Following the incident, Sedaris, a former methamphetamine addict himself, was struck by the fact that most people in Portland didn’t seem concerned about the state of the city – even the medical worker who treated him appeared more concerned with the dog’s well-being than what had happened to him: Somehow Velasquez survived the ordeal and police traced the two criminals to a house in a Portland suburb that police reports describe as a drug den, with “residents possibly using drugs in the back yard, large numbers of people coming and going at night, possibly entire vans full of people, and people being dazed or drugged… and on a few occasions groups of young women or girls being present at the address.” According to the Wall Street Journal, of the thousands of tickets for drug use Oregon police handed out in the first three years the law was in effect, just 1% of the addicts called the number to connect them with treatment.
Author: Mark Hemingway, Real Clear Wire
Published at: 2026-02-07 20:40:28
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