I didn’t say being publicly intoxicated, I said publicly using drugs. As in they were shooting up while kids were being taken to storytime past them on the way to the library.

We have a solution for this as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_injection_site

Proven highly effective for reducing crime, mitigating the need for emergency response, curtailing disease spread, and channeling addicts to rehabilitation clinics

But because it comes off as permissive and benevolent, rather than punitive and prohibitionary it remains Haram in much of the US.

In America, your local public library does more to help homeless people than anything you have probably done yourself

It’s a public service staffed with dozens of people. Of course a single person isn’t going to do more in spare time than a team of people doing the work professionally.

But that doesn’t excuse the rest of the state for tearing out local infrastructure as a means of tormenting the homeless.

“I did two good things so I have permission to do one bad thing” isn’t sounds public policy.