The Cost of Doing Nothing: Drugs, Crime & a City on Edge | Feature with Mike, Paul and Anthony

Barrie has declared a state of emergency—not for natural disaster, but due to escalating urban disorder. In this urgent episode, host Mike Wixson joins Anthony Furey and Paul Micucci to dissect the city’s rising encampments, open-air drug markets, and public health risks threatening local communities.

Explore why smaller cities like Barrie are disproportionately affected, the failures of current policies, and what tough but compassionate solutions could look like.

Key takeaways:

• The realities behind Barrie’s state of emergency declaration

• The high costs and limited success of current encampment tolerance

• Comparing crackdowns and solutions from other jurisdictions

• The “flood the zone” model: zero tolerance, drug courts, treatment beds

• Balancing policing, social work, and public health for real outcomes Subscribe for more conversations like this.

 

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