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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Dangerous is a relative word. 99% of them will not come after you and try to assault or stab you. Ask any emergency room psychiatrist or street team volunteer across many cities; them violently attacking is very much an exception to the rule.
To conflate things like talking to themselves, shouting, making a mess and erratic behavior with actual propensity to commit random violence is one reason why stigma exists against drug addicts. I'm not saying its impossible, but violently attacking random people - without provoking it - is improbable in most cases.
People who get attacked from "dangerous, irrational people" - violently - usually have provoked it in some form or fashion. That's my experience. It would be advisable to have street smarts whether around a safe injection site or not.
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Well what would you consider provoking? I don't think looking people in the eyes or walking past them should count, that's unavoidable in lot of cases, anything short of verbal engagement or gestures shouldn't count. Certainly my car didn't do any provoking to the gentleman who decided to take a bat to it. I highly doubt the guys boss who got stuck was chirping at some junky on his way to work just to mess with him. I've been in the Chumir emergency room at 2 am with these people there and they will violently engage with people for no reason at all, I can promise you that I've seen it happen all three times I've been there. It's rare, I can agree with you and I'm not saying they're raging all day but they're orders of magnitude more dangerous than normal people and the spike in violent crime around the SIS since they began congregating there bears that out in hard data.