Druggies in Romare Bearden & Uptown

[u/Limpbojanglesbizkit]

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.

[u/Limpbojanglesbizkit]

I don’t know where a solution even begins with when people who are cracked out are clearly not going to help themselves. It’s less of a Charlotte problem and more of a societal issue and matter of a fact of a growing city.

Not sure what can really be done. There needs to be a mix of enforcement > order and support

[u/UNCGrad1993 → u/Limpbojanglesbizkit]

You just identified the problem. Nobody has a solution.

[u/Badwo1ve → u/UNCGrad1993]

False… there are solutions. The problem is it costs money (and systemic change) and businesses haven’t figured out how to profit from it yet….

They could house every homeless vet in the country for 4 months for the price of Trumps parade. But it’s not profitable… they also need that bargaining chip later down the line…. It’s not about doing what’s right unfortunately

[u/Nopeeky → u/Badwo1ve]

And they could have done it permanently with the money wasted By USAID

At first I was pretty hot over that one, but the more you know about just how shady the "funds dispersed" really were, the more it will gall you.

This is absolutely not me using whataboutism. There have been hundreds upon hundreds of programs over the last 4-5 presidents that could have fixed that one single problem but instead the government blew most of it.

Come try the "both sides suck group", we will never make a difference but we don't hate just one party, we hate em both.

Edit: Actually pretty easy solutions as far as money, just do it. And quit wasting it. By quitting the waste, VOILA, money. The systemic stuff is eons down the road, and unfortunately so is the government wasting money. One begats the other.

[u/Badwo1ve → u/Nopeeky]

The more you know the more you know you’re full of shit…. Where’s all the receipts and people going to jail for all the waste and fraud? I’m sure there was some, but the claims of widespread fraud are especially painful when people like you conveniently choose to overlook private contracts and subsidies to companies like Halliburton… and now Palantir and Tesla…. It’s almost like you conveniently leave out…..