What’s billed as “harm reduction” is now drug-fueled chaos, possible sexual assault, and the open decay of a neighborhood.
East Harlem residents thought they had seen the worst of it. Then came the safe injection site. According to a disturbing New York Post report, life near the facility now includes public drug use, people passed out on sidewalks, and in perhaps the most depraved turn yet, sex acts happening in broad daylight for everyone to see.
In East Harlem, NYC where a legal drug collection point (at taxpayers’ expense), the local contingent has taken to having sex in broad daylight and in full view of everyone
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East Harlem Residents Confront Broad Daylight Predation
One local said it was like getting “my own porno show” from their living room window. That description almost sounds polite compared to the ugly reality. The footage shows a man slumped over and barely conscious from drugs while another man sexually assaults him in broad daylight. This is not harm reduction but predation in the open. City leaders are sanctioning a place where human dignity dies and forcing neighborhoods to live with scenes that belong in a criminal investigation.
New York City opened two supervised injection sites in 2021, claiming it would save lives and connect addicts with treatment. OnPoint NYC, which operates them, boasts that it has reversed over 1,700 overdoses with no deaths. Those numbers mean little to the families who now walk their kids past scenes that belong in a police report, not a public street.
Safe Injection Site Becomes Open-Air Sex Show
New York City’s controversial, taxpayer-funded “safe” injection site has reached a depraved new low — with addicts so zonked out they routinely have sex in broad daylight, often at the doorstep of neighbors forced to endure the X-rated free-for-all.
The Post witnessed the madness firsthand near OnPoint’s East Harlem headquarters on a recent Wednesday afternoon, as a horndog pair were conjoined for fifteen long minutes — and kept going even as pedestrians awkwardly walked past. – New York Post
The Post’s reporting makes it clear that the area around the East Harlem facility has become a lawless zone. People are shooting up in doorways, slumping over in front of schools, and committing sex acts in the open. Parents are put in the impossible position of having to explain to their children why strangers are half-naked on the sidewalk or why someone appears to be taking advantage of an unconscious person.
Compassion or Neglect? East Harlem Bears the Burden
Supporters of the sites argue that without them addicts would be in alleys, parks, or bathrooms with no medical oversight. That argument rings hollow when the result is drug use and possible sexual assaults happening in plain view of anyone walking by. East Harlem is already struggling with poverty, crime, and overburdened services. Adding a magnet for this kind of behavior is not compassion. It is neglect. And it raises the question of whether the city would ever put a facility like this in the Upper East Side or Tribeca.
Federal law still prohibits supervised injection sites. The city moved forward anyway, planting one of its most controversial experiments in a neighborhood that had no real say in the matter. President Trump’s Justice Department has flagged the sites as illegal and opened inquiries. Mayor Adams has backed away from expansion plans after mounting public backlash, but for East Harlem the damage is already done.
Urban Decay: From East Harlem to San Francisco
And this is not just a New York problem. Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia has become an open-air drug market where human suffering is on display 24/7. San Francisco’s streets are littered with needles and the bodies of people in crisis. In almost every case, these conditions exist in cities run by Democrats who talk about compassion but deliver chaos. I’ve written before about the political dysfunction behind these outcomes, including the recent Thomas Donlon lawsuit shaking NYC politics — a case study in how city leadership fails the people it claims to serve.
Addiction Is Tragic — Enabling It Is Worse
The people who live near these facilities did not agree to have their neighborhoods turned into stage sets for public drug use and sexual exploitation. The city sold them a policy experiment and ignored the moral and physical costs. Saving lives should never mean looking the other way while someone appears to be assaulted in public.
Addiction is a tragedy, but it does not excuse what is happening on these streets. Supervised injection sites may stop an overdose in the moment, but they are not stopping the slow-motion destruction of entire neighborhoods. In some cases, they are accelerating it.
If East Harlem Is the Model, America Is in Trouble
New York officials must confront the reality that this version of harm reduction has created a breeding ground for crime, indecency, and possible sexual violence. That means cleaning up the surrounding streets, enforcing laws against public lewdness, and shutting down any facility that cannot maintain basic public order. Anything less is surrender.
America needs to decide if this is acceptable. If East Harlem is the model, the rest of the country should prepare for what comes next. That would be drug-fueled chaos. Expect children walking past what looks like assault in progress. Expect city leaders to pretend it is compassion.
East Harlem deserves better. Every community does.
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