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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Tough Love in SF: Arrests Roll for Refusing New Sober Center
Description: San Francisco is actually arresting drug addicts? What timeline are we living in? The city that became the poster child for enabling addiction just opened a "reset center" with a simple message: get sober, get arrested, or get out. This is the same city where a 400% increase in human excrement in mall elevators became normal. Now they're trying involuntary custodial intervention—words that would have triggered absolute meltdowns just five years ago.Meanwhile, Seattle is sprinting in the opposite direction, refusing to arrest anyone for public drug use while taxpayers fund addicts' apartments AND their tents. San Francisco hit ro...