Sixteen months in, the results paint a picture of failure.
