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San Francisco and Seattle are turning into sister-cities. What baffles me is why drug DEALERS are allowed to do so with impunity. https://www.sfchronicle.com/b
by hbarka 5y ago
San Francisco and Seattle are turning into sister-cities. What baffles me is why drug DEALERS are allowed to do so with impunity.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/safe-sights-drug-dealers-tenderloin-sf-use-soma-13286197.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/sa...
- sydthrowaway 5y agoRead the book San Fransicko. The policy makers are bonkers.
- standardUser 5y agoThe difference between users and dealers is mostly in the imagination of middle-class people.
- coryfklein 5y agoThe Wire[0] is a very interesting portrait into the challenges involved in managing drug crime in a city. I'm not a cop so I can't say how far the realism extends, but the show seems to try pretty hard to be grounded in reality as opposed to – say – CSI. [0] https://www.hbo.com/the-wire https://www.hbo.com/the-wire
- hotpotamus 5y agoThe Wire was written by David Simon, a Baltimore journalist who wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (made into a TV show named Homicide before The Wire) after embedding with the police for a year. It's basically the magnum opus of crime documentary from that era. The Wire is fiction but draws strongly from that work. I don't know how his experiences influenced him, but David Simon's politics are extremely left wing these days so make of that what you will.
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