Mayor Daniel Lurie continues to look for more ways to arrest drug users, and the latest is a forced “sobering center.” The evidence is pretty clear that forced sobriety doesn’t work (although safe-injections sites, which the mayor is not proposing, do).

Former Sup. Dean Preston points out on Bluesky that the city’s policies on the unhoused these days are remarkably similar to an executive order issued by Donald Trump called “ending disorder on America’s streets.” It includes:

The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation shall take immediate steps to assess their discretionary grant programs and determine whether priority for those grants may be given to grantees in States and municipa

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