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Druggie squatters and shiftless cops? It sounds like your area has a cultural issue that you might want to work with neighbors and community officials to rectif

• slothtrop 5y ago
  Some cities are trafficking hubs. Drugs are everywhere. Effective deterrents for would-be users might include better support networks and opportunities both for work and social/active engagement, in a limited sense. Most would occupy varied low-income areas and consequently there develops microcultures of poverty, which includes drug abuse, but they have easy access to the rest of the city - they meander to those areas they want to squat. Breaking up these places geographically helps (as opposed to having large "projects"), but here again it's not a silver bullet. There's little the community can do legally, voluntarily and with few funds, to fight off a drug epidemic. If it were so easy this would have been done many times over. The frequent violent altercations (including stabbings) leaves people afraid of users as well.
  • bsanr2 5y ago
    The answer has always been investment, but of course what is far more important is eking out that last 20 points for Bradyn's SAT score.
    • slothtrop 5y ago
      Throwing money at the problem is naive unless it's well thought-out.
      • bsanr2 5y ago
        Throwing money at the problem is exactly what rich people do with their problems and it seems to work out fine for them.