Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton has criticized New York City’s decision to install vending machines that provide items for drug addicts such as crack pipes and fentanyl test strips, warning that the move encourages people to continue using drugs.
“The world has turned upside down,” Bratton said in an interview with 77 WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” with John Catsimatidis on June 18 while talking about the city’s drug situation. “Instead of trying to get people away from drugs, we have policies now where we have vending machines to encourage them to stay on drugs. We’re going to make it safer for you to use drugs so you can spend the rest of your life not trying to get off drugs but to stay on drugs.”
