Shelter Wants Authority Over Medications, But Not The Responsibility

I will try to keep it short. How about a Haiku version?

Shelter locks your drugs,
Then your drugs turn up stolen,
Irresponsible.

Shelter residents who have “controlled” medications with them (mostly prescription pain killers) must turn in these and all other drugs to the shelter for supposed safekeeping.
“Controlled” medications are placed in a small lock box with the resident’s name taped onto it. The two keys to this box go to the shelter director and the resident. The lock box is then placed in a filing cabinet drawer that only shelter staff have access to by key.
The filing cabinet is kept in a locked room. Note, the locked room has only a half-wall. The wall separating the room from the outer office area does not go all the way to the ceiling.
Once the resident turns over these medications, does it not make sense to you that the shelter becomes responsible for the security of these drugs?
A resident called me some days ago and said his lock box had been broken into, and his painkillers stolen. He suspected one of the staff, and let this be known. Of course, from that point on he wasn’t exactly the Man of the Hour as far as the shelter was concerned. He was even grilled by the shelter director as to whether he had been talking to me about this. Apparently I am the least likely to ever be Man of the Hour at the shelter. Maybe they will name a men’sroom stall after me someday.
So, the room was supposedly locked, with staff having the key. The cabinet in the room was supposedly locked, with staff having a key. And, the lock box in the cabinet was broken into, as staff did not have access to a key. This mystery certainly walks and quacks like a duck.
Anyway, the resident was advised by the director to stay “hush-hush” about this. He told me he was led to believe that if he notified the police that a felony had occurred at the shelter, his time there would be significantly and immediately foreshortened.
I advised the shelter director’s boss about this, as the director has a history of telling her supervisor only what she wants them to know. It turns out, she had told Pam about this, which is a step in the right direction. Pam is not a supervisor one can easily sidestep.
Pam wrote me an email and said I only had half the story.
I am sure I missed the usual deception, denial and manipulation of facts.
I asked Pam if all future felonies that occur at the shelter are going to be investigated by the shelter director, maybe with a funny hat, big spy glass and a false mustache as well.
Might as well. The place is a mockery of responsibility and respect for people in need.

PS: The resident, who went without pain pills for days, left the shelter the day after he called me. Apparently, a staff member was “out to get him thrown out,” so he left without that additional affront.