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San Francisco is actually arresting drug addicts? What timeline are we living in? The city that became the poster child for enabling addiction just opened a "reset center" with a simple message: get sober, get arrested, or get out. This is the same city where a 400% increase in human excrement in mall elevators became normal. Now they're trying involuntary custodial intervention—words that would have triggered absolute meltdowns just five years ago.Meanwhile, Seattle is sprinting in the opposite direction, refusing to arrest anyone for public drug use while taxpayers fund addicts' apartments AND their tents. San Francisco hit rock bottom and said enough. They're drawing a line in the sand, even if it just means pushing the problem to Portland or Seattle. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not. But at least they're signaling they won't tolerate the chaos anymore.Is tough love the only thing that works with addiction? Why did it take San Francisco becoming a national embarrassment to try common-sense enforcement? Drop your thoughts below, and if you're tired of watching cities enable destruction, hit subscribe and that notification bell. We're tracking which cities learn the lesson and which ones double down on failure.
By Sean Reynolds4.3
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San Francisco is actually arresting drug addicts? What timeline are we living in? The city that became the poster child for enabling addiction just opened a "reset center" with a simple message: get sober, get arrested, or get out. This is the same city where a 400% increase in human excrement in mall elevators became normal. Now they're trying involuntary custodial intervention—words that would have triggered absolute meltdowns just five years ago.Meanwhile, Seattle is sprinting in the opposite direction, refusing to arrest anyone for public drug use while taxpayers fund addicts' apartments AND their tents. San Francisco hit rock bottom and said enough. They're drawing a line in the sand, even if it just means pushing the problem to Portland or Seattle. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not. But at least they're signaling they won't tolerate the chaos anymore.Is tough love the only thing that works with addiction? Why did it take San Francisco becoming a national embarrassment to try common-sense enforcement? Drop your thoughts below, and if you're tired of watching cities enable destruction, hit subscribe and that notification bell. We're tracking which cities learn the lesson and which ones double down on failure.

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