bunny was right about hamsterdam. was it perfect? of course not it’s america. but it was harm reduction. they were able to go weeks in hamsterdam without any violence or killing. bunny knew he was never going to be able to stop the drug trade, but he knew he could make a difference in the community. or he could at least try. of course, the biggest downside to legalizing drugs in the free zone is overdoses and easier access to drugs. and in response to that they were feeding people, they had a clean needle program, and outreach for those who wanted to get clean.
the community was writing letters about how this was bettering the streets of west baltimore. once the bosses found out about what bunny was doing, after their initial fury, they literally considered keeping it going until their hand was forced bc they saw the merit in what bunny was doing. at best what he did was making a positive impact, and i think he was. but at very least he wasn’t making things any worse than they already were. i do see it as a net positive though.
and the thing is he never claimed what he was doing was the right answer or even that it was “good”, but he had to try something bc the same old shit that they’d been doing wasn’t working. and i believe him when he said he wasn’t doing it for the glory. he knew that the bosses would be furious, i mean he ended up being disgraced and fired due to his experiment which i’m sure he expected bc to him this was his last hail mary. he also seemed to geniunely care about the community and the people in it and i don’t think he ever had the intention of actually breaking up hamsterdam, he just needed to be able to justify it to the others somehow. you could tell how much hamsterdam meant to him.
