Shoot up on city streets? Go to jail!
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On the front page of the hard copy of SF Chronicle this morning: Breed targets 'reign of criminals.'
The Chronicle pulls the punch with a lame, verbose, and less accurate version of the hed of the online version of the same story: "Mayor Breed wants to flood Tenderloin with police to confront drug dealers — and those using drugs."
What Mayor Breed is talking about---along with drug dealing---is people shooting up on the streets of the Tenderloin, a common sight on other streets South of Market.
I was London Breed's harshest critic before she was elected mayor, but I agree with her stated Tenderloin initiative.
But we'll have to see how much follow-through there is to her initiative.
See also Put San Francisco values on the ballot, Arrest anyone who shoots up on city streets, and Heather Knight's perp walk.
Labels: Drugs, London Breed, Neighborhoods, SF Chronicle
posted by Rob Anderson @ 4:05 PM
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I just moved out of West SOMA and out of the State...I am the last of my family (4th generation San Franciscan going back to the 1850's) to leave the city. I was willing to suspend my believe over the last 30 plus years that things would never get worse each year, and if they did then voters would "rise up" and vote in thinking moderates (NOT conservatives mind you...moderates), however that never happened, nor do I believe it will. If the DA is recalled, as well as the dummies on the School Board, and the brain trust running SFMTA then perhaps, just perhaps, it will send a message to other elected officials and those that are thinking of elected office that they need to really draw the line when it comes to enabling people to break the law as it impacts other residents. RIP SF...it was a sweet time in my love affair with you.
Okay, but it's not like anyone---or any politial tendency---has a solution for homelessness in San Francisco. My first post on this blog on the issue was way back in 2006, and I've posted about the issue many times since then.
Nor do I see Boudin as an opponent to dealing with the issue. Homelessness itself of course is not illegal, but surely the city shouldn't tolerate open dealing and shooting up in public.
And come off it. This is not about you and your unrequited love for San Francisco.
Make that 2004, not 2006.
Although shooting up and homeless in the streets has left needles and our streets shit her plans do nothing. The city should have left needle exchange in place. Instead shit them down and signed those locations off as city land surplus to sell off to developers. Arresting a heroin addict which I’m for a heroin addict that’s half sleep walking after shooting up is not responsible for smash and grabs, burglaries, robberies, car break ins, violent crimes and shootings. I’d like to see a heroin addict steal a pair of shoes from Macy’s. Gets fall asleep in the middle of reaching for them just standing there like a telephone pole. I call bullshit on her bullshit
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