Her strategy to shut down the open air drug market represents a significant departure in policy for the city, where arrests for crimes like drug use and sex work have plummeted over the last decade.
The mayor admits that her approach isn’t popular. Some say the criminal justice and drug treatment systems can’t handle more.
“It will not get resolved in the first 30 days. I want to manage expectations. This has been a systemic, ongoing problem for several years,” he said. Long wait times and a toxic drug supply make it difficult for Philadelphia patients to get addiction treatment ”It is dangerous and frankly naïve to think we can just incarcerate people who have active addiction to fentanyl and exposure to xylazine without the right systems in place to take care of their health,” said Ashish Thakrar, an addiction medicine physician at Penn Medicine.
The number of people arrested for sex work has also plummeted since 2014, when more than 1,000 people were arrested for prostitution. Last year, 142 people were, according to data from the District Attorney’s Office. Only two were charged. “If there is an increase in arrests and detainment, we don’t have the luxury of not taking anybody,” he said. “We have to manage that.”The majority of people arrested for sex work and drug possession are diverted before they reach the courts through the city’s Police Assisted Diversion program, or PAD.
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