Used Needles in the Parks: Blas Sticks It to NYers
The difference between New York City’s mayors is never more obvious than in the problems faced by Bronx residents (“Junkies park in Bx. plaza,” May 24).
The Post’s story about the 5,000 needles a week scattered in Bronx parks shows how liberals like Mayor de Blasio respond to crime. He doesn’t consider that each of those 5,000 needles represents a robbery, camera theft or purse-snatching, car break-in or apartment burglary.
When you total all of the syringes in all of the five boroughs, you understand the importance of making arrests for these crimes.
Liberal mayors like de Blasio refuse to understand what Republican mayors like Rudy Giuliani did: Crime, no matter how small, has a rippling effect across society. Rene Jax Yonkers
Liberalism is a disease, and the only way to solve the crisis of addicts shooting up in public parks and leaving their used needles everywhere is to vote bums like Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio out of office. Leonard P. Daniels Manhattan
The prevalent drug use in St. Mary’s and Washington Square parks is symptomatic of a much larger problem: inadequate drug-user rehabilitation resources.
Traditionally, the government has spent way more money on drug interdiction than on convalescence resources for addicts. That’s why you see so many drug users in public — they have nowhere to turn. Often, the super-long rehabcenter waiting list leaves narcotics-hooked vic- tims with no realistic shot at getting treatment.
Until the government steps up to the plate with far more rehabilitation-program money, expect to see the status quo of park drug use remain the same. Tom Boud Bloomingdale, NJ
With the full support of our mayor, drug addicts can feel free to use our public parks to shoot up addictive drugs instead of going for treatment.
What a nice quality of life for us — we can take our kids to the park and witness this. Welcome to de Blasio’s New York. Thanks to all who twice elected this bum into office. Saul J. Mishaan Brooklyn
As a lifelong New York City resident and retired detective, I’ve seen the carnage of the 1980s and 1990s. NYC was a bloodbath. Crack was smoked on the street, gangs were killing each other and witnesses’ houses were burned.
This fool of a mayor seems to want to take the city back to those days. Dan Gardner Staten Island Mayor de Blasio needs to clear the junkies out of St. Mary’s Park. His pothead constituents need to use the property to smoke. Robert C. Mangi Westbury
After reading The Post’s story on the 5,000 needles found in parks in The Bronx over a week’s time, it occurred to me that the mayor’s plan to open up injection sites for heroin users is already in progress. If that many people are getting high every week in these parks, then it’s obvious police are not making any arrests.
Instead of legal injection sites, why doesn’t our incompetent mayor just open up other city parks for heroin users instead? Tony Rotunno Staten Island
What the heck is going on in New York City under de Blasio?
These addicts that litter infectious waste in the people’s parks need to be arrested and sent to mandatory drug rehab. The people should demand this and expect nothing less.
Taxpayers and the addicts deserve much better from their mayor. Brian Sullivan Rockaway Beach