Sometimes it’s hard to imagine just what, exactly, Team de Blasio could’ve been thinking. That’s certainly the case with its program for junkies to place their used syringes in disposal bins in Bronx parks.
As The Post reported Friday, that harebrained idea has hardly led to cleaner parks. Rather, it’s sent the message that the city is perfectly OK with shooting up in its green spaces. If you’re not a druggie, and especially if you have kids, you might just want to avoid the area altogether.
As a Post analysis of Parks Department data shows, between May, when the program began, and October, nearly 60,000 syringes littered 14 parks and playgrounds in the Bronx where the disposal bins were placed; just 7,000 needles were deposited in the 44 locked boxes.
One drug user in St. Mary’s Park openly injected himself with an intravenous cocktail of heroin and cocaine right in front of a Post reporter.
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