Posted on 12/24/2021 5:06:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
San Francisco leaders on Friday approved an emergency plan to combat drug use in the city's much-troubled Tenderloin neighborhood after Mayor London Breed made a proposal earlier this month that some fear will criminalize addicts and the homeless.
The 8-2 vote by the Board of Supervisors came after a lengthy meeting that ended just after midnight Friday. Board President Shamann Walton and Supervisor Dean Preston dissented, arguing that potential over-policing could impact African Americans, among other issues.
"I know that this is an incredibly painful, traumatic and emotional conversation," said Matt Haney, the supervisor who represents the neighborhood, before the vote.
The declaration authorizes the city's Department of Emergency Management to bypass certain red tape in an effort to set up a temporary center where people can access drug treatment and counseling.
Tenderloin includes City Hall but has been plagued with crime and open-air drug dealing and use and homelessness. The order does not call for an increased police presence, but Chief Bill Scott said officers just can't ignore what's happening in the neighborhood, where parents have said their children can't go outside and addicts inject themselves with drugs out in the open.
"We’re out there to help," Scott said. "We’re not out there to turn a blind eye to people killing themselves on the street."
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What utter and complete BS. UNDER-policiing has seriously and horribly "impacted" all African Americans in cities more than anybody else living there.
To every corner of the Golden State, the call went out to the waiting Cadres of the Social Workers! Comrades, you are needed in San Francisco! And these Comrades, knowing their duty, answered the call!
No one can create their own problems like a libtard can 🤪
Its an innate skill they possess.
Not just anyone can turn everything they touch into crap.
The number of social problems quickly expands to occupy the time of the number of social workers available.
RE: dissented, arguing that potential over-policing could impact African Americans....
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If they are quietly law abiding citizens happy to cooperate with law enforcement to keep the neighborhood safe, then no problem.
Does the person mean arresting a lot of criminals is synonymous with arresting a lot of black people? Then THAT is the racist idea.
Police raiders going to gambling, underage drinking, drug dealing, stolen property fencing and and prostitution places might mean 80% arrested are Aleutian Islanders and Inuit, someone might predict. See the insult factor?
First dead or raped social worker will end that fantasy..I had a co-worker who had worked at a prison and was taken prisoner during a riot...15 years later California is still paying for her disability(PTSD)
They aren’t going to change course, that would be admitting they are wrong. There will be talking and “programs” but things are going to keep getting worse in all the familiar places.
One gunship. One sortie...
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