access to drugs, an unskilled manual labor job payed with state wages which could be listed on a resume and used to pay the fines they had previously incurred, and make them clean up the city and surrounding areas that they're currently messing up while they were in the program. Bolster that with mandatory rehabilitation therapy, and drug screenings for those put into the program with drug problems and I believe you'd see a big difference. Giving them fines they aren't going to pay, locking them up, and increasing a police presence again when it hasn't fixed anything anyway is just going to waste tax dollars. Hands down I would rather my dollar go to pay some vagrant to weed a state park flower bed than to put him in a holding cell over night, and I know a lot of people agree with me. Not to mention that mandatory community service might do a wealth of good at reminding these people that they are indeed in a community.