It's 8 AM: Do you know where your drug dealer is? According to a couple of 911 callers, try the 1600 block of West Jonquil. Right by Gale Elementary School. Or as the long-time, local residents call it, the Juneway Jungle.
Update - 10:50 AM: If you're around Kevin O'Neil's corner at Farwell and Greenview, you usually can find some sort of narcotics sales. According to this 10:50 AM, 911 call. Today's subject is a male/black, wearing a gray hoodie. He was witnessed to be selling drugs and counting money. Nothing further.
3 comments:
Well every one thinks that price supports for smugglers is a good idea.
Every one thinks that drug dealers shouldn't card their customers (unlike their attitude about liquor and tobacco).
What did you expect?
Milton Friedman said drug prohibition was socialism for criminals. What do you think?
Stuck on stupid and complaining about the results?
Too bad this corner hasn't changed. Years ago I had a student that I worked hard with but I failed. He was on probation and I told him if I saw him on the corner I would hit his PO on my cell ASP Dont worry I'm straight. A couple days later I was driving by the corner and saw him and honked my horn, He didn't come to my car....his messenger did and I told him to tell the student I on the phone with your PO right now.
He was remanded but for how long and what good did it do. He is back on the corner again. I'm glad I am not working with him anymore as you see potential but it has been locked with an unbreakable code
Much of the battle rests in taking away the incentive to illegally sell controlled substances. If supply was not an issue and education applied, then the demand would drop with no need for street sales.
The price to mess yourself up would drop at an all time low. However, some people would figure out how to use responsibly and another regulated industry was born. Hopefully, law enforcement would be prepared to arrest users, who drive.
Our Government wants to play big brother. It wants to dictate what is good for us, yet, it tolerates alcoholism, tobacco cancer, and other vices. Shortsighted people will continue to do foolish things to their bodies for the sake of a binge or perpetual drug induced euphoria.
If addicts don't value life, then we need to figure out how to prove to them that the quality of life is worth the effort. If not, then we need to reconsider whether we are reasonably committed to helping the mentally ill.
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