Karen Bass says no to needles as syringe handouts continue in drug-ravaged MacArthur Park

Source: New York Post

Hoards of junkies continue to line up for free needles — distributed out of a black Jeep circling MacArthur Park — less than a week after Mayor Karen Bass distanced herself from the program. The California Post was there Tuesday and watched syringes being handed out in the middle of the neighborhood’s spiraling drug crisis. The chaos unfolding around MacArthur Park has become one of the biggest political flashpoints in Los Angeles.