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This is KarenBass's plan for Los Angeles by giving away needles, crack pipes and dens to shoot up in.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faces criticism for a mayor-backed initiative worth over $1 million that funds the Sidewalk Project to distribute 25,000 safer smoking kits (crack pipes) and 75,000 sterile syringes in MacArthur Park. Although Bass publicly stated in a May 6 debate and to residents that she is against such handouts, city records confirm the contract was approved by the City Council in November 2024 following an introduction by her office.

Hoards of junkies continue to line up for free needles — distributed out of a black Jeep circling MacArthur Park — less than a week after Mayor Karen Bass distanced herself from the program.

The California Post was there Tuesday and watched syringes being handed out in the middle of the neighborhood’s spiraling drug crisis. The chaos unfolding around MacArthur Park has become one of the biggest political flashpoints in Los Angeles.

Residents and business owners say the area has spiraled into an open-air drug bazaar flooded with fentanyl, crack, meth and overdose emergencies.

“It’s the third time she has lied,” property owner John Alle told the Post. Alle, one of the loudest critics of conditions surrounding the park said he’s tired of empty promises from Bass.