REDUCING CRIME IN WILKES-BARRE
WAR ON DRUG DEMAND (users) vs.WAR ON DRUG SUPPLY (dealers)
A DISEASE MODEL instead of a LEGAL MODEL
The
murder and crime rate in Wilkes-Barre is almost solely due to drugs and
addictive substances. Ask any corrections officers and they will tell you that
at least 80 per cent of the residents are there because of drugs or alcohol. Solve
the drug problem and you solve the crime problem. Period.
INSANITY
FOR 50 YEARS “The war on drugs” has been “A
WAR ON SUPPLY”
We treat disease as a crime and the results have been horrendous.
WARFARE
AGAINST DEMAND ~ Drug test again and again.
If you drug test on average every 30 days –
you are never
more than 30 days from the problem. This means EARLY
INTERVENTION!
We have officials in WB who have never been
tested and they have had to live
with their addiction for years. The
pain and suffering and corruption that they have spread is
incalculable.
ACTIVE ADDICTS
~ Medical clinics set up to treat active addicts
~ Using disease model, patients given
pharmaceutical equivalent of
their drug. Many of these are
already being used.
~ If users are treated well enough so that they don’t go back to
the streets… then we have
effectively ended the drug trade and
the crime that goes with it.
Yes… but
won’t they still be “on drugs?”
A) Yes… but they would have been anyway. The
clinic setting takes away the crime element. The clinic is safer.
B) While at the clinic… they will be getting
daily reminders of treatment choices. All users truly want to stop.
C) The
neighborhood would actually be much safer as the crime that goes with the drug
trade would be gone.
è The most important outcome? Drug dealers, and all the
horrible things about them, would go away. USERS WOULD NOT NEED THEM ANYMORE.
Think about that!
SUMMARY “WAR ON SUPPLY” “WAR ON DEMAND”
Crime rate Remains as is Drops at least
75 %
Murder rate Remains as is Drops at least
75 %
Dealers Makes $ 1million/yr
Makes nothing
Treatment Remains as is
Treatment available
Health issues Remains as is Issues can be
flagged at clinic
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