CLEMENT ON DRUGS WHEN IT COMES TO INSITE

To the editor:

If VPD inspector John McKay did in fact suggest that no one was
shooting up in business doorways prior to Insite opening, that would
be false.

I did a temporary Friday morning shift at Co-op radio in the spring of
2003, a few months before Insite opened later that year. I recall
stepping around people shooting up in the doorway there.

As well, "culture of entitlement" sounds a bit like "axis of evil."
It's a nice phrase to whip up opposition and manipulate a point of
view. It doesn't belong in any phrase that describes activities going
on in Canada's poorest postal code.

I do think, though, that "culture of entitlement" could be applied to
the police force and those with the power to enforce policies on
issues they seem to know relatively little about.

Phoenix Wisebone,
Vancouver