in a statement, foundation ceo tyler tamir saying in part, quote, reports of an initiative advocating for mass arrests along the sixth street corridor as a pathway to treatment or detox are deeply concerning and counterproductive. decades of research have shown that criminalizing people for their health conditions or circumstances perpetuates harm, rather than fosters recovery. forced treatment under the threat of incarceration undermines trust in health services. >> i would challenge them to show me the studies. i think what people tend to show when they look at these studies, they're looking at studies that are showing that people who don't have severe substance use disorders. >> dorsey pointing out that he's approaching the problem as someone who once struggled with substance abuse himself. >> this made politics personal to me in a way that it had never been personal before. and right now, i feel like there's a lot of people from the recovery community who are joining with me in saying, we have to do something about the scale of public drug use that's going on in our city. >> in sa

in a statement, foundation ceo tyler tamir saying in part, quote, reports of an initiative advocating for mass arrests along the sixth street corridor as a pathway to treatment or detox are deeply concerning and counterproductive. decades of research have shown that criminalizing people for their health conditions or circumstances perpetuates harm, rather than fosters recovery. forced treatment under the threat of incarceration undermines trust in health services. >> i would challenge them to show me the studies. i think what people tend to show when they look at these studies, they're looking at studies that are showing that people who don't have severe substance use disorders. >> dorsey pointing out that he's approaching the problem as someone who once struggled with substance abuse himself. >> this made politics personal to me in a way that it had never been personal before. and right now, i feel like there's a lot of people from the recovery community who are joining with me in saying, we have to do something about the scale of public drug use that's going on in our city. >> so wh

and i wanted to jump on that point before it got stale and again, ten weeks, you know, as tamir i came out, you know, for dinner and, you know, eight way too much and drank drank too much coffee and, you know, didn't really take good care of my health. but i the book, you know, i wrote the book in ten weeks and just pounded it out. unbelievable. and there's so much that you're saying here, which i think deserves digging into a little bit. so i just like sometimes we sit with these these vestigial like fossils from the past. one of them is the two state solution. so hear it again and again and again and. any time anybody talks about israel, it's is, you know, upending the process, delaying the process of the two state solution. and netanyahu is a prime minister is not fostering enough support to create this and paving a way. we hear this all the time and i'm just curious as to why where that came from like why why why it goes back in to go back to 1936 peel commission going back to the partition plan in 1947, the partition plan of the un voted here in queens you go back to the numerous

in a statement, foundation ceo tyler tamir saying in part, quote, reports of an initiative advocating for mass arrests along the sixth street corridor as a pathway to treatment or detox are deeply concerning and counterproductive. decades of research have shown that criminalizing people for their health conditions or circumstances perpetuates harm, rather than fosters recovery. forced treatment under the threat of incarceration undermines trust in health services. >> i would challenge them to show me the studies. i think what people tend to show when they look at these studies, they're looking at studies that are showing that people who don't have severe substance use disorders. >> dorsey pointing out that he's approaching the problem as someone who once struggled with substance abuse himself. >> this made politics personal to me in a way that it had never been personal before. and right now, i feel like there's a lot of people from the recovery community who are joining with me in saying, we have to do something about the scale of public drug use that's going on in our city. >> in sa

tamir was taken when he was 18 _ october. tamir was taken when he was 18 years _ october.amir was taken when he was 18 years old. _ october. tamir was taken when he was 18 years old. he - october. tamir was taken when he was 18 years old. he is - october. tamir was taken when he was 18 years old. he is an i he was 18 years old. he is an idf soldier, but his unit deals with humanitarian issues in gaza, so ironically he was taken early that morning. he managed to text to me that morning asking me if i was ok. he had no idea that terrorists were already inside his race where he was texting me, and i asked him to take good care of himself and text me whenever he can. and 20 minutes afterwards, he was brutally taken by hamas terrorists. the way we found out was through my youngest daughter. she was ia at the time. she came to me around four o'clock that saturday screaming that she had seen her brother being abducted over instagram, and she came to me with this video where i saw my son hiding his face, scared, with his pyjamas. he was barefoot, he had no glasses on and he was te