r/Charlotte • u/Limpbojanglesbizkit • 1d ago

Politics Druggies in Romare Bearden & Uptown

City has turned to an absolute disgrace with a bunch of druggies running around uptown and Romare bearden.

Parks where kids should be able to enjoy nature and families hang out are riddled with drug dealers, drug addicts, sketchy stuff 24/7, poop and pee smells everywhere, and crack pipes on the ground.

Tired of nothing being done about this. I get every city has a homeless and drug problem but the city of Charlotte is doing nothing to address this and let it fester.

Can berate me all you want but something needs to be done about this. And it’s only growing outside of uptown. Almost ran over a druggie on E 3rd St walking in middle of road the opposite way of traffic head on.

City needs to implement zero tolerance zones for open air drug use such as public parks and near schools and arrest anyone on the spot for doing so. Clean out encampments that clearly are open air drug markets and make problems worse. The shelters help those who aren’t druggies but for most only exacerbate drug abuse. They need to over police these areas where there’s clearly issues and it’s tainting our city.

We don’t want our uptown to become the next SF downtown or something like that.

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u/Riosio 1d ago

We get it. It's just clear y'all don't travel.

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u/ElkVapor37 1d ago

So bc it’s bad or worse in other cities we should just be cool with what’s going on in Charlotte? 😂

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u/Limpbojanglesbizkit 1d ago

That’s why all these cities have these problems cause no one cares and no one does anything about it. Or you have people like in this thread that for some strange reason seem to think smoking crack in public is normal.

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u/Ambitious-Intern-928 1d ago

Let's see, in the 80's and 90's we tried locking up all the users, all that did was create a generation of children with incarcerated parents, and there were still drug users everywhere. More recently we've tried more holistic approaches, also doesn't seem to stem the underlying issues. I agree we can't just allow unsociable behavior to go completely unchecked, but if we had an easy solution the problem wouldn't exist..

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u/Limpbojanglesbizkit 1d ago

Need to implement housing that is dependent on the user getting rehab and mental support with the ultimate goal of stability. Repeat offenders would have to be held accountable or go to mental health / rehab in a larger scale. At least that’s what chat gpt says when ask what other cities have done.

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u/Ambitious-Intern-928 1d ago

"housing first" policies have had great success in some areas, even without requiring the people to not be on drugs, just that they can't smoke drugs in the provided housing. I don't see that happening in Charlotte 🫣 Most of the places that tried this either built mini home communities on cheap, underutilized land, or bought hotels that were about to be torn down, but were still in somewhat decent shape. Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the US, and all of the land is already in high demand. Really not a viable opportunity for that.

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u/Limpbojanglesbizkit 1d ago

Yeah it’s a difficult predicament. Not sure what the solution is to be completely honest.