‘Bad news for Seattle’: Curley worried San Francisco drug crackdown will push addicts north

After reports of the new mayor of San Francisco’s desire to allow officers to arrest people engaged in public drug use at a “speed and volume” never seen before, John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio, explained how the trickle-down effects would negatively impact Seattle.

Curley noted San Francisco’s Reset Center would provide people with an addiction three options: go to a shelter, get treatment, or go to jail. Rather than pick from the three solutions in San Francisco, Curley believed they’d choose to leave for Seattle, where the city is much more lax.

“This is good news for San Francisco, bad news for Seattle,” Curley said. “The people in San Francisco who don’t want to go to jail and don’t want to get hassled by the cops will get to Seattle. They’ve heard from other people about Seattle. Seattle is a great place. The drugs are really cheap. There are lots of different charities and nonprofits that will feed you. You can sleep on the streets, you can do whatever you want, and the cops won’t bother you. Go to where it’s good.”

Seattle’s ‘crappy’ drug treatment not built for recovery

Curley laid out how San Francisco plans to enforce its new policy and why Seattle would fail in attempting to do the same thing due to the city’s poor treatment programs.

“Cops come in. You’re smoking, shooting, whatever you’re doing. If I see you do it, bang, grab you. We go ahead and give you treatment. If you don’t want to do that, you go to jail. That’s it. The problem with Seattle is we’re very caring with everybody’s money, and we’re willing to spend everybody’s money on a bunch of crappy programs that really don’t do anything; we’re not asking anything of them.

“You’ve basically given up on that person. That’s the kind of love you get from Seattle,” Curley continued. “They’ll take the money from you, and they’ll apply it to their crappy programs, and you will see more people on the streets dying.”

Watch the full discussion in the video above.

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