„Das ist verrückt“ – Die Polizei von Windsor sagt, sie könne wegen offenem Drogenkonsum in der Öffentlichkeit nicht festgenommen werden
https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/this-is-bonkers-windsor-police-say-they-cant-arrest-for-open-drug-use-in-public
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As a society we have regressed so far.
It’s now acceptable to have open drug use.
WTF are we doing.
Even if they did arrest them, no idea where they would put them. Would basically be police officers baby sitting mentally ill people withdrawing from substances, sometimes covered in poop. Only to release them shortly after.
Only real thing I can see arresting for drug use is checking for previous warrants.
And people here tell me that we don’t have a drug addiction and related crime crisis in Canada
Hard drug use has not been decriminalized as far as I’m aware.
cant have a beer in a park
So what are our basic social governance concepts?Is it to respect the free choice of individualism and believe that it will bring the greatest benefits, or to have a good, reasonable and stable social order as the highest goal?
I work in Calgary and idk if police can’t arrest these users but I do know they don’t arrest them. Sometimes I walk down Stephen ave around 6am to grab a coffee before work and it’s littered with homeless and drug users with used paraphernalia all around them. I have seen cops standing 50 feet away having coffee in a group just completely ignoring it.
Can’t be mean to criminals. Can’t be mean to public drug use. Can’t be mean to the mentally ill. Can’t be mean to foreigners who should very well be deported. All of which are a drain on society of those who are and can contribute.
Then we punish those who finally snap because what the actual fuck are people supposed to do?
You know how much a rubber band hurts when you stretch it a little versus stretching it a lot? We’re stretching the public contract rubber band pretty fucking far right now.
Elbows Up
I live in Windsor, and I’m sure other cities are like it, but for a long strip of the downtown core and a bit going east and west from there, you see people straight up using on the streets, shitting on the sidewalks, passed or passing out in broad daylight, lighting fires to keep warm despite those fires being close to other people’s homes. Even 5 years ago you wouldn’t see it THIS bad, maybe the odd person, but it’s been ridiculous.
Time to make sanitariums great again
So instead of jumping on the hate train like everyone else, I want to ask, what is the mechanism that makes them able to selectively enforce this? Is it the city?
Im sure if the cops moved the encampment to the councilors front lawns then maybe something would get done.
So this is how this goes. If an officer can arrest for hard drug use, they will make the arrest and then write the report. They now have to prove how they know the substance was hard drugs. And unfortunately, that requires them to submit a sample to the Center of Forensic Science to test and prove what the substance is. Defense lawyers will claim their clients were smoking anything but hard drugs. The CFS does not have the resources to process the amount of samples they would get.
This is how is works in Ontario with our new open consumption law.
Ah so there BC now, Enjoy.
IMO children seeing a junkie shoot up is just as bad, maybe worse, than witnessing indecent exposure, so this really pisses me off.
Involuntary insane asylums is what is needed to solve this problem. No more holding drug addicts hands, proving “safe drug dens” across school and child care centres. It’s a net negative on society to have addicts run a muck. Taking over public transit, libraries, parks. All while everyday law abiding citizens have to skirt, skip and doge, areas we pay taxes for. We let a minority take advantage of what good we have because god forbid they’re victimized. Round them up and get them help, because they won’t do it themselves.
Doug Fords Ontario. Open for business. And drug addicts.
.Public space isn’t a free-for-all. When people are openly using drugs on sidewalks, in parks, or on transit, it stops being a personal issue and becomes everyone else’s problem—safety, sanitation, and basic livability all take a hit.
If there’s no enforcement, there’s no line. Arrest authority isn’t about moralizing—it’s about having a hard stop when behavior crosses into public harm.
At some point, we have to make a call as to who public space is for. Right now, in a lot of places, it feels like the answer is: whoever ignores the rules.
Vancouver: First time?
Well you closed down all the supervised consumption sites, where do you expect homeless drug users to use? Believe it or not they’re not going to say „well I don’t have anywhere to use drugs I might see well just get clean.“
The paradox of tolerance.
People spark up glass pipes in hospitals now without hassle.
However, if you light a cigarette (which are perfectly legal), and you’ll get a fine.
How did our country get so stupid?
Elbows up!!!!