Harm Reduction, a misnomer. Enabling drug usage benefits no one, except those who profit from the drug trade. We have the statistics. We know we are spreading more harm than good. Stop. Enforce laws that limit this scourge. If we voters continue to elect those who harm our community we need to change. Start with limitations on funding to these harmful activities. Repeat, Enforce the law. Elect people who work to benefit our community, not enable the drug trade.
Thank you for your expose on this awful situation we have in Clallam county. We really need fresh new leadership and some hard choices for drug addicts. They have been enabled long enough.
Increase suffering while profiting...thanks JKT...good revenge move on (mostly) 'whitey'...which is so ironic as Jeff pointed out...Ron 'Caliphate' Allen is 75% 'whitey' him/they/themselves!
These are just petty criminals masquerading as business people with the backing of NWO.
Obama did the same thing, he’s 1/2 white, raised white & if his DNA was public he may be more than 1/2 white…..but he did the same identical thing he chose to identify as BLACK…….and white be damned!
Both Dr. Berry and Jennifer Oppelt have "progressive" political views and, as such, believe that events and circumstances, not poor choices and slothfulness, are the root causes of a person's troubles. Thus, government must step in and bail them out -- which, of course, translates into oodles of taxpayer money and growing governmental organizations, and thus, their own job security -- even when they make the problem demonstrably worse, not better. I find it interesting here that, as Jake so sagely points out, the government is not addressing the environmental damage from HRHC programs, when so many millions of dollars have been completely wasted "for the salmon." Thank you, Jake, for exposing this problem as just one more of the dirty little secrets of HR programs.
I don’t understand which brilliant minds decided we must spend a zillion dollar to eliminate fish barriers, but the pollution issue in these streams and creeks isn’t even acknowledged. Thank you Jake Seegers. Those pictures spoke a thousand words.
I had no idea. If we continue to accept all this drug use, what do we think the outcome would be? A lazy justice system will destroy a livable area.
NOI, just be careful, I have had 2 friends do just that. They are financially and asset wise worse off than before. Research is everything! But, I do understand.
What a coincidence! Last week I got the idea to email the Clallam County Environmental Health Department about this same thing. Especially the Homeless using the creek as a potty and now that we're going to be paying for another administrator to do nothing! Water conservation expert! I'm getting replies, whether they actually do anything is a Whole-can-of worms thing. My new saying is "Only people who pay property taxes should vote on anything that raises property taxes!!"
Thanks, Pamela. Please send this article on to them(: Great point...new RV ordinances for law-abiding property owners while sewage on public land goes unregulated into local creeks.
I am a person in recovery and have personal experience with harm reduction. I understand the clean drug use equipment is to prevent disease transmission. However, not using drugs is an even better disease prevention strategy. Where is the recovery and assessment into treatment for these people receiving supplies? Example if they are making 900 visits per month then they are building relationships with those people and can work on recovery rather that drug use. Take the numbers and determine the people using the service most and start specific interventions with those people to help them get into recovery. I get it. Not everyone wants help but many do. I have had people tell me you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Maybe not but I think we can make them very thirsty at the water tank by holding them more accountable for the behavior. Here take more drug supplies with no consequences of the drug use. It requires more follow up by staff but with 320k in funding they could do it. Reduce the amount of available supplies being purchased to the very basics (That smorgasbord of supplies is outrageous.). You get 100 syringes you bring back 100 syringes; no excuses or BS or you don't get more. It is legal in Washington State to buy syringes over the counter from a pharmacy. You do not need a prescription. You want them go get them. A pharmacy can say no selling them but many don't. Drug users are manipulators and will take advantage when given the freedom to do so. Hold their hands to the fire and demand higher standards.
The cycle of addiction is a very difficult cycle to break. For myself I went cold turkey and spent the 3 most horrible weeks of my life detoxing, being sick and just horrible pain to get the drugs and alcohol from my system. That was a very difficult time in my life I never want to repeat. On occasions I have thoughts about getting high again and the remembrance of getting off drugs has helped prevent me from using them again. Consequences of my drug use motivated me to get off drugs and stay off drug. I had the help of medical doctors, therapists and other people in recovery help me and show me how to live without using drugs. I am forever grateful to the drug counselor that encouraged this high school dropout to get a GED and go to college. l feel like we are to easy on the using addicts and try to make their life to easy. Being responsible to deal with all the terrible damage I did in my life and having to go back and clean up that damage has been a huge part of the lesson in staying off drugs. Court dates, being incarcerated, fines, living on the street being abused in that lifestyle were great motivators to change my life. I can tell you I have not been arrested since getting off drugs.
Thank you for sharing your story, Citizen. I love this point that you made: "Not everyone wants help but many do. I have had people tell me you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Maybe not but I think we can make them very thirsty at the water tank by holding them more accountable for the behavior."
I think that it's wonderful that you took the time out of your day to share a story about reality. If it's possible at all please consider sending this to the BOCCC, or if you have time there's nothing more powerful than being able to speak to this for 3 minutes in front of them. We need more examples of those who achieved. God bless you.
Wow- very amazing. Had you reached rock bottom? If so what did the bottom look like? Think how far Harm Reduction money could go, used for Community College or Trade Schools. The $ the tribe collects off of repeat drug users is just one reason it perpetuates. Always about money over humans.
Yes, no supplies should be available. It makes me ill that tax dollars support the frigging drug using losers and the bleeding hearts that want to save them.
I would love to know how many change. Bet it isn’t 1 in a 100.
How about we only give Narcan at 50 percent the current amount used to “save” these repeat overdoses! Is that cruel? A bunch of brain dead, semi humans contributing nothing and we the citizens, paying their way, that is cruel.
Seeing all those pictures caused me to lose my last fiber of
human sympathy for the addicts. They are human swine turning OlyPen in to a sty.
Well said Jeff, Jake and commenters. I volunteer with 4PA and witness this hypocrisy regularly. I often marvel at the irony of the stacks of our own money being spent upstream in spots that fish will never see, while we clean the messes we’ve all paid for. Messes that are dumped and abandoned by addicts. Hauling out that soggy mess can only be done on foot, one bag at a time, by volunteers who love this town and county. While it may seem a Sisyphean task, I hate to imagine what it would look like if we didn’t do that work. Jake is the first candidate I’ve personally witnessed who comes and actually gets dirty and helps out in multiple ways. His descriptions are accurate, not embellished. I think no matter a persons politics or beliefs, anyone who worked a few weeks with us in Tumwater would agree - this is a viscous cycle that enables people to destroy themselves and the environment. If anyone is interested, you can sign up to volunteer here: https://www.4pa.org/volunteer and once you’ve done some mild work around town, if you are physically capable, we’ll invite you to go on one of these more strenuous clean ups.
Thanks for sharing this Bill. I appreciate all of your hard work and dedication with 4PA and your willingness to show me the ropes when we met during my first serious clean-up.
Likewise Jake. We need hard working people like you with common sense and the ability to articulate real solutions in positions of power. I’m stoked for you and hope to see you out in the mud and trash again soon. Let’s get Tozzer out here one of these days!
The fact is Jake is on the front lines of this epidemic. I can understand the impact it must have being so hands on.
Here is the kicker. They get those drugs from somewhere and its always curious how they seize millions from dealers and pad LEO and County coffers. Its been a nasty culture for over 20 years. They have just perfected it even more.
I have always detested "operation kingpin." They follow the user to the dealer and make a bust 5 years later after the community is ravaged. They cycle through Criminal informants and defense attorneys.. Karen Unger et al makes a fortune.
This is the reality of quasi legalization. Its still illegal so after they prop up the clientele, they follow them to Mr. Big who usually takes 4-5 years to prosecute.
Think about this. How much of that recent 1.5 million dollar Everett drug bust was money from our Peninsula...made right here in our community.
Think about the ravages of "operation kingpin." and the government prop up of it.
"Front lines" is right. I wonder how many county commissioners have walked Tumwater Creek? Jake is out there regularly talking to residents, picking up garbage, and learning about the cycles of addiction. All those pictures are his.
I see a trail of breadcrumbs for OPNET to follow and perch on Scarface, until the dope has been converted to cash..all the jurisdictions arrest Scarface and then get a hunk of the cash.
They played both ends at the detriment of this community.
OPNET is famous for developing a "user list" to follow to Scarface.
Jake is taking pictures of the "user list" OPNET most likely already has.
Its bad or worse.
Its a sloppy Barnes case with far more audacity and violates all public nuisance laws.. Why did Barnes even go to jail. He could have handed out Barnze kits.
Hey Barney guys we got Barnes in the blue pages and instead of at the Wreck Tavern and the Junction we got shacks on the hillside and junk in the creeks.
I’d like to answer your question….ZERO…..& I suspect after these pictures and article the powers of Clallam County, someone like Ozias or his support group will be quickly writing the sheriff to try and stop Jake from participating in the future…..
I imagine all the money that changes hands in the world of drugs….from dealers to addicts to rehab to all the support systems to judicial system….years ago it was alcohol but it didn’t hold a candle to destroying a country with drugs….…Can you imagine what it would be like if people like Jake didn’t clean up the mess? Our county is struggling as it is, raising taxes to support soil testing and poets when we’ve got far bigger problems, and they aren’t WANTS!
Its actionable public nuisance against the property owner. If the Prosecutor wont go after them, the neighbors can. Its the law. Problem is it appears to be an that following the law and getting gas at Safeway is hard to do these days... If I had a property and I tried to build a naked and afraid outdoor shelter, id have two county cars, one state car and city car, ready to throw the machine at me. If I was a property owner next to one of these camps I would be afraid to get gas at Safeway.
Why don't these Commissioners have an ounce of curiousity or initiative to see things as they are? They are simply spoon-fed information that may or may not be accurate or lopsided and their response is to hand out taxpayer money.
Rita, you and the rest of the CC Watchdog community, are popping their bubbles one after another. Clallam citizens can no longer be ignored. The RV/ADU ordinance turnout is a perfect example.
I'm not sure if the RV issue is a done deal yet. Didn't they just continue the item? If so, it's a time-tested strategy - keep continuing the item until no one shows up and vote in an empty hearing room.
Not yet, but concessions have already been gained by vocal citizens. Hopefully there will be more to come before the ordinances are revisited by the commissioners in January.
They wear us down if they can...I hope and pray that we become overwhelming and unstoppable...they are definitely stoppable...no one bothered to try because of what Rita said about their modus operandi.
My Dad used to say 'Dilution is the solution to pollution', which is flawed logic, of course, but that's what they do...dilute the outrage until it fades away...NO MORE!
We NEED Unity but right now, it's US vs Them...they have to GO...and be barred from ANY governmental influence except as individual 'voters'.
The VOTING system has to be overwhelmed like DJT showed (love him or hate him, the MASSES spoke!) and then reformed, so people feel and can see that their vote actually counts (and is counted).
There is no way (I hope) that the Majority is that stupid...they are just apathetic and disengaged from decades (centuries) of gaslighting and corruption.
Something to hope for and something to do...is the beginning of something worthwhile. God, I can't believe I wrote something that positive!😝
The juxtaposition of our elected leader's policies is wrong headed and unacceptable. They're choosing to surround themselves with the same voices, not a diverse set, and it shows in everything they're doing. There's too much comfort our Commissioners have with this one-sided mindset, an acquiescence of their own responsibility to self-inform. The thinking is also shallow in that it fails to take into consideration the effects of their decisions.
I'm appreciative that you are attempting to apply a holistic approach to this issue and share it with us for the betterment of our community.
In an interesting twist one of the Seattle City Council members, Sara Nelson, seems to be using her brain and has her own informed thoughts on this matter.
MK, I was surprised when I read about Sara Nelson and impressed that she is addressing harm reduction. I thought our leaders would take heed and start ending the "hand outs" under harm reduction. Apparently not:
Nov 26, 2025 “I myself am in recovery, and so therefore we have to focus on what is driving crime and chronic homelessness. It’s addiction,” Nelson explained
Sara got Seattle to move into the right direction. In her final budget on the city council, she redirected city resources away from enabling addiction and toward real recovery.
Seattle has long struggled to find balance between compassion and accountability. Too often, we’ve confused enabling with empathy. Sara had the courage to draw a moral line to say that distributing foil and glass pipes to consume fentanyl and methamphetamine is not harm reduction, it’s harm enablement.
Sara called it what it is, “cruel.”
On the dais, she said handing out drug paraphernalia is, “like handing a loaded gun to a person who is suicidal.” She is right — a painful truth many refuse to hear.
Sara’s leadership wasn’t theoretical. She governed with a lived truth. Her own sobriety, now more than four years strong, gave her the humility and clarity to see how addiction is not only a public health crisis — it is a moral and community crisis. It’s about the SAFETY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, the health of our economy and the dignity of every chronically addicted person to reclaim their own life.
Anyone I know who has recovered is besides themselves at the enabling culture of harm reduction.
I just realized that it's catchy phrases that insinuate those words are what's actually going on, but in reality it's not the case. Just more hucksters looking for the government teet.
Clallam County and the City of Port Angeles won’t address (let alone physically clean up) current or past homeless encampments because doing so would be an admission of the abject failure of their policies. It would put groups like TAFY out of business.
Meanwhile, Port Angeles needs more aggressive code enforcement. It’s anything but aggressive and the number of yards I pass every day when I walk my dog that look like homeless encampments and junk yards is growing. I don’t particularly care what happens in the yards in Beaver or Forks or Sequim for that matter. Want to know why doctors and other health providers don’t want to move here (besides our schools)? PA needs to crack down.
Our elected officials don't think much of themselves, why else would they want to see people doing worse than they are? It's a psychological leg-up to placate.
Well, we're getting a lot more 'reflections' here of 'like minds', although we don't always agree on everything...we mostly agree...time for big changes...bigger than the ones being shoved down our throats.😁
You can't see a problem when your 'largesse' depends on you not seeing the problem...or...the 'problem' is part of your solution for a bigger agenda...or both...or something even more diabolical than what my fruitful mind can conjure up!
Sequim Mayor Tom Farrell quit because it was 6 against 1 and he felt he was wasting his time. One out of three isn’t so bad because then the focus can be put on the next weaker one. Ozias is a loser, he will never care about the people, he only cares about what is important to him.
Drugs kill. Over 100,000 per year in the USA. People should be AFRAID of drugs. Harm reduction, Narcam, take the fear away. Taking fear away is not saving lives. Just an illusion and that is costing lives. You are literally killing people with your Narcan and accessories.
I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that this is an actual thing. I know they had this thing at the Health Dept here in Jeffco that you could come in and trade sharps, dirty for clean but that is way different from what they are doing now. I am a recovering addict, just had 5 years in July this year and I am immensely grateful they did not have this going when I was trying to clean up. How are they going to actively go out handing all of this paraphernalia when diabetics cannot even get free syringes!?!? It makes NO sense in my opinion.
And more sane voices rising up to counter the harm increasing policies. Thank you for sharing your story and the realities our elected officials aren't facing. Please write a letter to the BOCCC and speak in person if you could so that they start to hear the message that will actually reduce harm.
We need a new health director! Ever since taking over Clallam County we have sunk deeper and deeper into despair. The handling of Covid showed results of what we are now learning was mistake after mistake pushed by Director Berry. The Director supports giving up our medical rights to WHO to control our people in future medical crisis events. The drug community has increased substantially since her appointment and continues. We need a leader who can manage crisis not grow them. It’s time we take action and actively seek professionals with successful track records not masters who lead by failure, time & time again.
Thank you, Jake, for bringing this crisis into the light. It is hard to sit in the Board room every week and hear how wonderful these tax-payer funded programs are and how leaders in our community are so smart and forward thinking in their proposed agendas. Only we, the citizens, know what a waste of time, money, and lives their self-indulging bravado is costing. You very articulately focused on the contradiction of the dangerous pollution strewed throughout public and private property caused by homeless and drug addicts, all while the people in authority pretend it doesn't exist. These people know their failures; they lack the humility to admit they're wrong and need help correcting the ugly mess they so proudly caused.
Harm Reduction, a misnomer. Enabling drug usage benefits no one, except those who profit from the drug trade. We have the statistics. We know we are spreading more harm than good. Stop. Enforce laws that limit this scourge. If we voters continue to elect those who harm our community we need to change. Start with limitations on funding to these harmful activities. Repeat, Enforce the law. Elect people who work to benefit our community, not enable the drug trade.
Sheldon, thank you for this common sense comment.
Sheldon, we can start by voting in Jake Seegers. Contribute whatever we can by money or support to get him in.
I'll keep doing what I can to help make that a reality
Excellent Sheldon! Wakey, Wakey, those who slumber!😎
Thank you for your expose on this awful situation we have in Clallam county. We really need fresh new leadership and some hard choices for drug addicts. They have been enabled long enough.
Thank you, Liz. Good point: how long must officials cling to the same failed approaches?
They are all about processes, not results...out with the old, in with the sane!🤓
Too long! This needs to stop. Most of these people do not want help
Until they hit bottom and we just prolong that from happening
Increase suffering while profiting...thanks JKT...good revenge move on (mostly) 'whitey'...which is so ironic as Jeff pointed out...Ron 'Caliphate' Allen is 75% 'whitey' him/they/themselves!
These are just petty criminals masquerading as business people with the backing of NWO.
Bring them down.😎
Ron Allen is such a huge part of the problem...anything for a profit!!!! Snake!
Obama did the same thing, he’s 1/2 white, raised white & if his DNA was public he may be more than 1/2 white…..but he did the same identical thing he chose to identify as BLACK…….and white be damned!
Both Dr. Berry and Jennifer Oppelt have "progressive" political views and, as such, believe that events and circumstances, not poor choices and slothfulness, are the root causes of a person's troubles. Thus, government must step in and bail them out -- which, of course, translates into oodles of taxpayer money and growing governmental organizations, and thus, their own job security -- even when they make the problem demonstrably worse, not better. I find it interesting here that, as Jake so sagely points out, the government is not addressing the environmental damage from HRHC programs, when so many millions of dollars have been completely wasted "for the salmon." Thank you, Jake, for exposing this problem as just one more of the dirty little secrets of HR programs.
Thanks, Robert.
Scary Berry and NOzias are enemies of the people...dangerous criminals, not JUST misguided sycophants ...
sycophant /sĭk′ə-fənt, sī′kə-/
noun
A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.
An informer; a talebearer.
Similar: informertalebearer
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
Yes, we have servile parasites in positions of power...time for positive change!😎
I agree wholeheartedly...Ozias and Allen are in this together until the destruction is complete!!!!
Donate some of the "harm reduction" from the creeks and deposit it on their properties too.
Could be a new form
Of recycling
GREAT reframing!
; )
NOI, I still haven't found out who paid for the gas spill that shut down PA
water system. The truck was owned by JST. All I get is guesses, or "don't worry about it" WHO PAID FOR THE CLEANUP?
I don’t understand which brilliant minds decided we must spend a zillion dollar to eliminate fish barriers, but the pollution issue in these streams and creeks isn’t even acknowledged. Thank you Jake Seegers. Those pictures spoke a thousand words.
I had no idea. If we continue to accept all this drug use, what do we think the outcome would be? A lazy justice system will destroy a livable area.
Thank you, Susan. Great points.
Why we're moving! Can't take this BS much longer!
NOI, just be careful, I have had 2 friends do just that. They are financially and asset wise worse off than before. Research is everything! But, I do understand.
Thanks-- all has been evaluated and set in motion. It's not about money, it's about sanity.
What a coincidence! Last week I got the idea to email the Clallam County Environmental Health Department about this same thing. Especially the Homeless using the creek as a potty and now that we're going to be paying for another administrator to do nothing! Water conservation expert! I'm getting replies, whether they actually do anything is a Whole-can-of worms thing. My new saying is "Only people who pay property taxes should vote on anything that raises property taxes!!"
Thanks, Pamela. Please send this article on to them(: Great point...new RV ordinances for law-abiding property owners while sewage on public land goes unregulated into local creeks.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
If you don't let the disenfranchised vote, that's racist, or discrimination, or some other new ideo-illogical term or phrase.
Ideologies KILL society...they are fantasies, not realities...'Don't build your houses on sand'.
There are 'entities' influencing from 'on high' and 'outside of'...this is psycho-spiritual, not just physical.
It ALL starts with 'MIND'!🥸
I am a person in recovery and have personal experience with harm reduction. I understand the clean drug use equipment is to prevent disease transmission. However, not using drugs is an even better disease prevention strategy. Where is the recovery and assessment into treatment for these people receiving supplies? Example if they are making 900 visits per month then they are building relationships with those people and can work on recovery rather that drug use. Take the numbers and determine the people using the service most and start specific interventions with those people to help them get into recovery. I get it. Not everyone wants help but many do. I have had people tell me you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Maybe not but I think we can make them very thirsty at the water tank by holding them more accountable for the behavior. Here take more drug supplies with no consequences of the drug use. It requires more follow up by staff but with 320k in funding they could do it. Reduce the amount of available supplies being purchased to the very basics (That smorgasbord of supplies is outrageous.). You get 100 syringes you bring back 100 syringes; no excuses or BS or you don't get more. It is legal in Washington State to buy syringes over the counter from a pharmacy. You do not need a prescription. You want them go get them. A pharmacy can say no selling them but many don't. Drug users are manipulators and will take advantage when given the freedom to do so. Hold their hands to the fire and demand higher standards.
The cycle of addiction is a very difficult cycle to break. For myself I went cold turkey and spent the 3 most horrible weeks of my life detoxing, being sick and just horrible pain to get the drugs and alcohol from my system. That was a very difficult time in my life I never want to repeat. On occasions I have thoughts about getting high again and the remembrance of getting off drugs has helped prevent me from using them again. Consequences of my drug use motivated me to get off drugs and stay off drug. I had the help of medical doctors, therapists and other people in recovery help me and show me how to live without using drugs. I am forever grateful to the drug counselor that encouraged this high school dropout to get a GED and go to college. l feel like we are to easy on the using addicts and try to make their life to easy. Being responsible to deal with all the terrible damage I did in my life and having to go back and clean up that damage has been a huge part of the lesson in staying off drugs. Court dates, being incarcerated, fines, living on the street being abused in that lifestyle were great motivators to change my life. I can tell you I have not been arrested since getting off drugs.
Thank you for sharing your story, Citizen. I love this point that you made: "Not everyone wants help but many do. I have had people tell me you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Maybe not but I think we can make them very thirsty at the water tank by holding them more accountable for the behavior."
I think that it's wonderful that you took the time out of your day to share a story about reality. If it's possible at all please consider sending this to the BOCCC, or if you have time there's nothing more powerful than being able to speak to this for 3 minutes in front of them. We need more examples of those who achieved. God bless you.
Kudos to you for kicking it and staying clean.
🤓
Wow- very amazing. Had you reached rock bottom? If so what did the bottom look like? Think how far Harm Reduction money could go, used for Community College or Trade Schools. The $ the tribe collects off of repeat drug users is just one reason it perpetuates. Always about money over humans.
Yes, no supplies should be available. It makes me ill that tax dollars support the frigging drug using losers and the bleeding hearts that want to save them.
I would love to know how many change. Bet it isn’t 1 in a 100.
How about we only give Narcan at 50 percent the current amount used to “save” these repeat overdoses! Is that cruel? A bunch of brain dead, semi humans contributing nothing and we the citizens, paying their way, that is cruel.
Seeing all those pictures caused me to lose my last fiber of
human sympathy for the addicts. They are human swine turning OlyPen in to a sty.
Thank you just a tax payer! You are reality!
Well said Jeff, Jake and commenters. I volunteer with 4PA and witness this hypocrisy regularly. I often marvel at the irony of the stacks of our own money being spent upstream in spots that fish will never see, while we clean the messes we’ve all paid for. Messes that are dumped and abandoned by addicts. Hauling out that soggy mess can only be done on foot, one bag at a time, by volunteers who love this town and county. While it may seem a Sisyphean task, I hate to imagine what it would look like if we didn’t do that work. Jake is the first candidate I’ve personally witnessed who comes and actually gets dirty and helps out in multiple ways. His descriptions are accurate, not embellished. I think no matter a persons politics or beliefs, anyone who worked a few weeks with us in Tumwater would agree - this is a viscous cycle that enables people to destroy themselves and the environment. If anyone is interested, you can sign up to volunteer here: https://www.4pa.org/volunteer and once you’ve done some mild work around town, if you are physically capable, we’ll invite you to go on one of these more strenuous clean ups.
Thanks for sharing this Bill. I appreciate all of your hard work and dedication with 4PA and your willingness to show me the ropes when we met during my first serious clean-up.
Likewise Jake. We need hard working people like you with common sense and the ability to articulate real solutions in positions of power. I’m stoked for you and hope to see you out in the mud and trash again soon. Let’s get Tozzer out here one of these days!
Thank you for volunteering, Bill, and telling us what you see and experience.
This comment needs to be pinned to the top.
Your perspective is a reality that those with clean hands can't appreciate.
When I was growing up alcohol was an issue. We did not give alcoholics a free
beer mug or tonic or Bloody Mary mix. They got better or paid the price. No free
homes or money just Tough Love. Wow what an idea!
Simple truth!☺️
jedjennings50 thank you for common sense!
The fact is Jake is on the front lines of this epidemic. I can understand the impact it must have being so hands on.
Here is the kicker. They get those drugs from somewhere and its always curious how they seize millions from dealers and pad LEO and County coffers. Its been a nasty culture for over 20 years. They have just perfected it even more.
I have always detested "operation kingpin." They follow the user to the dealer and make a bust 5 years later after the community is ravaged. They cycle through Criminal informants and defense attorneys.. Karen Unger et al makes a fortune.
This is the reality of quasi legalization. Its still illegal so after they prop up the clientele, they follow them to Mr. Big who usually takes 4-5 years to prosecute.
Think about this. How much of that recent 1.5 million dollar Everett drug bust was money from our Peninsula...made right here in our community.
Think about the ravages of "operation kingpin." and the government prop up of it.
"Front lines" is right. I wonder how many county commissioners have walked Tumwater Creek? Jake is out there regularly talking to residents, picking up garbage, and learning about the cycles of addiction. All those pictures are his.
I see a trail of breadcrumbs for OPNET to follow and perch on Scarface, until the dope has been converted to cash..all the jurisdictions arrest Scarface and then get a hunk of the cash.
They played both ends at the detriment of this community.
Cash is a symbol of 'power'...always follow the $$!
'The LOVE of money is the root of all evil'.😈
OPNET is famous for developing a "user list" to follow to Scarface.
Jake is taking pictures of the "user list" OPNET most likely already has.
Its bad or worse.
Its a sloppy Barnes case with far more audacity and violates all public nuisance laws.. Why did Barnes even go to jail. He could have handed out Barnze kits.
Hey Barney guys we got Barnes in the blue pages and instead of at the Wreck Tavern and the Junction we got shacks on the hillside and junk in the creeks.
I’d like to answer your question….ZERO…..& I suspect after these pictures and article the powers of Clallam County, someone like Ozias or his support group will be quickly writing the sheriff to try and stop Jake from participating in the future…..
They banned background screens they might just ban Jakeground screens.
OPNET does not condone drug use. They just wait until the one County hand feeds the other County hand.
They do the same with pot. They sell marijuana and eradicate marijuana.
In the same way they condone hard drug use and eradicate hard drug use.
We are marks,...lab rats...shocked monkeys..social guinea pigs...all in the same government services section (blue pages.)
'It's a BIG CLUB, and we ain't in it!' (Carlin)🤪
I imagine all the money that changes hands in the world of drugs….from dealers to addicts to rehab to all the support systems to judicial system….years ago it was alcohol but it didn’t hold a candle to destroying a country with drugs….…Can you imagine what it would be like if people like Jake didn’t clean up the mess? Our county is struggling as it is, raising taxes to support soil testing and poets when we’ve got far bigger problems, and they aren’t WANTS!
Its actionable public nuisance against the property owner. If the Prosecutor wont go after them, the neighbors can. Its the law. Problem is it appears to be an that following the law and getting gas at Safeway is hard to do these days... If I had a property and I tried to build a naked and afraid outdoor shelter, id have two county cars, one state car and city car, ready to throw the machine at me. If I was a property owner next to one of these camps I would be afraid to get gas at Safeway.
Why don't these Commissioners have an ounce of curiousity or initiative to see things as they are? They are simply spoon-fed information that may or may not be accurate or lopsided and their response is to hand out taxpayer money.
Their bubble must be popped.
Rita, you and the rest of the CC Watchdog community, are popping their bubbles one after another. Clallam citizens can no longer be ignored. The RV/ADU ordinance turnout is a perfect example.
I'm not sure if the RV issue is a done deal yet. Didn't they just continue the item? If so, it's a time-tested strategy - keep continuing the item until no one shows up and vote in an empty hearing room.
Not yet, but concessions have already been gained by vocal citizens. Hopefully there will be more to come before the ordinances are revisited by the commissioners in January.
Jake this is like waiting for the thief to return to the scene of the crime. Thieves wait until the coast is clear & then they act & steal you blind.
They wear us down if they can...I hope and pray that we become overwhelming and unstoppable...they are definitely stoppable...no one bothered to try because of what Rita said about their modus operandi.
My Dad used to say 'Dilution is the solution to pollution', which is flawed logic, of course, but that's what they do...dilute the outrage until it fades away...NO MORE!
We NEED Unity but right now, it's US vs Them...they have to GO...and be barred from ANY governmental influence except as individual 'voters'.
The VOTING system has to be overwhelmed like DJT showed (love him or hate him, the MASSES spoke!) and then reformed, so people feel and can see that their vote actually counts (and is counted).
There is no way (I hope) that the Majority is that stupid...they are just apathetic and disengaged from decades (centuries) of gaslighting and corruption.
Something to hope for and something to do...is the beginning of something worthwhile. God, I can't believe I wrote something that positive!😝
POP-THE-BUBBLES of complacency and ignorance, greed and sloth, corruption and grift/graft!
Momentum is building...a small phalanx of awakened ones is capable of penetrating and displacing large evils.
Only about 13% of colonists fought the Revolutionary War.
Yes, COLONISTS...the COLON-ists...The ones who deal with all the shit!💩
Thanks Jake for assembling a troubling situation.
The juxtaposition of our elected leader's policies is wrong headed and unacceptable. They're choosing to surround themselves with the same voices, not a diverse set, and it shows in everything they're doing. There's too much comfort our Commissioners have with this one-sided mindset, an acquiescence of their own responsibility to self-inform. The thinking is also shallow in that it fails to take into consideration the effects of their decisions.
I'm appreciative that you are attempting to apply a holistic approach to this issue and share it with us for the betterment of our community.
Thank you, MK.
In an interesting twist one of the Seattle City Council members, Sara Nelson, seems to be using her brain and has her own informed thoughts on this matter.
https://youtube.com/shorts/D3RU6XfYThM?si=qCp00z8p86Q8bDJC
Thanks for sharing this, MK.
MK, I was surprised when I read about Sara Nelson and impressed that she is addressing harm reduction. I thought our leaders would take heed and start ending the "hand outs" under harm reduction. Apparently not:
https://cascadeparty.org/summit/2025/10/ed48.html
Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson:
Nov 26, 2025 “I myself am in recovery, and so therefore we have to focus on what is driving crime and chronic homelessness. It’s addiction,” Nelson explained
Sara got Seattle to move into the right direction. In her final budget on the city council, she redirected city resources away from enabling addiction and toward real recovery.
Seattle has long struggled to find balance between compassion and accountability. Too often, we’ve confused enabling with empathy. Sara had the courage to draw a moral line to say that distributing foil and glass pipes to consume fentanyl and methamphetamine is not harm reduction, it’s harm enablement.
Sara called it what it is, “cruel.”
On the dais, she said handing out drug paraphernalia is, “like handing a loaded gun to a person who is suicidal.” She is right — a painful truth many refuse to hear.
Sara’s leadership wasn’t theoretical. She governed with a lived truth. Her own sobriety, now more than four years strong, gave her the humility and clarity to see how addiction is not only a public health crisis — it is a moral and community crisis. It’s about the SAFETY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, the health of our economy and the dignity of every chronically addicted person to reclaim their own life.
"Cruel" sums it up.
Anyone I know who has recovered is besides themselves at the enabling culture of harm reduction.
I just realized that it's catchy phrases that insinuate those words are what's actually going on, but in reality it's not the case. Just more hucksters looking for the government teet.
All while destroying a society for 'build back better'!🤪
Bravo!🤩
Clallam County and the City of Port Angeles won’t address (let alone physically clean up) current or past homeless encampments because doing so would be an admission of the abject failure of their policies. It would put groups like TAFY out of business.
Meanwhile, Port Angeles needs more aggressive code enforcement. It’s anything but aggressive and the number of yards I pass every day when I walk my dog that look like homeless encampments and junk yards is growing. I don’t particularly care what happens in the yards in Beaver or Forks or Sequim for that matter. Want to know why doctors and other health providers don’t want to move here (besides our schools)? PA needs to crack down.
Our elected officials don't think much of themselves, why else would they want to see people doing worse than they are? It's a psychological leg-up to placate.
They do what they do to spread money around to their supporters and get SJWs employed.
When life seems hopeless, give people the tools to kill themselves. That's harm reduction?
Good point, Brian. We can all see it...why can't our leaders?
It's one of the echo chamber 'thinks'. "It must be right, we all agree."
Well, we're getting a lot more 'reflections' here of 'like minds', although we don't always agree on everything...we mostly agree...time for big changes...bigger than the ones being shoved down our throats.😁
You can't see a problem when your 'largesse' depends on you not seeing the problem...or...the 'problem' is part of your solution for a bigger agenda...or both...or something even more diabolical than what my fruitful mind can conjure up!
Any which way, they GOTTA GO!🤨
It'll be tough being the only sane voice out of 3.
Sequim Mayor Tom Farrell quit because it was 6 against 1 and he felt he was wasting his time. One out of three isn’t so bad because then the focus can be put on the next weaker one. Ozias is a loser, he will never care about the people, he only cares about what is important to him.
Drugs kill. Over 100,000 per year in the USA. People should be AFRAID of drugs. Harm reduction, Narcam, take the fear away. Taking fear away is not saving lives. Just an illusion and that is costing lives. You are literally killing people with your Narcan and accessories.
Truth is so simple!😎
Well, if you want to torture and then kill, while moving a lot of money around amongst your buddies...it's a pretty good strategy!
Bring Them Down!🤓
I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that this is an actual thing. I know they had this thing at the Health Dept here in Jeffco that you could come in and trade sharps, dirty for clean but that is way different from what they are doing now. I am a recovering addict, just had 5 years in July this year and I am immensely grateful they did not have this going when I was trying to clean up. How are they going to actively go out handing all of this paraphernalia when diabetics cannot even get free syringes!?!? It makes NO sense in my opinion.
And more sane voices rising up to counter the harm increasing policies. Thank you for sharing your story and the realities our elected officials aren't facing. Please write a letter to the BOCCC and speak in person if you could so that they start to hear the message that will actually reduce harm.
Congratulations on living life in the sober lane. Welcome back.
Your words say what many have told us, harm reduction creates more drug use. It’s a pathetic attempt to bring drugs under control!
Nonsense it is, Michelle. Thanks for sharing.☺️
We need a new health director! Ever since taking over Clallam County we have sunk deeper and deeper into despair. The handling of Covid showed results of what we are now learning was mistake after mistake pushed by Director Berry. The Director supports giving up our medical rights to WHO to control our people in future medical crisis events. The drug community has increased substantially since her appointment and continues. We need a leader who can manage crisis not grow them. It’s time we take action and actively seek professionals with successful track records not masters who lead by failure, time & time again.
Bravo! And Amen!🙏🏼😎
Thank you, Jake, for bringing this crisis into the light. It is hard to sit in the Board room every week and hear how wonderful these tax-payer funded programs are and how leaders in our community are so smart and forward thinking in their proposed agendas. Only we, the citizens, know what a waste of time, money, and lives their self-indulging bravado is costing. You very articulately focused on the contradiction of the dangerous pollution strewed throughout public and private property caused by homeless and drug addicts, all while the people in authority pretend it doesn't exist. These people know their failures; they lack the humility to admit they're wrong and need help correcting the ugly mess they so proudly caused.
Thanks, Denise. You found the key to real solutions: humility.
Everyone will be humbled at some point in their journey...or shortly thereafter!
Faith is intangible but still real.🤓