A man prepares to use a syringe to inject a substance in a woman's leg in The Hub on November 27, 2024 in the Bronx, N.Y.
It is a window into a broken system that is fundamentally failing the people of New York where it matters most: on the core government functions of public safety and public health. Gov. Kathy Hochul ripped for ‘tone-deaf’ tweet about improved subway safety after sleeping straphanger fatally lit on fireWhy should the people of the South Bronx be forced to see drug addicts injecting themselves with fentanyl in the presence of their children?
No longer should the political establishment expect us to simply shut up and accept open-air drug dealing as a new normal.It is no secret that we are governed by political insiders who are quick to congratulate themselves but slow to admit failure and learn from it.