Posted on 06/16/2023 4:44:29 AM PDT by Libloather
San Francisco Mayor London Breed's verbal sparring match with a city official over the role of police in fighting the drug crisis could signal a tone shift, according to one cautiously-optimistic activist.
"It sent a message, I think, to San Franciscans that the age of this kind of Democratic Socialist, radical politicking in San Francisco is coming to an end," recovering addict-turned-activist Tom Wolf told Fox News.
Breed recently committed to cracking down on open-air drug markets in San Francisco, and announced during a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday that police made 38 arrests in about one week. During a question and answer period, Supervisor Dean Preston criticized Breed's approach as contradicting the city's 2022 overdose prevention plan stating that "Black, Brown and indigenous communities nationwide" have been disproportionately impacted by racist drug policies.
The self-described Democratic Socialist also suggested "punitive policies" would lead to more overdose deaths.
"Here we go. Another White man who's talking about Black and Brown people as if you're the savior of those people and you speak for them," Breed responded. She then defended law enforcement as a necessary component of fixing the city's drug crisis.
"At the end of the day, when we need to make arrests because someone's breaking the law and needs to be held accountable and can potentially be forced into treatment services, I'm going to do so," she said.
Wolf was addicted to heroin and homeless in San Francisco's Tenderloin district in 2018. He said his sixth arrest landed him in county jail long enough to get clean and reevaluate his life. Now he is a recovery advocate and has often criticized Breed and other government officials.
"Even though she was right [on Tuesday], a lot of what we see that's happened in San Francisco happened on her watch..."
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Talk is cheap.
I’ll wait to see if there’s any action.
Nothing is going to change.
“Democratic Socialist, radical politicking in San Francisco is coming to an end,”
MI Gov. Whitmer didn’t get the memo. She’s advancing the agendas of black supremacists every day.
I read that San Francisco is set up so that committees run everything and the mayor can’t change much even if she wants to.
The reason California is in such bad shape is because the government created non-governmental organizations, committees and regulatory bodies and gave them governmental powers. You don’t get to elect members of those organizations. They aren’t responsible to anyone. There you have it. Power and authority with no accountability or consequences. You can change the government all you want and nothing in California will change. Chicago did something similar with dozens of mini governments that have taxing authority.
Not just Commiefornia...the Federal government has done the exact same things!
The EPA wrote NEW REGULATIONS (i.e., LAWS - yes these are laws with which you can be charged, fined, and even jailed). Congress passed a law to stop the EPA from writing these new LAWS, and Biden vetoed the Congressional oversight-based law, so the EPA (formed by the Feds and paid for by Feds) is able to write new LAWS that the Federal oversight agency cannot OVERSEE without permission from the President.
What is WRONG with that picture?!?
Thank you for the information.
So I guess it’s “mob rules” by committee in San Francisco.
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