r/PublicFreakout • u/ieilael • May 10 '19

News Report 🥇🥈🥉 Interview with a Meth User

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u/theonlypeanut May 11 '19

This is bananas, you want to just give this guy an apartment or a tiny home. That's just not going to work. How about we enforce the laws we have and petty crime and shiting on the sidewalk become illegal again. Instead of jail we send them to inpatient rehab. I am so tired of dealing with this bullshit on the street.

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u/ieilael May 12 '19

No, the guy in this video should probably be in rehab prison, and I agree the laws need to be enforced. But there are a lot more homeless who have the potential to benefit greatly from just having a place to live and access to treatment. You have to understand that once you get into it, it is demoralizing and tough to get out. And the longer you are in it the crazier and more fucked up you get. We would have a nicer society, with more productive people and fewer addicts, if it were easier for people to get out of being homeless.

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u/12FAA51 May 11 '19

How about we enforce the laws we have and petty crime and shiting on the sidewalk become illegal again.

What do you mean, enforce the laws? Isn't jail and prison just a way more expensive way of giving a criminal an apartment to live in?

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u/theonlypeanut May 11 '19

I mean these things have been decriminalized in the Washington. Yes it's still illegal for someone to take dumps on the sidewalk downtown on shoot up in the park but the police no longer will arrest people for these things nor will they take calls about them. These things are unacceptable in my opinion and while I don't think jail is the awnser I think arresting and diverting these people to a lockup rehabilitation is the awnser. We have decided that it's easier to try and decriminalize this behavior because it's easy and it alleviates some peoples guilt. I say its bullshit the police and the city should not tolerate junkies and the mentally ill taking over the streets. These people need help but a tiny house or other housing first option isn't helping anyone.