No solution to needles tossed about city

Only fix, so far, is having
fire dept. do clean up

About 20 needles a month – that’s about how many La Crosse Fire Dept. teams are picking up in the area.

They’re needles used, presumably, for illicit drugs, tossed aside by users and put within reach of children, pets and anybody else walking around in the city’s parks, playgrounds or parking ramps.

“With, obviously, the explosion of the intravenous drug use, this is an issue that we have to face,” La Crosse police captain Jason Melby said.

Currently, Melby said, there is no procedure to determine who has tossed aside the potentially dangerous needles.

And, the only real response the city has, is for the fire dept. to continue picking them up.