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Gov. Hochul’s drug-war surrender will be the death of NY neighborhoods

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Post Editorial Board

October 16, 2021 6:38pm 

 Updated

Oct. 7, 2021, will go down in history as the day that New York surrendered in the war on drugs. Not a shot was fired, except for the heroin or meth shot into the vein of a drug addict on the streets of Midtown, the South Bronx or Harlem.

Gov. Hochul last week signed into law a bill pushed by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) and backed overwhelmingly by the city’s Democratic delegation to the Legislature. It decriminalizes the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes by addicts to inject drugs. 

Touted as a move to reduce overdose deaths, it will instead be the death of downtowns and residential neighborhoods across the Empire State.

One result: NYPD cops are now under orders to let addicts freely shoot drugs and share needles. The Post had already reported recently on how junkies have overrun parks and other public spaces from Washington Square through Midtown to The Bronx. Hochul & Co. just guaranteed that it’ll grow worse.