This seems like it’s bad for society.
These images are just ridiculous.
We are desensitized to them now, because this is all just normal, but come on.
Unstable, strung-out homeless weirdos have swarmed large parts of Manhattan’s West Side, littering streets with needles and menacing locals and tourists alike — and there’s no help in sight.
The invasion of homeless, mentally ill and drug-abusing people is a full-blown “humanitarian crisis” greeting millions of tourists and office workers who arrive in Midtown and its highly trafficked surrounding neighborhoods, wrote Councilman Eric Bottcher in a recent letter to the mayor asking for aid.
“Our neighborhoods need help right now,” he wrote. “The status quo cannot be allowed to continue.”
West Side wackadoos — including one dead-eyed junkie wandering with a needle sticking out of his hand along 36th Street near bustling Penn Station — were out in force as The Post visited the neighborhoods over the past two weeks.
A bedraggled security guard, who only gave Fisher as his name, said he sees doped-up derelicts do drugs “all day and all night” in the public courtyard at the Midtown Holiday Inn hotel along Eighth Avenue’s infamous “strip of despair.”
“It’s crazy out here,” the battle-weary Midtown security guard, 50, said.
“They even have sex out here on the benches. They pee and defecate here.”
Entire swaths of the West Side, including near Washington Square Park, the West Fourth Street subway station in the West Village and the Garment District, are “particularly dire,” Bottcher wrote.
I don’t think anyone can deny that this is Democrat official policy – they are pro “homeless street junkie mania.”
But JD Vance is weird.
Actually, JD Vance is really weird, and no one likes him, and it was a bizarre move to introduce him into the mix. The Democrats are right about that.
But being actively pro-junkie street mania is also weird.
No one likes this.
No one says “one of the things I really like about living here is all of the homeless junkies living on the streets and taking shits in public.”
What happened to “the taxpayer” as an entity that had some say in what is going on in the community?