jordanlund, 3 months ago Police issued standard citations and a business card with the number to call and instructions to call the number to get the $100 ticket waived. Out of 16,000 tickets, less than 150 people called. We didn’t need to spend millions on treatment centers for < 150 people. The folks supporting 110 argue more people would have called if we had given them “special” tickets. There’s absolutely no evidence for that. So what did the 16,000 people actually DO? Needle exchanges, methadone, nalaxone. All the things that let them keep using instead of getting clean.
Police issued standard citations and a business card with the number to call and instructions to call the number to get the $100 ticket waived.
Out of 16,000 tickets, less than 150 people called.
We didn’t need to spend millions on treatment centers for < 150 people.
The folks supporting 110 argue more people would have called if we had given them “special” tickets. There’s absolutely no evidence for that.
So what did the 16,000 people actually DO?
Needle exchanges, methadone, nalaxone. All the things that let them keep using instead of getting clean.