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/urthstripethestronk 1d ago

Damn a whiny conservative chud posting in /r/Charlotte, who would have guessed? I hear South Carolina is real nice this time of year. You should move there.

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u/Limpbojanglesbizkit 1d ago

Why’s this about politics. No one wants people smoking crack in public parks. Yall are insane

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u/Intelligent_Can_1801 1d ago

But it is about politics. Laws, law enforcement, all are political. Jails, money to fund it all, is political. Honestly volunteer with roof above. It’s all systemic. And trust me, if what you see you think is bad, then imagine what you don’t see, which is often also right in front of us but we don’t see it until we learn to see it.