{"id":392323,"date":"2022-01-11T05:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-let-nyc-become-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:18:33","slug":"dont-let-nyc-become-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-let-nyc-become-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don\u2019t let NYC become San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Don\u2019t let NYC become San Francisco<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>This recovering addict has some advice for our new mayor: Don\u2019t let New York City become San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Mayor London Breed \u2014 the liberal leader of the country\u2019s most liberal metropolis \u2014 recently declared a state of emergency to combat the heartbreaking opioid crisis in the city\u2019s Tenderloin neighborhood. Tenderloin is the hardest-hit area in a city that, with fewer than 900,000 residents, suffered more than 700 drug deaths last year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite reservations about criminalizing addicts, many of whom are homeless, San Francisco\u2019s Board of Supervisors <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved the declaration. The convincing, 8-2 confirmation vote speaks volumes; after all, this is the same city whose leaders are so progressively nonsensical they tried to redesignate high schools named for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for flunking their woke historical purity tests.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-276.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Opioid crisis in San Francisco \" class=\"wp-image-20787302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-276.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-276.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-276.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The national opioid crisis escalated, creating a state of emergency in the Tenderloin district. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As both an addict and a progressive, I understand the hesitancy to employ strict policing measures to combat drug addiction. Arresting an addict might further hinder his chances of recovery, since he then has a criminal record atop an addiction problem.<\/p>\n<p>But I understand that a mayor must protect the safety and public health of all constituents. Because addicts don\u2019t just abuse substances \u2014 they also abuse fellow citizens to feed an unquenchable, expensive illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is necessary . . . to reverse some of the deaths from overdoses and the assaults and attacks happening in this community,\u201d said Breed. \u201cWhen people walk down the streets of San Francisco, they should feel safe. They shouldn\u2019t have to look over their shoulders; they shouldn\u2019t have to be punched in the face randomly; they shouldn\u2019t have to see someone sticking a needle in various parts of their body.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-278.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682\" alt=\"Vending machine\" class=\"wp-image-20787307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-278.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-278.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-278.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-278.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>New York city health officials plan to install 10 vending machines that dispense clean needles and Naloxone.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Caracole<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s warning signs are already flashing red in New York. Between March 2020 and March 2021, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/an-epidemic-inside-of-a-pandemic--drug-overdose-deaths-spike-amid-covid-19-crisis\">almost 2,250 NYC residents\u00a0died from opioids alone<\/a>. This was a horrific 40% spike from the previous 12-month period and the deadliest yearlong stretch in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>While this undoubtedly partly reflects the mental-health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reason is less important than our new reality: New York has markedly more narcotics addicts than just a few years ago. It\u2019s so bad the city is introducing vending machines to dispense the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The similarities to San Fran are stark. In September, drug users shot up in the open right on midtown Manhattan streets. This past spring, Washington Square Park descended to drug-den status as Mayor Bill de Blasio shrugged his oh-so-tolerant shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>New York also is experiencing outlandish, violent drug-related incidents. Last year, a man carrying drugs randomly punched a police officer \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/bronx-cop-assaulted-40th-precinct-nypd-officer-punched-in-face-sucker\/10324858\/\">right outside a Bronx police station<\/a>.\u00a0Just last month in Queens, a man high on a \u201ccontrolled substance\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.informnny.com\/news\/crime\/man-allegedly-stabs-girlfriend-to-death-with-sword-in-queens-body-found-in-closet-sources\/amp\/\">murdered his girlfriend with a sword<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point: Many addicts are desperate and therefore unpredictable and dangerous. Unlike cancer or heart disease, addiction is an illness whose symptoms include debauchery and chaos, including potentially criminal acts.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s failure shows the limits of hands-off progressive policies, which can ruin neighborhoods one broken window \u2014 or, as Breed put it, one random punch in the face \u2014 at a time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-277.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"London Breed\" class=\"wp-image-20787306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-277.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-277.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-277.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor of San Francisco London Breed wants to reduce the number of overdose deaths and crime in the Tenderloin neighborhood.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While having <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> workers coax addicts toward rehabilitation is ideal, I speak from experience when I say such efforts take time. There\u2019s a wide gap between a perfect world and the real one. San Francisco is succumbing to the reality that its streets must be cleaned up \u2014 even if that means jailing a nonviolent drug user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that San Francisco is a compassionate city,\u201d Breed said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not a city where anything goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right. Late, but right.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"NY Mayor Eric Adams\" class=\"wp-image-20787308\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/dale-protect-nyc-280.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>There are high hopes for what New York Mayor Eric Adams can do for the city. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Roca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mayor Adams: Your candidacy represented a refreshing pivot from the progressive-at-all-costs policies of your predecessor. There\u2019s a reason de Blasio left office with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/10\/de-blasio-eyes-governorship-despite-incredibly-unpopularity.html\">approval ratings in the 20s<\/a>. And there\u2019s a reason New Yorkers elected you to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable people don\u2019t want to eliminate gifted and talented education programs; they realize life is meritocratic. Nor do they want police to sit back and do nothing as homicide rates soar.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>And they don\u2019t want addicts, however sad their sickness, shooting up on streets, mugging passersby or committing other crazed acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams, despite cries from the wokerati, during the primaries you opposed decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs. Keeping this promise will help both the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> public and addicts themselves because the longer an addict is enabled the shorter his route to potentially serious criminality \u2014 or even death.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re a city of laws, Mr. Mayor. It\u2019s time someone leads like it. Don\u2019t make New York the new San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Christopher Dale is a New York writer with an addiction-recovery book pending publication. Twitter: @ChrisDaleWriter<\/em><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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