In November, Donald Trump led to a significant election rise in New York's black and Latino neighborhoods, as well as the city's wealthiest communities. Now he is poised to take an important step towards improving public safety in these voters' neighborhoods.
Last week, Rep. Nicole Mariotakis (R-SI) wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondy, calling for the administration to close two “safe injection sites” in the city.
Located in East Harlem and Washington Heights, these facilities provide supervision for substance abusers to consume harmful substances such as fentanyl, meta, heroin and cocaine.
Yes, these are illegal drugs under federal law, and the appropriate nickname, called the federal government's “crackhouse law,” prevents individuals from maintaining their property for consumption.
In fact, Trump's Justice Department has successfully shut down similar sites in the past.
In 2019, his first administration called for the opening of the Philadelphia Infusion Center to halt the opening of the Philadelphia Infusion Center, and in 2024 a US District Judge in Pennsylvania finally agreed that the center was not exempt from federal drug laws. I did.
It was a great relief for the surrounding Philadelphia area. This was enraged by the sleazy lack of transparency regarding plans to attract drug dealers to the community.
Now, Trump needs to listen to his NYC minority constituents and close the injection site that is hurting the neighborhood.
Both New York centres, both run by nonprofits, were the first in the nation to open in 2021 under the then Mayor de Blasio.
De Blasio gambled well about not intervening the Biden administration.
OnPoint claims it saved more than 1,000 lives by preventing overdose. But as my colleague Charles Fain pointed out, the site doesn't reduce addiction. delay Death: More than 15% of naloxone administered die within one year.
In fact, data show that NYC's overdose rates have continued to rise since the centre was opened.
That's not surprising as it even offers from the most advertised injection sites in other countries. no Evidence of their effectiveness.
But strictness was not a calling card for politicians and supporters who would be willing to sacrifice other A community of people in the name of compassion.
Sen. Gustabolibela (D-Bronx) had Chutzpah to argue that “priced public drug use, syringe litter and drug-related crimes will be reduced” around the site. In 2023, Rivera urged Governor Hochul to expand supervised consumption sites across the state, sponsoring Senate legislation – the committee has it on the committee.
In 2023, Mayor Eric Adams proposed adding three more facilities to NYC, but may be able to respond to pressure from Washington to update his opinion.
And if Trump cares about the lives of locals, that pressure comes.
Massive crime has fallen by 13% in northern Manhattan over the past two years, but almost 8% have seen predominantly black and Hispanic precincts around East Harlem Drug Site rise With a major crime.
We toured the location with the Greater Harlem Union. Members pointed to a large early growth education center facing the street directly from the injection site as parents rushed to the school with an obvious view of the ongoing drug deal.
The boundaries of the blocks are dotted with nodding addicts. Nearby restaurants had to invest in civilian safety to protect the crimes the centre was attracting to their neighborhoods.
What has been making this site open despite four years?
Shameless advocacy by gorgeous, ideologically motivated and race-obsessed elites. . . Those kids don't go to kindergarten in Harlem.
In August, Sean Hill, co-founder of the Greater Harlem Coalition, was interviewed by one such illicit advocate. Ryan McNeill, director of Hazard Reduction Research at Yale University School of Medicine.
McNeil was conducting a “study” funded on a safe injection site, but as “hot microphone” records were taken, he and his colleagues were able to pose a safe injection site (and drug non-criminal).のです。 English: It was entirely intended to bias the findings to support such as the following.
There is no sense of irony, and McNeil, who is himself a white man, corns Harlemites' concerns about open drug abuse to “white discomfort,” and that Yale researchers should roam and talk about actual locals. I've deduced the hill suggesting.
But Trump has every reason to listen to these locals, three-quarters of whom are black or Latino.
And, facing a busy primary race this summer, Adams will reverse his past stance and voice support for the federal closure of the city's two drug consumption sites.
In East Harlem, Trump has won about 860 votes since last year in 2020. Now these supporters, and their neighbors he has not yet persuaded, rely on his help.
Hannah E. Myers is a police and public safety fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of public safety.
