The following report is SI Live:
Mayor Eric Adams announced the second phase of his plan to address New Yorkers mental health problems on Thursday, and a key prong is bringing more safe-injections sites to the five boroughs.
That doesn’t sit well with at least two local elected officials who vowed to oppose any of the sites, which the city calls overdose prevention centers, on Staten Island.
Democratic District Attorney Michael McMahon, who opposed the sites since Mayor Bill de Blasio opened two in Manhattan in 2021, reiterated his objection to the idea, and referenced his own office’s work to address overdoses on the Island.
These centers cause far more harm than good. The simple fact is that two safe injection sites have existed in New York City for the past year, and in that time fatal overdoses have reached new highs and the quality of life for residents who live near these centers has reached new lows.
Opening more of these centers under the guise of saving lives does a disservice to the life-saving work being done by heroes on the ground here on Staten Island, who over the past eight years have diverted tens of thousands of struggling New Yorkers out of the criminal justice system and into life-saving treatment through innovative programming duplicated across the city, nation, and recognized in the White House’s National Drug Control Strategy Report.
McMahon said
Efforts to address overdoses around the city, whether on the part of City Hall or McMahon’s office, have largely been failures, particularly since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
A January report from the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shared provisional overdose fatality data that showed deaths in 2021 rose sharply from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic fueled in large part by the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
There were 2,668 overdose deaths across the five boroughs in 2021, a 27% increase from the year before when there were 2,103 fatalities, and a 78% rise from 2019′s tally. Staten Island’s death toll reached 146 in 2021 — up from a total of 133 in 2020, according to the Health Department.
Despite those numbers, people working in drug treatment, and the government officials who support them have long argued that without their services, drug overdoses would be claiming the lives of even more people.
Adams said during a City Hall press conference on the second phase of his mental health plan that he would hope to work with McMahon to help bring an overdose prevention to Staten Island, which, along with the Bronx, has long been considered a hot spot for the nation’s drug crisis.
I think [McMahon] is an excellent district attorney. We are going to sit down with him. We are going to show him the numbers. We are going to bring him to see what we’re doing in Harlem, and other [overdose prevention centers].
The issue of overdoses is a real issue on Staten Island and [McMahon] and I have a great relationship and I’m going to continue to show why we believe this is the best way forward.
Adams said.
While the mayor may be ready to evangelize the benefits of overdose prevention centers, he’ll have a long way to go on Staten Island where elected officials besides McMahon have also been consistent opponents, and the law has historically been on their side.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) issued a statement Thursday during the mayor’s press conference blasting his proposal, and referencing a New York Daily News report from January that shared neighbors’ ongoing issues with the Harlem overdose prevention center, which is one of two with the other in Washington Heights.
It’s been a little over one year since the city opened these illegal supervised injection sites and not only has the quality of life in these neighborhoods severely declined, but overdose deaths in our city are continuing to climb to record levels.
We warned the city about the unintended consequences last year and it’s disturbing that Mayor Adams remains complicit with this illegal scheme that’s only encouraging illegal drug use, leaving residents fearful and placing them in harm’s way.
She said.
While a member of the New York Assembly, Malliotakis obtained a commitment in 2018 from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to take legal action if the city opened a safe injection site, as it had done in other localities, including Philadelphia.
Federal courts sided with the DOJ in those cases pointing to a part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 that lawmakers created as a way to target “crackhouses,” but effectively outlaw safe injection sites as well.
Adams said there’s still “some clarity that’s needed in the legalities” regarding the safe injection sites, and no legal actions have been taken against the two sites operating in Manhattan, which don’t receive public dollars.
When de Blasio announced the two sites at the end of his term, he said that community buy-in, including that of district attorneys, was key to getting the sites up and running.
McMahon’s office did not answer a pair of follow-up questions as to whether he would take legal action against any safe injection sites on the Island, but the district attorney said he has expressed his “total opposition” to Adams’ administration regarding the sites.
He added that he’s received “no indication” that such a site will be opened on Staten Island, but Adams said the city plans to move forward with the support of state officials.
Our goal is to have the governor, her team, her staff see what we’re doing, so that we can get the support that we need.
Adams said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Proverbs 28:4
Talk about a paradox: ‘let’s set up a place for people to do their illegal drugs legally!’ This is the Fallen States of America in 2023: and it’s only gonna get more asinine from here.
Check out some of Adams’ other transgressions:
New York City Rolls Out Three New Police Robots To Monitor Increased Crime
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Mandates “Vegan Fridays” In All K-12 Public Schools
New York City Pushing New Campaign To Drink Their Tap Water. Should You?
Poverty Stricken New York City Now Selling Rotisserie Rats And Frozen Guinea Pigs For Food
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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There is now a marijuana store on Staten Island: https://www.silive.com/news/2023/03/six-weed-dispensaries-to-open-on-staten-island.html
https://www.silive.com/news/2023/04/want-to-open-a-recreational-weed-dispensary-in-new-york-youll-have-to-overcome-these-legal-obstacles-first.html
i remember in the past his ancesters complained about white corruption and looky now who sold out. see the thing about the love of money is it corrupts the flesh and oppresses the soul. everyone is tempted by loads of money unless you have Jesus and are saved then you will know how to defend yourself from the lust and Jesus will fight on your behalf.
… he can save and he can heal, take your burden to the Lord and leave it there….
How moronic!
Instead of cracking down on dealers and usage, let’s just make designated spots for them to shoot up where it’s no further than here for cops – BRILLIANT!
New York is gonna collapse and fall away.
Theodore Dalrymple wrote of this method of planned & purposeful dumbing down & demoralization instituted first by Tavistock & that ilk in Great Britain in ‘Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass’ and ‘Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses’. Of course, he followed humanist philosophy & psychology (else ‘the Club’ would never have allowed his books to see the light of day), not tying it to the abandonment of the King James Bible & falling back to Rome which we can see.
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Regardless, it was implemented first in Great Britain, after Germany, & all those nations now in the EU socialist polity & practice: to which we can look & see the same outcomes now coming about in America as she slouches toward Gomorrah, & apes the practices of Canaan, Egypt & Babylon via Rome. This is what ‘outcome based education’ was all about all along! and Scholasticism, the much vaunted ‘classical education’ before it. It also shows us the character, plan & strategy of these people who count themselves ‘superiors’ & ‘gods’, & how they can’t help but boast & put their ‘better ideas’ & ‘plan’ out there to puff & exalt themselves before the ‘lessers’….nicolaitans that they are, hypocrites & proud refusing the humbling level ground at the foot of the cross. Like the spirit they serve: Ezekiel 28 & Isaiah 14 KJB.
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It’s out there by the grace of God, & to be witnessed by those truly living circumspectly in the world & proving all things, & so that men might make correction & preparation as they see these things unfold, & observe the witness of evident truth history. It’s to the shame of many that it caught us by surprise at all, even thinking we were resisting it, & ignorant of real biblical prophecy noting that though this was always our duty, responsibility & privilege…the bulk of men would not receive it, with the United States of America nowhere in the scriptures save perhaps as one of ‘the isles of the Gentiles’ and/or one of the kings with the beast.
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We know that our Constitution & States’ rights & separation was subverted & greatly weakened through the machinations of Rome & the Jesuits & Masons with the Civil War. And in the years after, the Existentialists & spiritists, textual critics set about transforming the nation even further. Opium & THC hemp, as well as alcohol, and academia, were the ruin of many even then. Even as they orchestrated the events of boom & bust, and presidential assassinations, the Parliament of Religions & corruption of the Bible, leading up to the establishment of the Fed, the income tax allowing for big government, & the League of Nations preceding the U.N., the continuing dumbing down & demoralization leading to the removal of the Bible from our schools, acceptance & promotion of the non-declared de facto evolutionary State religion, & finally removing the majority of churches from the word of God to the Vatican perver$ion$….the establishment of the US petro dollar as the world currency….the ‘sexual revolution’, and here we are. Sex, drugs & rock and roll the ruin of the youth of this nation.
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This no surprise to those who’ve witnessed & attempted to warn & resist against these things for decades, even going back well over a century now. And, it’s a warning of which pack ’em, stack ’em, track ’em, and rack ’em areas in this crumbling & Balkanizing/Balkanized nation that believers, or even anyone yet attached to evident truth & with a hope of coming to their senses, to flee: being grateful to God that in this nation, at least, there yet remains a few quiet corners & states somewhat resistant to these things (even if for all the wrong reasons on the leadership level) to flee to.