British Police to Hand Out Free Heroin to Criminals

Progressives progress. Handing out free needles to help junkies wallow in degeneracy is no longer cutting edge; lots of liberal-run cities are doing it — most conspicuously San Francisco, which provides junkies with 4.45 million free needles per year. Proposing government-run shooting galleries is also old hat. So the social engineers went farther. Norway has announced plans to provide not merely free needles, but free heroin. Britain is following suit:

Fifteen of the most prolific offenders in Middlesbrough will be able to inject the Class A drug three times a day at a special NHS clinic from this month.

NHS = National Health Service, Britain’s national socialized healthcare system.

The scheme, the first of its kind in England, was created by under-fire Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner Barry Coppinger.

Cleveland County’s police force is at the vanguard of dysfunction. It is “the first force in the country to be branded failing by watchdogs,” having been rated “inadequate in every area” in a recent report. Commissioner Coppinger is already stepping down in wake of the report, so he won’t be around to face the inevitable consequences of handing out free heroin to criminals at a projected cost to taxpayers of £440,000 per annum.

Internal reports from Mr Coppinger’s office reveal that the 15 people chosen to benefit from the pilot scheme are addicts with criminal records.

Just as no good deed goes unpunished, under moonbattery, no bad deed goes unrewarded.

The reasoning behind the program is that the junkies will stop stealing to finance their habit if Big Government does it for them.

At least if it were the Mafia taking our money and not Big Government, it wouldn’t be spent turning our cities into sewers. But from the bureaucrats’ point of view, it all makes sense. Sewer rats don’t vote Tory or Republican.

On a tip from Don M.

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