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Bratton was referring to the vending machine unveiled by

Adams administration health officials in Brownsville,
Brooklyn, earlier this month that offers free handy druggie items, including paraphernalia to smoke drugs,
strips to test drugs contain potentially deadly fentanyl and NARCAN to try to revive people if they
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“What happens when you stay on drugs? You want the next high. …You graduate from marijuana … to
heroin. … That’s the problem with addiction,” Bratton fumed. “There’s never enough drugs. There’s never
enough high. That’s effectively what we as a government are starting to support.”
“City after city. State after state: this idea that we will sustain your drug habit rather than try to get you off
your drug habit.”
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“The world has turned upside down,” former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
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“Every three hours, we’re losing a New Yorker [to drugs]. And it looks like 2022 is on track to be our
highest year ever in overdoses,’’ Vasan said at the time.
“We have a rising tide of fentanyl, and now we have other substances entering our drug supply, which is
really putting us behind the eight ball.”

He specifically noted the increasing presence of Xylazine, a veterinary drug known as “Tranq” or the
“zombie drug’’ that can leave users in a catatonic state and with conditions that eat their flesh off.
But Bratton wasn’t buying it.

The former top cop — who previously served two stints as city police see also
commissioner , under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Bill de Blasio —
added that New York’s legalization of the recreational use of marijuana
is another mistake that has expanded the local illicit pot market and
encourages youths to illegally light up.
“Iwas just two weeks on vacation … did not smell
in Italy for I

marijuana for two weeks … Boom! As soon as you get back to [New NYC vending machines
York], it hits you in the face,” Bratton said. cater to drug users with
free crack pipes, lip balm
He said New York officials have now allowed the illegal market to
— and Narcan for ODs
spiral out of control.

“They have created a climate where anything goes,” Bratton said.

“The only positive about the red cloud we had last week is that we didn’t smell marijuana,” he said,
referring to the smog here caused by the forest fires in Canada.
“Kids now 12, 13, 14, 15 can get ahold of [marijuana]. It’s so readily available. If we’re selling it illegally in
1,200 shops around the city, do you think they care who’s coming in to buy it? They’re not checking for
IDs. It’s a cash business. The city has totally lost control over it. The state has lost control over it.”

At least three more such vending machines are set to be put in other neighborhoods.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature recently approved a law to jack up fines against illegal
cannabis peddlers and make it easier to close them down, but there are now so many of the shops.

As he has in the past, Bratton blamed New York’s political leadership, particularly left-leaning state
legislators who passed pro-criminal defendant laws such as cashless bail reform, for the surge in quality-
crimes.
“This was a system created by political leadership,” Bratton said. “Our systems have been stretched to the
breaking point [and] in some instances have broken. And the only way we can fix them effectively is
through political leadership.”

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45 minutes ago
Bring Bratton Back ! As Mayor As Governor ! As Something in Charge ! !

Wondering, are drug addicts even capable of reading and following the directions on those
anyway ?
Just what is the city giving to the taxpayers who are funding all this ?
Free vending machines dispensing... ?
Free food ? Free Health Care ? Phone ? Free Hotel ?
Reply 36 Share

Illegitimate Joe
44 minutes ago
“We have a rising tide of fentanyl, and now we have other substances entering our drug supply,
is really putting us behind the eight ball.”

Are the vending machines going to be dispensing 8 balls next?

Reply 18 Share

NY C
52 minutes ago
It certainly has turned upside down and backwards.
Reply 28 Share

Tishtoshtash
44 minutes ago
All according to plan to usher in centralized control over you. It’s going to be for your own good
safety!
Reply 13 Share

Flaemis Flambotta
53 minutes ago
Gee... I wonder who the addicts will vote for to keep and maintain their addiction and drug use

Reply 13 Share
Fred in Inglewood
35 minutes ago
They don't vote. Get a grip.
Reply 3 Share
Sinead
32 minutes ago
Knowing how devious the Democrats have become it wouldn't shocked me that they
ave absentee ballot forms or voter registration forms in these machines. I also
be surprised if they're paying people to register to vote and turn in their
in ballots-to Democrats of course
Reply 2 Share
Captain Napalm
2 minutes ago
Reynolds wrap called, they want to give you free tin foil for life so you can
more hats.
Reply Share
Tishtoshtash
31 minutes ago
You get a grip. Even hear of ballot harvesting and mail in voting?
Reply 2 Share

Winston Smith
50 minutes ago
This man is correct… The bums seem to be winning
Reply 17 Share

John Smith
27 minutes ago
Will Mayor Adams setup beer kegs outside an AA meeting?
Reply 9 Share

Sinead
30 minutes ago
Is there a reason why we want to prolong the life of street level drug addicts?
Reply 7 Share

Fred Funkhauser
52 minutes ago
Give all the druggies as much fentanyl as they can do and end this abomination already
Reply 16 Share

Libby Clauwnz
47 minutes ago
gee, i dont know why? media manipulation plus politicians that everyone voted in?
Reply 7 Share

Ace12
28 minutes ago
Trump for President!
Giuliani for Attorney General!
Bratton for FBI director!
MAGA!
Reply 7 Share
Needless
13 minutes ago
Giuliani? Really? You guys are even crazier than I thought.
Reply Share
Ace12
7 minutes ago
Giuliani lowered violent crime in NYC by 75%. You democrats have the opposite

Reply 1 Share

Needless
14 minutes ago
The war on drugs has been a complete failure and the reason why cops love it is because they
ely on it for a big part of their funding. That money should be spent on rehabilitation and
revention so we don't end up with even more skid rows and urban zombies like we have now.
current policy is obviously not working so it's time to try something else like treatment
of incarceration which only cost more money and solves nothing because they return to
drugs as soon as they're released and some even continue using while in jail.
Reply 1 Share

Frank Hernandez
40 minutes ago
Leave NYC as soon that you can
A decadent city out of control
Pathetic !
Reply 12 Share
Needless
10 minutes ago
Yes please leave right now. There's no reason for you to wait. Bye bye!
Reply Share

Hammer
53 minutes ago
"A Clock Work Orange" coming to if not on the streets near you and you and you. God help us.
Think before you vote for BROKEN PROMISES again and again and again like you always do.
Reply 7 Share

Billy Clark
47 minutes ago
This is messed-up America this would never happen her in the UK
Reply 4 Share

Dave Dion
29 minutes ago
The fool in charge of nyc should beg you sir , for direction on how to fix a city !

Reply 6 Share

LTO-T1
25 minutes ago
The city is just helping these dug attics krill themselves faster. This is the best way to get them
the streets. Death is easier than getting them off drugs
Reply 3 Share

URLoved
12 minutes ago
This NYC's Biggest Mistake ever! Send Mr. Hindu back to CASTELAND, and as for Adams,
is
e is a puppet. Shame on him as a former police officer. Landlord s will not put up with the
value decrease, wealthy people must step in.
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Cliff Zimmerman
7 minutes ago
This is the elites not-so-subtle way of “reducing the surface population”. They’re no longer
to hide it, simply put into the poorest neighborhoods, on purpose. It’s insidious. It’s evil.
Reply 1 Share

URLoved
16 minutes ago
Look what the people of color did! Why is "people of color" good, and "colored people" bad? BC
OC came from one group, and CP came from another. Can't fix stupid. Happy Juneteenth.
the LAST thing POC need is another slang-non English, misspelled word associated with
but thank the slave o...
See more
Reply 3 Share

Worldman
14 minutes ago
I am enjoying watching NY implode. The city will never recover. The Democrats despise
merica and enjoy watching all the death and mayhem they have caused.
Reply 3 Share

Fred in Inglewood
35 minutes ago
Who needs cops? C'mon.
Reply 2 Share

Dave Stevens
50 minutes ago
" The world has turned upside down’"... It sure has, a convicted rapist is running
president of the United States.
Reply 3 Share
Sinead
31 minutes ago
First of wasn't convicted of rape. It was an alleged sexual assault from a woman who
all he
rovided no evidence, had no witnesses I couldn't even give the date of the alleged
Go to show the effectiveness of the jury pool in New York City
Reply 5 Share
Mastodonrocks
30 minutes ago
At least some people pay attention.
Reply 2 Share
Mastodonrocks
47 minutes ago
Who would that be?
Reply 2 Share
John Smith
25 minutes ago
He's not a convicted rapist. But we all did see Brandon cop a feel off of Eva Longoria the
day.
Reply 5 Share
Snake Plitkin
44 minutes ago
I know he is talking about Pedo Joe. FJB.
Reply 6 Share

STAR Gladiator
5 minutes ago
There's a school in Illinois, the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law which ,

eaches courses in "social justice" and "defunding prisons (abolition)" and "defunding the
----- but they have a reputation for fine skunkweed, heavily THC–laced !

Reply Share

Bob Bobo
7 minutes ago
What a hypocrite. When he was PC the last time around he started the tide of increased drug
se by telling cops to stop enforcing low level marijuana use. He was a liberal in conservative

Reply Share

David Cohen
58 seconds ago
He's right
Reply Share

STAR Gladiator
8 minutes ago
What is George Floyd's opinion on this?!?!
Reply Share

Omen55
5 minutes ago
Insanity is letting dem run the city.
NYC deserves what happens next.
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