莱德一些难以追踪的资金已用于恢复计划，但大部分资金已用于执法部门--用于警车、监狱费用、无人机等。
The Lede Some of the money, which is difficult to track, has gone to recovery programs, but much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more.
沃尔特·斯米特尔三世区域响应者培训中心位于杰克逊县西弗吉尼亚州里普利以南山脊上的砾石路尽头。今年八月一个闷热的早晨，我和县治安官罗斯·梅林格（Ross Mellinger）一起参观了这座大楼，他是一个身材高大、留着胡须的男子，右前臂上有一头麋鹿的纹身。他带我进去，那里有一个健身房、一间办公室和两个大教室，里面为警察和急救人员举办研讨会。
The Walter Smittle III Regional Responder Training Center sits at the end of a gravel road on a ridge just south of Ripley, West Virginia, in Jackson County. On a muggy morning this past August, I toured the building with Ross Mellinger, the county sheriff, a tall, bearded man with a tattoo of an elk on his right forearm. He showed me inside, where there’s a gym, an office, and two large classrooms, which host seminars for police officers and E.M.T.s.
教室墙壁上挂着逮捕和缉毒照片，还有嫌疑人照片和急救人员在坠机现场的照片。“我们的装饰，”梅林格称之为。一张照片显示警员们在一堆没收的现金前摆姿势。一间教室外有一张西弗吉尼亚州最后一次公开绞刑的照片，那是1897年在里普利举行的。梅林格说，被绞死的人约翰·摩根被判入狱、因谋杀罪受审并被定罪，然后越狱、被捕并被处决--这一切都在十天内完成。
Lining the classroom walls are framed photos of arrests and drug busts, alongside mug shots and pictures of E.M.T.s at crash sites. “Our décor,” Mellinger called it. One photo showed deputies posing in front of stacks of confiscated cash. Outside one classroom was a photo of the last public hanging in West Virginia, which took place in Ripley, in 1897. The hanged man, John Morgan, had been jailed, tried for murder, and convicted, before escaping jail, getting apprehended, and being executed—all in ten days, Mellinger said. (It was closer to a month.)
(It近一个月）。“谈论有效的司法，”Mellinger补充说。“现在你十天内拿不到搜查令。”人们经常把阿片类药物和解的钱称为“血钱”，你可能会认为它主要会流向死于过量用药的人的家庭。但这些支出的结构是将各州和社区视为受害方，认为阿片类药物流行病是一场公共卫生危机，而不是个人悲剧的集合。
“Talk about efficient justice,” Mellinger added. “Now you can’t get a warrant in ten days.”People often call money from the opioid settlement “blood money,” and you might expect that it would go mostly to the families of people who died of overdoses. But the payouts have been structured to treat states and communities as the harmed parties, with the idea that the opioid epidemic is a public-health crisis more than it is a collection of individual tragedies.
在我参观里普利新培训中心的那天，我还参加了在特蕾莎·埃文斯和凯利·杜威教堂举行的会议。当我到达时，有几个孩子在外面跑来跑去;他们把我带到教堂地下室，DeWees在那里煮了一大盘饭--炸鸡、土豆泥、玉米砂锅、青豆--足够养活三打人。孩子们又出去玩了，被教区居民称为凯利妈妈的杜威靠在我身边。“那些都是幸存者，”她低声说。
On the day that I toured the new training center in Ripley, I also attended a meeting at Teresa Evans and Kelly DeWees’s church. When I arrived, there were a handful of children running around outside; they brought me to the church basement, where DeWees had cooked a large meal—fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn casserole, green beans—enough to feed three dozen people. The kids went back out to play, and DeWees, who’s referred to as Mama Kelly by the parishioners, leaned close to me. “Those are all survivors,” she whispered.