• Nogami@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I think everyone needs to see proof of it working and I mean visibly reducing crime and violence, not saving lives.

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      11 hours ago

      It’ll work when government spends real money on it.

      That means real institutions, not shoestring strip-mall locations with precarious funding. It also means safe-supply. It also means housing. And–this is the hard one for advocates–it means humane incarceration for people for whom support, housing and safe-supply aren’t enough.

      All of this comes with a price tag, but we’d rather build a spa parking lot or give Galen Weston money to upgrade his fridges or some such bullshit.

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        11 hours ago

        I agree. I don’t mind the government spending real money on it to prove it works, but 100% the advocates will never agree to forcibly incarcerating people who are unwilling or unable to participate in society at a civilized level.

        So it’s doomed to fail and everyone will want to thanos -snap the problem away.

        All they are is dust in the wind dude.