At what point does it have to be asked: “Jim Kenney, Larry Krasner, Danielle Outlaw, have you no shame?” They have not just failed, but failed spectacularly

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We have previously noted how the government of Mexico has used street scenes from Kensington in ads to warn the Mexican people about the dangers of using drugs, and asked the very politically incorrect question: why should we spend money to keep junkies alive?

Now comes London’s Daily Mail:

Inside Philadelphia’s tranq hellscape: Disturbing new footage shows devastating scale of drug crisis in Kensington neighborhood – with addicts crowding filthy sidewalks and shooting up in broad daylight

By Will Potter for DailyMail.com | Saturday, May 27, 2023 | 12:43 PM EDT | Updated: 8:37 PM EDT

Shocking footage has revealed the scale of Philadelphia’s untamed ‘tranq’ epidemic, which has transformed the city’s streets into a drug-infested hellhole.

The Kensington neighborhood – known as ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug crisis – is seen littered with zombie-like addicts, with many shamelessly shooting up in broad daylight.

Gruesome scenes in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ show droves of homeless addicts aimlessly staggering through the streets, surrounded by tents and scattered trash.

There’s a lot more at the original; hat tip to @DawnStensland. Since this article has an embedded video, the rest is off the front page.

We know that lame duck Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, naturally, is tired of the job, has checked out a long time ago, and is just marking time until Democratic mayoral nominee Cherelle Parker Mullins takes over in January of 2024:

I don’t enjoy Fourth of July. I didn’t enjoy the Democratic National Convention, I didn’t enjoy the NFL draft. I’m waiting for something bad to happen all the time. I’ll be happy when I’m not mayor and I can enjoy some stuff.

Everyone has heard the old saw, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” He could have resigned, but didn’t have the courage to do even that much.

Back to the Daily Mail:

The harrowing situation is fueled by the rise of the drug Xylazine, also known as ‘tranq’ – a lethal sedative that is often used to enhance the effects of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.

Philadelphia has become overwhelmed with drug-fueled crime under woke District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described ‘progressive prosecutor.’

His failure to clamp down on crimes and handling of the city’s drug crisis led to his impeachment in 2022 for ‘dereliction of duty’, however he remains in office after his impeachment trial was indefinitely postponed.

But the effects of his tenure has seen tranq take over the streets of Philadelphia, with new footage showing a mass of addicts hunched over in a stupor or passed out on the sidewalk.

‘I’ve never seen human beings remain in these kinds of conditions,’ said Sarah Laurel, who runs outreach organization Savage Sisters, earlier this year.

‘They have open, gaping wounds, they can’t walk, and they tell me, ‘If I go to the hospital, I’m going to get sick. They’re so terrified of the detox.’

So, even across the pond, people recognize the ‘contribution’ Mr Krasner, yet another Democrat, has made to uplifting the City of Brotherly Love.

Here’s a video from the Daily Mail:

At what point does shame kick in? When do the ‘leaders’ of Philadelphia, including Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, realize that they are responsible for the city they supposedly run?

Let’s be honest here: the problems of drug abuse and violence predate Messrs Kenney’s and Krasner’s, and Miss Outlaw’s, terms in office, but the people entrusted, and paid big bucks, to make the city better have instead presided over it becoming worse. Instead of trying to combat the rampant drug abuse which has turned Kensington, and all of Philadelphia, into an international laughing stock, the city has people advocating so-called ‘safe injection centers,’ where junkies can take their drugs while medical technicians are around to keep them from overdosing, or get them immediate help if they do. Philly has oh-so-good-hearted people like Stephanie Sena, “a Villanova University expert on poverty” and professor the Charles Widger School of Law, trying to keep the city from evicting homeless encampments in Kensington, and who are, wittingly or otherwise, simply enabling further drug abuse.

There is only one solution, and it will only partially work: the city must round up and arrest the drug users, not just the dealers, prosecute them and lock them up at least long enough to get them detoxed and clean. Yeah, some of them, many of them, will relapse, and go back to using once they are free, but doing so will at least get them off the streets while they are locked up, and prevent them from the petty, and sometimes not-so petty, crimes in which they engage to support their habits while they are behind bars.

At some point, it has to be admitted: being sympathetic to the drug users has not reduced their numbers, treating drug use as a ‘public health’ problem rather than a crime has not reduced crime, and has, in the end, done the addicts no favors. Surely it’s obvious by now: what Philadelphia has been doing so far hasn’t worked.

If Mayor Kenney, District Attorney Krasner, and Commissioner Outlaw were actually capable of feeling shame, they’d have resigned, taken what money they had, and moved to some small town out west where no one knew who they were.  If they were filled with indignation at what has happened to Philly, they’d gather themselves up and take action to deal with the internationally-known blight on the City of Brotherly Love, to clean up Kensington, even if it ran afoul of the way they’d rather do things, because the city has to do something, and do something different.

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