by Travis Mateer
While NBC Montana is calling it a “slow roll out”, it appears the transformation of public parks into open air meth colonies is being tweaked (pun intended) by our Harvard-educated Mayor. What’s wrong, Mayor Davis, didn’t Harvard give you the answers to solving our urban camping problem?
The city brought portable toilets to about seven locations before removing them, Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis said at a community forum last Thursday. The rollout of Missoula’s new ordinance, which took effect a day after last month’s severe storm, is off to a slow start.
“We are visiting with our service providers now to think about ‘How do we start smaller?’ and looking to larger community parks that have more amenities, centrally located and that we can then focus our education and enforcement in those locations as well,” Davis said.
The city isn’t just enacting a “slow roll out” of their new ordinances. What the city actually appears to be doing is taking action, then reversing those actions when they get blowback. Even the maps are being removed (emphasis mine):
Davis acknowledged the frustration of many, saying she shares it because the city does not have the necessary resources. Ideally the city could buy up small motels to get homeless people off the street, so individuals can go to work, sleep better and get better access for services, she said.
The city of Missoula posted a map of some locations where camping is permitted; however, the city pulled the map down, citing changes in ordinance implementation.
“We’re not going to be identifying every single park in every neighborhood and then putting out a map on that,” Davis said. “It’s quite busy and actually not helpful. We’ve actually gone through the exercise and don’t believe it’s actually that helpful.”
This shit show is happening because our elected leaders are no longer fluent in a language I call REALITY, and because they don’t speak REALITY they can’t acknowledge what allowing the proliferation of urban meth colonies is actually doing to this community. Hell, I’m still trying to figure out what a NEEDLE TRAP looks like.
Does it look something like this?
People aren’t just “frustrated”, Mayor David, they are desperate and angry that you empower a Homeless Industrial Complex that has been failing this community for MANY YEARS. I know this because I was once a cog in that complex, but now I work to expose it and the people who use humans like shields to hide their schemes behind.
You know the kind of people I’m talking about, Mayor Davis, because they give you money.
I’m sure things will improve with a few more Harvard classes because those smart people on the other side of the country have a great track record of educating people, like a gifted young Ted Kaczynski.
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The incompetence is astounding. What was the point of putting into law a requirement for creating a map of locations for vagrants to find camping locations? It is now clear it was virtue signaling as it was a terrible idea that makes Missoula less safe. I wouldn’t be upset if someone came and sued the pants off the city for not upholding the law now that they have walked back that part of it, if only to force them to throw out the entire ridiculous ordinance and move back to banning the practice altogether. The city is run by clowns.