gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoSan Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers in stunning tough-on-crime shiftwww.latimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: conservative@lemm.ee
arrow-up1312arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers in stunning tough-on-crime shiftwww.latimes.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square187fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: conservative@lemm.ee
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minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoAll of history has shown that getting tough by criminalizing drug use doesn’t solve the problem.
minus-squaresadreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agobut it is does provide good cover to fund corrupt police and “non-profits” so middle class people can get decent jobs. That money is deff should not be wasted on things like building public housing…
minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’m only upvoting because the ellipse makes me 75% sure it is sarcastic, but it is just so on the nose.
All of history has shown that getting tough by criminalizing drug use doesn’t solve the problem.
but it is does provide good cover to fund corrupt police and “non-profits” so middle class people can get decent jobs.
That money is deff should not be wasted on things like building public housing…
I’m only upvoting because the ellipse makes me 75% sure it is sarcastic, but it is just so on the nose.