FBI Director Kash Patel and Senator Dave McCormick were in Allentown today for a roundtable on the fentanyl crisis. While their visit highlights the severity of the issue, there is a huge ongoing crisis that the local health department and police department rarely speak about publicly. I wonder why.
How many calls do Allentown EMS, fire, and police respond to where fentanyl is involved? The police department has data analysts on staff—I don’t know exactly what all they do, but tracking and publicly reporting these numbers should be a core task for them.
How many fentanyl arrests are made each year? How many overdoses involving fentanyl occur annually in Allentown and Lehigh County? Homicides may be down—and that’s the metric the mayor and police chief often highlight as a major success. But what about all the overdose deaths? Someone is selling this poison, and in a very real sense, they are killing people. It’s a different type of homicide, if you ask me.
Yes, people have a choice to use drugs, just like they have a choice to shoot someone. But that doesn’t absolve the dealers who flood our streets with a substance so potent it kills users—often unknowingly—by the hundreds.
The Mayor only ever highlights its accomplishments and never its downfalls. The mayor only says how great Chief Roca is, yet continues to hide all the things he isn’t accomplishing. Between the illegal dirt bikes, the huge juvenile gatherings, recent shootings, and the fentanyl problems, what is really being done? It’s all just smoke and mirrors.
What is the health department doing about this? Ms. Kistler, where are you? Haven’t seen you at a council meeting in a while.
(She makes me cringe. Eeeewww)
The public deserves transparent data on fentanyl-related emergency responses, arrests, and fatal overdoses. Shining a light on the full scope of this crisis—not just the declining homicide numbers—is essential to holding leaders accountable and driving real solutions.
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And we have a county commissioner siiting in jail awaiting trial for distribution of illegal narcotics. Yeah...no big deal right?No need to demand he resign, no need to censure him, and in fact some like Jeremy Irons offer support. Again, what's the big deal, right? The truth is anyone involved in illegal drug sales is sowing the seeds of misery, despair and death. The toll illegal drugs take, especially on the young is horrific.The reaper reaps the results of those who deal drugs. Those who have not condemned Cole-Borghi should themselves be condemned. Clearly they are themselves facilitators of this ongoing tragedy.
Abe, I agree with you. The chief and mayor only highlight the positives. They arent transparent and thats why people dont trust either of them. This is coming from someone who is friends with both of them.
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What a ridiculous comment. Of course, the mayor, the police chief, and anyone employed by the city should focus on the positives and work on what needs improvement. Why would they point out negatives to the community? How does that make the city a better place? If you are rwal friends with them, you would be asking what you could do to move the city forward instead of back stabbing.
Release the Cole-Borghi client list along with the Curtis report and Epstein files. There are probably surprising names on two of the three lists/reports.
hey! Matt and Vicky are giving way more attention to the fentanyl crisis than Matt has ever paid to the real city issues like: overspending at city hall, potholes, rise in crime, morale in the city workforce, quality of community events, homelessness crisis, etc. last night at council he mentioned that Frank Kane will be attending council meetings and he will no longer be at them (win win for those who attend or watch!!)
Well, he wasn’t there to begin with. He is further proving that his goal is to be an absent mayor. I am sure that he has been on Expedia.com planning his trips for the remainder of his term.
at least the drug addicts have vending machines on the streets.
Epstein! Epstein! Epstein! and a certain prez molesting a 13 year old, just in case this is just another gov. move to make the public forget.
On the other hand, The Drug War on our citizens has always been a great distraction and a grab for power since alcohol prohibition was shot down. Everytime I see an article or tv news item about a drug bust all I can think is: "Wow, another huge waste of my tax dollars". Or maybe I just don't get the attitude that the drugs are going to come smashing thru my front door. Having researched the history of The Drug War on our citizens that has taken place since the early 1900's one fact struck me besides the lust for power over our citizens, (and usually minority and less affluent citizens) is that every dollar spent on rehabilitation and education has twice the effect of keeping our population off drugs than money spent on enforcement and jail time. But "coddling" does not sell well in politics even if it is actually more beneficial. So guess where more money goes? (What's that? Why yes, our country does have the largest portion of its population in jail in the world!) More power to those prison guard unions supporting anti-legalization candidates!
So shock me, that our ped prez and associates will resort to the old scary standard as they try to shock, awe, and distract from their buffoonery and some certain promised files.
Is it backstabbing to tell the truth about elected and appointed officials who have the power to effect our lives?
9:15 plenty of interesting names have come out of the already released Epstein files, sadly for many, the name everyone wanted was never there, if it was, it would have been released when Biden's Justice department had the list. In the meantime, several socialist elected officials in Europe have had their Epstein connections exposed and Euro royalty as well. All very amusing.
War on drugs? What war on drugs? Until Trump started blowing up narco speed boats in the water there has been very little effort to interdict the importation of illegal dangerous and addictive drugs into America. While this was happening several states legalized certain drugs, Oregon legalized even possession of hard drugs. The results were predictable and in short order possession of hard drugs was again illegal. States such as Colorado legalized pot sales and possession and the result was a significant inflow of narcotics users into the state and an increased of drug use among youth. States that legalize pot see a 10% increase in pot use among youth. Meanwhile, when was the last time any of us heard or saw a public service announcement warning of the dangers of drug use? I haven't seen or heard one in decades. Why not? Lives, many young lives are destroyed by drug use. In recent years 50,000 -100,000 young people have died annually from illegal drugs. Can we carelessly brush these numbers aside? Many drugs are illegal because they are dangerous and destructive when used as escape or entertainment. Note how many died when they are illegal, making them legal will lead to more drug use and more overdose deaths. I have loads of sympathy for those who become addicted to drugs, I have no sympathy for those who sell the drugs to them. The Cole-Borghi's of world should be scorned for what they are, purveyors of addiction and misery. He deserves no sympathy or support.
Yeah! and don't forget how many are dying from the legalization of booze! It must be put a stop to immediately!---(this message sponsored by your local Mafia and Prison Guard Union)
Narco Boats, fishing boats, illegally machine gunning down survivors of the wreckages? Who cares? It got the Epstein-Trump Files out of the news for a week or so...
ABE how many of these so called over doses are just murder by a hotshot supplied by a friend or neighbor? The simple metrics are not a true measure of factual statistics that are true not one-sided. They all have there heads in there asses on this one because any news sells.
Iran Drug enforcement:
Death Penalty: The death penalty is mandated for traffickers of large quantities, including:
Opium/Hashish: More than 5 kilograms.
Heroin/Morphine/Cocaine/Methamphetamine: More than 30 grams.
Repeat Offenses: Repeat offenses for smaller quantities (e.g., third conviction for 5–20 kg of opium) can also result in execution.
Imprisonment and Flogging: For smaller amounts, punishments include long-term imprisonment, heavy fines, and corporal punishment (flogging/lashes).
Armed Trafficking: Armed drug smuggling brings harsh penalties, and such executions are sometimes carried out in public.
Despite some amendments in 2017 to limit the death penalty for non-violent offences, drug offenses still account for a majority of Iran's high number of annual executions.
Drinking alcohol is illegal in Iran for Muslim citizens and is punishable under Islamic law, often resulting in 80 lashes. Repeated offenses, particularly if caught multiple times, can lead to severe penalties, including the death penalty. These strict laws are enforced, and consequences can be fatal for repeat offenders.
Seee, sometimes you just have to look past the differences and see what you have in common. Like the fact that their drugs and drinking numbers have been steadily going up, even with the death penalty enforcement. huh, go figure.
Is that the best you have? So because people get addicted and die from alcoholism that somehow justifies legalizing narcotics? Mankind has been consuming and too often abusing alcohol has long as history has been written. However, use and sale of alcohol in America is and has been tightly controlled. For instance it's illegal to sell to minors, it's illegal to sell or serve alcohol to drunks. It illegal to sell after hours...illegal drug sales have no government oversight, therefore their are no rules. The sad result are what they are. Legalizing drugs has lead to products that appeal specifically to youth. Pot infused gummy bears for instance. Has anyone condemned this and similar practices? Not as far as I know. Why not? If an alcohol product was marketed to underage youth there would be quick outcry against it. I have friends who smoke pot, we all do, they seem to use it responsibility, they do so because they are responsible people. Sadly as with alcohol others don't and here is the problem, mankind knows alcohol, narcotics aren't so well known. Fentanyl, meth, crack...enter the culture as unknowns and ruin and end to many lives. New illegal drugs will be rolled out as consumer products in the future.When was a new alcoholic beverage guilty of wreaking similar destruction?Cole-Borghi acted as a facilitator of this destruction. Yes, alcohol is the devil we know, narcotics are the devil that continuously finds new ways to destroy the user.
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