Captain Australia’s Crime Fighting Journal, Entry#58
I’ve organised a trip to Sydney, where I intend to patrol Kings Cross all night on the 20th of May in the hopes of somehow influencing this outcome for the proprietor of Burgerz, a small local fast-food concern that is going belly-up.
The reason the business is failing is the dealers and addicts openly trading on the sidewalk outside their store. The dealers in fact being so brazen and aggressive as to scare honest patrons away.
Although it might put me on the wrong side of some very rough characters, I fully intend to address this problem, although I’ve been advised that it may be too-little-too-late for the guys at Burgerz. It’s a possibility that sometime in the next couple of weeks the business will permanently close.
I will attack this issue head-on either way. If I can’t help them, then there are other businesses and innocent citizens who will see me take a stand against the apathy and open criminality, and hopefully be inspired to take similar steps.
As I can’t beat up every single drug dealer that I meet, the only real way to solve the problem is at the community level. People need to be reminded that this criminal behaviour is wrong, and that their tolerance is tantamount to endorsement.
There is a legal injection room nearby and an exclusion zone law around it that allows addicts to carry a small amount of narcotics for personal use. This muddies the waters, in my opinion – why not simply decriminalise the drugs ? Push out the organised gangs dealing the dangerous crap that they’re selling, and introduce taxes and standards. But don’t declare something criminal and then in the same breath say “but its okay, if youre going to shoot up, just do it here”.
