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Oregon undoes groundbreaking drug decriminalization law
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So, no, it's modifying the law, not undoing it.
HMMMM.
Ah, yes, the west coast, famously devoid of homeless people, suddenly inundated with them. Couldn't have anything to do with, idk, it costing $600 just to rent a room in even a smaller city? $900-1100 for a one bedroom apartment? The cost and supply of housing has nothing to do with the homelessness crisis that's basically been stewing since 2008, it's definitely just the last two years of decriminalization? Okay.
Also notably absent: actual, verifiable data-backed evidence that this has been a policy disaster. Plenty of anecdote, though, so I'm sure they're onto the truth of the matter.
As an Oregonian, I find their explanation to be horseshit and this change as nothing more than the Democratic party trying to sway potential voters in an election year and funnel even more money into the police and prison system. This shit was just as bad before 110 passed but now we're not wasting money keeping people in jail for months only to dump them right back out on the street.
The biggest issue with 110 is that the state hasn't actually dispersed any of the funding in order to open up new rehab facilities. Furthermore, police here are still butthurt about all the protests and refuse to do their job 90% of the time (while still collecting their fat paychecks) which makes people believe things like public drug use are legal.
This is it. A lack of training for officers and a lack of infrastructure to support rehabilitation. The bill was set up for failure, as none of the above happened prior to the law going into effect. It's like removing your physical fence before installing an invisible fence and wondering why your animals all ran away.
I read an article recently about the failure of this measure. It attributed a large part of the failure to a lack of training. For example, police were significantly less likely to hand out tickets for minor possession than they were to make arrests (before the measure), because they didn't see what the point was. To them, it was just a significantly more lenient system and the article argued that training could've helped them to see that the ticket isn't meant to be a punitive measure, but a way to pull people towards the increased support.
The police were essential outreach, but they weren't given training to understand how their role was different. The tickets that were being handed out were a standard one, instead of a custom ticket made for this new citation, which would've explained that you can get the ticket waived if you call the support number listed.
Edit: found the article https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/14/oregon-drug-decriminalization-plan-measure-110-leadership-failures/
I wanna have those rent prices! A studio in Denver is closer to 1200
Get a few people together and start raising hell at city council. I'm doing it. Together we can all demand better cities.
I wish that would work but not in a real city it would take a few thousand with pitchforks and mortars basically killing everyone and everything.
So you going full Detroit or Cleveland both cities I love and love to visit but would not live there
Well, you could always just wait and see if things get better, but it doesn't seem to be working.
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