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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why was there no description of the assailant in the linked article? It says witnesses held him/them. Was this random or targeted? [/quote]

It was targeted. There is a link to a tweet containing the police report in this thread.

The stabber claims the deceased sold him bad drugs that caused him to OD. He had previously burned the tent of the deceased and there was a recent tent fire near the metro. Then he stabbed him.

The dynamics of drug use, dealing, mental illness and violence/criminal behavior have generally been recognized as significant in the population of those who choose to live outside and use, for self medication of mental illness or otherwise. Current street drugs can trigger mental illness or cause brain damage, see The Atlantic article on current versions of meth. Others who are unhoused use shelters and comply with rules or have families or acquaintances willing to allow them to couch surf.

Previously, courts would incentivize treatment or rehab by trading off sentences for misdemeanors. Now that so much has been decriminalized, there is not the same carrot available, nor are those who commit crimes held as often as in the past. That provided a time of drying out and stabilization that could have led to insight re: treatment. Now the cycle has fewer points of possible change.

Anyone who looks at MPD releases re: arrests will see how many involve the unhoused. Living in tent smoking meth does not automatically make you Mr. Rogers. Many violent crimes are caused by unhoused people in one or more categories of addiction, mental illness or past violent & criminal behavior. Many are involved in the drug trade. The myth of Housing First has pushed the propaganda that sticking people from tents or Union Station into apartments in NW will transform the core issues. Treatment for mental illness or addiction is voluntary. Advocates wax poetic about the "communities" the same ones in which many homeless are raped, killed and OD. Homeless Inc is big money for SO many, but it makes it off the back of human misery, it's cruel. There are also huge public safety issues. It works only for those who financially profit off of it. [/quote]

Where did they buy drug and who are the sellers?  If the government and police confiscated the drugs on streets, it will save a lots of people, housed and unhoused.  [/quote]

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