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2026-05-23 Home Front: Politix

Spencer Pratt Releases Bold 5-Step Treatment-First Plan to End LA's Drug-Driven Homelessness Crisis

[California Globe] In a nine-minute video, Pratt framed the issue not as a housing shortage but as a drug addiction epidemic fueled by failed leadership, profiteering NGOs, and open cartel activity

Citing data that over 90 percent of LA’s unsheltered homeless population consists of hardcore illicit drug users, Pratt argues that current "housing-first" approaches, free needles, and repeated Narcan revivals enable addiction rather than end it. His plan emphasizes mandatory treatment using existing laws and ordinances, enforcement, repatriation, cartel crackdowns, and long-term recovery support. Here are the five points of Pratt’s plan, with Pratt’s comments:

STEP ONE: Break the Cycle Pratt calls for immediately halting the distribution of drug paraphernalia by NGOs and replacing short-acting Narcan with longer-lasting Vivitrol after the statutory hold. He highlights the critical "donut hole" period between Narcan’s short-term effect and Vivitrol eligibility as the key intervention point. "Stop the cycle. You wouldn’t let him defecate and die in the streets. You’d grab him... No more distribution of drug paraphernalia by NGOs... Replace Narcan with Vivitrol... This donut hole is the linchpin for winning this war against addiction."

STEP TWO: We Have the Laws — We Just Need to Use Them Pratt plans to fully utilize existing LA ordinances and laws, including amending and enforcing SB 43 to classify severe substance use disorder as "gravely disabled." This enables mandatory 5150 psychiatric holds (72 hours) for detention and evaluation, extendable treatment periods of up to two weeks (to bridge the Narcan-to-Vivitrol gap), and conservatorship for up to a year if needed—all framed as mandatory rehab, not incarceration. "Common-sense law amending SB 43 to classify severe drug users as gravely disabled... This law allows the city and county to place street drug users on a 5150 hold... This isn’t jail. This is mandatory rehab. This is what you do for people you care about."

STEP THREE: End the Body Brokering Pratt accuses certain NGOs of trafficking addicts from other states into LA to exploit funds. He proposes providing free transportation home for the estimated 30 percent or more of street addicts who were bused in from out of state, "Bused in from other states in order for local NGOs to profit off their addiction... As soon as I am Mayor, every addict who was trafficked here from outside LA is getting a free ride home, back to their families... End the body brokering."

STEP FOUR: Bring in the DEA Pratt pledges to partner with federal authorities to dismantle transnational cartels operating openly in tents, abandoned buildings, and Section 8 housing, flooding streets with fentanyl and meth. "Dismantle the rampant transnational cartels that are terrorizing our city... There’s a new Sheriff in town... We cannot solve a drug problem with more overpriced housing scams."

STEP FIVE: A Modern Treatment Facility Pratt has partnered with developers to construct a large, secure treatment campus offering medical detox, job training, exercise facilities, and "civil rehab" through community service to rebuild purpose and skills. "I’m putting an end to this profiteering... A modern treatment facility... Beyond drug treatment, addicts will receive job training... We don’t have a housing problem, we have a drug problem. Blocking them is the drugs."
Video at link. It is very watchable. Imagine a common sense approach to homelessness instead of the profit motives of Karen Bass and her fellow corruptocrats.
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Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-05-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1807 views ] Top

1 It is a nice plan, but I don't see how anybody makes any money. Probability: Unlikely

Posted by SteveS 2026-05-23 08:22|| 2026-05-23 08:22|| Front Page Top

2 Kurt Schlichter agrees with you, SteveS. See his piece in today’s Opinion page.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-23 10:52|| 2026-05-23 10:52|| Front Page Top

3 I think the idea is to present a plan that people believe is rational and force the opposition to discuss their plan.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-05-23 12:14|| 2026-05-23 12:14|| Front Page Top

4 Of course there's no money in it. That's the appeal to taxpayers who might be wondering where all the billions went. The challenge for Pratt is to somehow make those taxpayers/voters think about it. Yes, it's a big challenge. Bass is an entrenched, old school Bolshevik with a helluva lotta money in her war chest and the media in her purse. But it's nice to see somebody give it a try.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-05-23 12:51|| 2026-05-23 12:51|| Front Page Top

5 But as far as I can tell we have no effective treatment for fentanyl addiction. Thanks, China.

Posted by Matt 2026-05-23 13:07|| 2026-05-23 13:07|| Front Page Top

6 AFIK, nobody has even tried to treat fentanyl addiction. Politicians like Bass prefer to give them clean syringes and pipes. They don't mind if addicts die every day because new ones come here from other states. As long as Bass can keep funnelling billions of taxpayer dollars to bogus programs like Inside Safe she'll keep doing that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-05-23 14:02|| 2026-05-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

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