Heroin Overdose Crisis

[News]

Heroin deaths are increasing because of government’s slow and inadequate response.

Heroin-fentanyl deaths in the 12th Judicial Circuit, which includes Sarasota, is soaring. In the first four months of 2015, there are already 48 deaths. [At that rate of growth, it will be 144 deaths for 2015].

There is also a wave of heroin overdoses at local hospitals and substance-abuse centers. In Sarasota County so far there are:
- 392 overdoses in 2013
- 400 overdoses in 2014
- 268 in the first half of 2015 [536 total overdoses projected at that rate of growth]

The killings will...

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article...verdose-crisis

[2nd floor clues]

Even the H-T editorial can see a heroin pattern here.

Illegal drugs are much easier for us to crack down on. Because they are totally prohibited, there is no reason for people to have them.

tOmMy, if illegal heroin is much easier for us to crack down on (because it's totally prohibited), then why have heroin deaths spiked to record-breaking levels on your watch in Sarasota County? Where is your plan to address it? Or are you just going to let the herd thin out?

Crime prevention isn’t just locking your doors and latching your windows. It’s looking at the trend and identifying what is creating it.

tOmMy, even Ray Charles can see a record-breaking pattern of heroin deaths and overdoses in Sarasota County. However, by your own statement to the media and to the public, addressing record breaking heroin deaths should be easier because it's completely illegal. Right? Or wrong? Or are you more concerned about embarrassing citizens when we show up to their domestic disputes while wearing body cameras? People in Sarasota County are dying in record-breaking numbers from heroin overdoses. Where is your plan? Oh you have none. That's right. There goes the herd.

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Illegal drugs are much easier for us to crack down on. Because they are totally prohibited, there is no reason for people to have them.

The heroin epidemic would be a political sleeper ***IF*** Knight had not made that comment publicly. It haunts him now because he has no credible excuse. He said it, but did he mean it? And if he meant it, then does he know what he's saying and doing? At least the Florida made it illegal for him to establish ticket quotas. lol too bad so sad.

[News]

A 2015 CDC report found deaths from heroin and prescription pain relievers (in the same drug family, like OxyContin) tripled between 2010 and 2013 in the United States. The heroin epidemic has also shifted to younger, whiter and more affluent users. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, over 169,000 Americans ages 12-and-over tried heroin for the first time in 2013, which is twice the number of first-time experimenters in 2006.

Bill Patrianakos is collaborating with the Robert Crown Center on software for a heroin prevention program that creates an interactive timeline of an average teenager’s journey from prescription pills to heroin — and, eventually, to overdose. Patrianakos says that no one nentions that "people do drugs because they feel good. They just make it seem like this horrible thing, that people who do drugs have something wrong with them and you don’t want to be like them." He said one of the most important things to understand is the gray area: "If you do heroin, you won’t get addicted right away."

According to the DEA, 80 percent of heroin comes from Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. Sinaloa’s elusive leader, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, escaped from prison this summer and he is now named "Public Enemy No. 1," which is a title that has not been held since it was given to Al Capone in the 1930s.

Youtube heroin prevention software demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3G-LlPK-I

Robert Crown Center's heroin-education center:
https://www.robertcrown.org/heroinprevention.shtml

Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/can-this-video...191136752.html

[SPI command school]

Ok, you read it here first. Knight is completely clueless and he doesn’t know what to do about the heroin epidemic, so Knight and his 2nd floor lapdogs have to come to leoaffairs to get some ideas to present during the next staff meeting. This is so sad that this crap has to be printed here to help reduce heroin deaths in Sarasota County.

Ok Tom, here is your long-term "strategic plan" on how to address the heroin epidemic. This is being typed S-L-O-W-L-Y so you can comprehend it better. Here's what you do:

Strategic 5-Point Bullet Plan to Reduce Heroin Deaths in Sarasota County:

• Step 1: Begin developing and then implement a "long-term strategic plan" on how to educate the community. It's not an overnight quick fix.
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• Step 2: Work in tandem with the Sarasota County school system on developing an educational curriculum to be used in the school system. The school system can take the lead on developing it, but curriculum designers will get "subject matter advice" from SROs/SRDs, who will be using SIS expertise.
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• Step 3: Get the SROs involved and working with the teachers on implementing the specialized heroin prevention curriculum.
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• Step 4: Get local rehab clinics "on board" with heroin help and with the media outreach educational programs.
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• Step 5: Develop a media campaign explaining to the public that the heroin epidemic cannot be addressed exclusively by law enforcement: It must be addressed during multi-pronged media outreach to:
  a. parents in the home (talk to your kids)
  b. school system (curriculum implementation: see step 2 above)
  c. first responders (they are the first to see: refer to step 4 above)
  d. hospital health care personnel (refer to step 4 above)
  e. law enforcement (last resort, excluding SROs)

Tom, normally we would not help you like this, but public safety is involved and your cluelessness and indecision is harming the community. The ball is now in your court. God help us because you haven't.

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He needs a drug zar that can handle the problem properly because whoever has been handling it isn't handling it. Time for a reorganization. This is something you can't f around with Tom. No time for favoritism here. Change the guard and take action with a man who can solve the problem. Lives are counting on it. No more second chances. He had his chance and all that he does is show you stats and numbers. Well those numbers are apparently wrong. So what has he and them (whoever they are) actually been doing? I think that you should just be able to open up "Intel Led Policing" and solve all these crimes. What a joke!

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I think that you should just be able to open up "Intel Led Policing" and solve all these crimes. What a joke!

Good post. Intelligence Led Policing (ILP) is an excellent theory that looks outstanding on paper, but in reality it's a joke, yet it's Mr. Knight's baby (his pride and joy).

Even a blind 2nd floor beggar can see that we have a heroin epidemic. Ok Tom, so we've identified a "crime trend" or a "crime pattern." What is your asinine ILP doing about it? Nothing! Because it won't work and you are listless. It takes a strategy to address the heroin epidemic (and you have no strategy).

Mr. Knight, you publicly said that heroin (and/or drugs that are completely illegal) are EASY to address. Tom, where is the easy fix? Where is any !@#$%^&* fix?

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Mr. Knight, you publicly said that heroin (and/or drugs that are completely illegal) are EASY to address. Tom, where is the easy fix? Where is any !@#$%^&* fix?

Knight either didn't know what he was say (clueless) ***OR*** he lied. You decide.