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Solving this is complex, but the problem is straight forward:
There are able-bodied men peddling highly addictive, deadly poison on the streets of San Francisco for $5 a hit and they face little consequences.
How do we shut down SF's drug market? Start with the data.
Five years ago, drug-dealing arrests hit a low: 1,780 a year.
Three years ago, the city launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, uniting public health and public safety for the first time. Arrests spiked to 3,223 under then-Commander, now Chief, Lew. Convictions tripled from 16% to 46% under DA Jenkins.
It worked. The market shrank. Daytime dealing is gone.
So what's stopping us from finishing the job? Adaptation.
First, fewer dealers are left (good news!), with 1,948 arrested last year. But the ones who remain are harder to catch. They've switched from open dealing to drops and moved to nighttime, when police are stretched thin.
Second, judges keep letting them go. Of 1,172 pending dealing cases last year, only 10% were held pre-trial. Over 1,000 dealers went right back to the street.
To shut it down for good, we need to:
1. Put more police on the street at night
2. Launch a drug market intervention strategy that pairs prevention with enforcement
3. Hold judges accountable for releasing fentanyl dealers pre-trial
4. Change state law to treat fentanyl dealing as the deadly crime it is
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These people weren’t even looking to smoke fentanyl, but they admit that it is probably laced in.
Dealers are adding fentanyl, the deadliest drug created by man, to everything they sell.
This is the mindset of many people on the streets. They believe they have no other choice but to use some people believe they don’t know how to survive without drug you.
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You can't do drugs at restaurant dining tables. Period.
"illegal drug use seen"
Reported at Flying Figs Wine Bar in Japantown today.
You can't do drugs next to schools. Period.
"Homeless starting to block sidewalk with encampment. Openly using drugs."
Reported this morning next to Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 school in the Mission.
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Here is the report solvesf.com/report/202000133…
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If you call 911 about drug dealers it is a priority B or C call.
The number 2 leading cause of death among SF residents (2019-2021) was drug use disorders.
Number 1 was heart disease.
Drug dealers are killing more people than stabbings and shootings, but they are not treated that way.
How do we shut down SF's drug market? Start with the data.
Five years ago, drug-dealing arrests hit a low: 1,780 a year.
Three years ago, the city launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, uniting public health and public safety for the first time. Arrests spiked to 3,223 under then-Commander, now Chief, Lew. Convictions tripled from 16% to 46% under DA Jenkins.
It worked. The market shrank. Daytime dealing is gone.
So what's stopping us from finishing the job? Adaptation.
First, fewer dealers are left (good news!), with 1,948 arrested last year. But the ones who remain are harder to catch. They've switched from open dealing to drops and moved to nighttime, when police are stretched thin.
Second, judges keep letting them go. Of 1,172 pending dealing cases last year, only 10% were held pre-trial. Over 1,000 dealers went right back to the street.
To shut it down for good, we need to:
1. Put more police on the street at night
2. Launch a drug market intervention strategy that pairs prevention with enforcement
3. Hold judges accountable for releasing fentanyl dealers pre-trial
4. Change state law to treat fentanyl dealing as the deadly crime it is
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Why are we leaving people to die on the streets in California in the name of civil liberty? Would you accept this for your mom, dad, brother, sister? So why do we accept this moral failure for someone who doesn’t have the same support system?
For years, advocates and higher levels of government told us to invest in call diversion. Last year, we increase 911 call transfers to 988 by 10x to try to connect people with a more appropriate response team. But when Japantown residents called 988 last week to help this poor woman laying in her own excrement in front of a small business, they were told she couldn’t be helped.
So we went back to @SanJosePD to secure yet another 5150 hold. This means she was held involuntarily in our County hospital for no more than 72 hours and is now, as with the many times prior, right back on the streets of Japantown, suffering in public, impacting residents and small businesses, and not getting the life-saving intervention she needs and the wider community deserves.
Our next Governor must do two things to end this humanitarian crisis: fund in-patient treatment facilities and allow CARE Court to mandate involuntary treatment for longer than a brief visit to the county hospital. The compassion answer is to intervene and require people come indoors. Enough excuses.
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