Crime is at all time high, And President Biden spends 30 million$$ worth of crack pipes to Distribute

[Atticus Finch]

The murder rate is still below its historic peaks reached in the 1990s, but the figures from 2020 show the problem has become much more widespread.

"In the '90s, New York and Los Angeles accounted for 13.5% of all murders nationally. Last year, it was under 4%," he said. "So it's a lot more diffuse than it was in the '90s."

[Atticus Finch]

6 minutes ago, concha said:

They use crack pipes?

concha asks rhetorical questions when he has run out of material, like I said, but still wants to defend his dumbass colleagues on an issue.

Switzerland administers heroine in clinics.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/focus-page-drugs-policy_how-far-is-switzerland-willing-to-go-when-it-comes-to-decriminalising-drugs-/45810320

For 25 years, Switzerland has applied a ‘four pillars’ policy: prevention, therapy, harm reduction and repression (law enforcement). The model is highly regarded by addiction professionals and has proven effective. Since its adoption, the number of deaths resulting from drug consumption has decreased, criminality has declined, the health of addicts has vastly improved and open drug scenes have disappeared.

One major policy innovation has been the controlled medical distribution of heroin. Addicts can visit a specialised centre to receive a daily dose of the drug. The injections take place on site, under the supervision of a medical team.

[concha]

8 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

The murder rate is still below its historic peaks reached in the 1990s, but the figures from 2020 show the problem has become much more widespread.

"In the '90s, New York and Los Angeles accounted for 13.5% of all murders nationally. Last year, it was under 4%," he said. "So it's a lot more diffuse than it was in the '90s."

 

That's great.

So it's spread to other cities.

Thanks.

🤡

 

 

[concha]

4 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

concha asks rhetorical questions when he has run out of material, like I said, but still wants to defend his dumbass colleagues on an issue.

Switzerland administers heroine in clinics.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/focus-page-drugs-policy_how-far-is-switzerland-willing-to-go-when-it-comes-to-decriminalising-drugs-/45810320

For 25 years, Switzerland has applied a ‘four pillars’ policy: prevention, therapy, harm reduction and repression (law enforcement). The model is highly regarded by addiction professionals and has proven effective. Since its adoption, the number of deaths resulting from drug consumption has decreased, criminality has declined, the health of addicts has vastly improved and open drug scenes have disappeared.

One major policy innovation has been the controlled medical distribution of heroin. Addicts can visit a specialised centre to receive a daily dose of the drug. The injections take place on site, under the supervision of a medical team.

 

You bitch about staying on topic.

You run to hump the leg of the Swiss.

The title of the thread is about crack pipes.

And then you whine if I ask about the Swiss distributing crack pipes.

🤣

 

 

 

 

[Atticus Finch]

8 minutes ago, concha said:

That's great.

So it's spread to other cities.

Thanks.

concha mad.

concha thought he could wiggle out of the map.

concha angry.

😄

[Atticus Finch]

8 minutes ago, concha said:

You bitch about staying on topic.

You run to hump the leg of the Swiss.

The title of the thread is about crack pipes.

The story linked is about *harm reduction* measures being used by the Biden Administration.

The focus on crack pipes in partisan hackery.

Harm reduction works and has been used to great success in Portugal and Switzerland.

We get it, concha. You're not a serious person. You don't have demonstrate how unserious you are in every thread.

[Nolebull813]

[concha]

1 minute ago, Atticus Finch said:

The story linked is about *harm reduction* measures being used by the Biden Administration.

The focus on crack pipes in partisan hackery.

Harm reduction works and has been used to great success in Portugal and Switzerland.

We get it, concha. You're not a serious person. You don't have demonstrate how unserious you are in every thread.

 

I've been kicking your ass.

Still need help being honest about wages?

🤡

 

[concha]

2 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

The story linked is about *harm reduction* measures being used by the Biden Administration.

The focus on crack pipes in partisan hackery.

Harm reduction works and has been used to great success in Portugal and Switzerland.

We get it, concha. You're not a serious person. You don't have demonstrate how unserious you are in every thread.

 

The literal headline of the article:

Reports of Biden’s taxpayer-funded crack pipes draw scrutiny

[Nolebull813]

[Atticus Finch]

3 minutes ago, concha said:

The literal headline of the article:

That's the partisan hackery.

The article source is a harm reduction grant.

The right-wing rag pulled out that point in order to incite morons like you and Nolebull813.

We know, concha. You've got nothing insighful to say on this topic but you have some need to defend jackasses like Noelbull813 and Shyster Joe.

[Atticus Finch]

7 minutes ago, concha said:

I've been kicking your ass.

"I'm kicking your ass!"

Says concha while he literally flees in shame from almost every debate.

 

[concha]

7 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

That's the partisan hackery.

The article source is a harm reduction grant.

The right-wing rag pulled out that point in order to incite morons like you and Nolebull813.

We know, concha. You've got nothing insighful to say on this topic but you have some need to defend jackasses like Noelbull813 and Shyster Joe.

 

Plenty of coverage from lots of sources across the spectrum directly referencing crack pipes, Andy.

Do you need a hug?

 

[concha]

7 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

"I'm kicking your ass!"

Says concha while he literally flees in shame from almost every debate.

 

 

 

Truth hurts, I guess.

Poor Simon Legree.

Someone find him a new independent-minded Black woman to denigrate. Stat!

 

[Atticus Finch]

4 minutes ago, concha said:

Plenty of coverage from lots of sources across the spectrum directly referencing crack pipes, Andy.

The Daily Mail, Fox News, The Independent.

Two British tabloids and Fox News.

I see Newsweek as well but their story is not sensational and tries to explain it.

Otherwise, it's all copy/past or aggregations from the right-wing rag sites.

[Atticus Finch]

5 minutes ago, concha said:

Do you need a hug?

No, you've got nothing to say as usual.

You are merely scratching the itch you have to defend morons, dictators, etc.

[Atticus Finch]

concha on the increasing murder rate.

CONCHA: The murder rate skyrocketed in 2020! I wonder where this occurred?! Hmmm! 

ME: Donald Trump was President of the United States.

CONCHA: I mean locally! Where crime control occurs!

ME: OK, here's a map of the states. No discernible pattern.

CONCHA: Why are you afraid of cities!? Interesting!

ME: OK, here's data showing that the rate increase was greater in small towns than big cities.

CONCHA: OK, whatever!

😄

[concha]

3 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

concha on the increasing murder rate.

CONCHA: The murder rate skyrocketed in 2020! I wonder where this occurred?! Hmmm! 

ME: Donald Trump was President of the United States.

CONCHA: I mean locally! Where crime control occurs!

ME: OK, here's a map of the states. No discernible pattern.

CONCHA: Why are you afraid of cities!? Interesting!

ME: OK, here's data showing that the rate increase was greater in small towns than big cities.

CONCHA: OK, whatever!

😄

 

Andy trying to be clever.

Here's a shorter, funnier version:

CONCHA: I mean locally! Where crime control occurs!

ME: OK, here's a map of the states. No discernible pattern.

 

Andy is too fucking stupid to know that "state-level" is not even remotely close to "local level".

🤡

 

 

 

[Nolebull813]

[Atticus Finch]

15 minutes ago, concha said:

 

Andy trying to be clever.

Here's a shorter, funnier version:

CONCHA: I mean locally! Where crime control occurs!

ME: OK, here's a map of the states. No discernible pattern.

 

Andy is too fucking stupid to know that "state-level" is not even remotely close to "local level".

🤡

 

concha's only method of argumentation is to dodge.

As anybody can see, I've covered every level of government in my exposings on concha's position.

To avoid admitting the embarrassment, he pecks around the edges trying to find some terrain where he can stand.

But as you can see, his statements kept blowing up in his face.

[concha]

3 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

concha's only method of argumentation is to dodge.

As anybody can see, I've covered every level of government in my exposings on concha's position.

To avoid admitting the embarrassment, he pecks around the edges trying to find some terrain where he can stand.

But as you can see, his statements kept blowing up in his face.

 

You literally were proud of posting a state-level map to address my point of cities.

Jesucristo.

Take a break, Mary Alice

🤣

 

[Atticus Finch]

22 minutes ago, concha said:

You literally were proud of posting a state-level map to address my point of cities.

And then posted the city data that forced you to flee immediately.

I'm used to seeing you flee though.

You do it pretty much on the regular.

It wouldn't be so funny if you didn't keep doubling down all the time on stupid ideas and, in this case, on cities.

You have egg on your face.

[concha]

45 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

And then posted the city data that forced you to flee immediately.

I'm used to seeing you flee though.

You do it pretty much on the regular.

It wouldn't be so funny if you didn't keep doubling down all the time on stupid ideas and, in this case, on cities.

You have egg on your face.

 

I didn't even read it.

You spam this site so much folks have to pick and choose.

So the smaller cities are not run by Dems? Didn't see that part.

 

 

[DBP66]

No money for drug pipes: Feds douse social media firestorm

 

Wed, February 9, 2022, 2:24 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dousing a social media firestorm, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to counter harm from illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.

The White House was put on the defensive as outrage from the political right, some of it with racial overtones, was cresting online.

“No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta said in a joint statement.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said separately it was never the intention to pay for drug pipes, and complained that any such impression was created by “inaccurate reporting.”

Monday was the deadline for service organizations and local governments to apply for a share of $30 million in federal money for “harm reduction” efforts to prevent disease, injury and other collateral trauma to people addicted to illicit drugs. Harm reduction, such as providing a space where drug users can inject and be monitored for overdoses, is a controversial idea. Critics see it as enabling drug use, but public health advocates say it's a pragmatic approach to keep bad situations from getting worse.

The original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed “safe smoking kits/supplies” among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money. They were among a dozen categories that included overdose prevention drugs, medication lockboxes, test kits for infectious diseases, and syringe disposal containers. The grant solicitation did not specifically mention pipes, although they can be a part of safe smoking kits.

Daniel Raymond, director of policy for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, said only a few programs in the U.S. have handed out safe smoking kits.

“None of this was being done with federal funds,” Raymond said. “I feel very confident in saying that. I would have been aware if that were true.”

Nonetheless reports that the Biden administration was using federal dollars to pay for “crack pipes" took off. Some Republican senators piled on, castigating the administration.

Misleading claims about the HHS program dominated social media early Wednesday, many of them from conservative commentators and Republican politicians sharing memes and tweets that received tens of thousands of likes.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas tweeted: “Last week, Biden talked about being tough on crime. This week, the Biden Admin announced funds for crack pipe distribution to “advance racial equity.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee chimed in on Twitter Tuesday night to say, “End government-funded crack pipes.”

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida called the purported pipe distribution “insanity” in a video published on Twitter, which had 245,000 views by Wednesday afternoon. “The Biden administration is going to be sending crack pipes and meth pipes targeting minority communities in this country,” he said.

Some social media users even went as far as to say that Biden and other Democrats were going to give out crack pipes during Black History Month.

“Joe Biden is handing out crack pipes to help ‘racial equity’... during Black History Month,” Errol Webber, a Black Republican candidate for California’s 47th Congressional District, said on Twitter. “No I’m not joking. No I’m not lying. This is what he thinks of our community.”

HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim tweeted that such reports were “blatant misinformation,” and Wednesday at the White House briefing Psaki said paying for pipes was never part of the plan.

“They were never a part of the kit,” said Psaki. “It was inaccurate reporting and we wanted to put out information to make that clear.”

Late Wednesday, Rubio issued a press release saying, “I am glad the Biden administration acknowledges sending crack pipes to our nation’s addicts is a bad idea."

Advocates of harm reduction feared the blow-up would hamper efforts to coax drug users out of the shadows.

Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law, said he was disappointed by the White House response.

“This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities," Beletsky said. "As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber pushback against something that is quite sound and rooted in science, they backtrack. They put their tail between their legs and back pedal.”

But administration officials Becerra and Gupta said they continue to stand by “proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes.” HHS also pointed out that the harm reduction grants are required to conform to federal, state and local laws, and crack pipes are illegal in many jurisdictions.

Homemade pipes for smoking crack and methamphetamine may break easily or also release toxic fumes. Because of that, safer pipes may be one of the components of the kits.

But they also can and do include other supplies, such as alcohol wipes to clean hands or a pipe, or lip balm for cracked lips, Raymond said. Such give-away kits can be a way to start a conversation with drug users, perhaps pointing them toward change.

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[Atticus Finch]

This is why nothing ever gets done in this country, or at the very least, nothing outside the box is ever tried.

Lunatics with political agendas stir up a firestorm of faux outrage.

What's more is that the same people whining about this will turn around and praise their political heroes for being courageous and genuine and not caring about public opinion.