Newsom Sending National Guard to San Francisco to Help with Fentanyl Crisis

cf.org ^ | 4/22/2023 | citizen frank

[bitt]

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) directed the state National Guard and California Highway Patrol to help in the fight against fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco.

As part of a new partnership, the agencies are tasked with identifying personnel and resources to assist San Francisco following a 41% spike in fentanyl overdose deaths in the first few months of this year.

“We are providing more law enforcement resources and personnel to crack down on crime linked to the fentanyl crisis, holding the poison peddlers accountable, and increasing law enforcement presence to improve public safety and public confidence in San Francisco,” Newsom said in a statement on Friday.

Newsom’s office said the collaboration, which also includes the San Francisco Police Department and and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, will be focused on drug suppliers and traffickers rather than seeking to criminalize those struggling with substance abuse in a city that has recorded several hundred accidental overdose deaths annually in recent years.

The agreement will “lead to the formation of a new collaborative operation between all four agencies focused on dismantling fentanyl trafficking and disrupting the supply of the deadly drug in the city by holding the operators of large-scale drug trafficking operations accountable,” the governor’s office said.

[ridesthemiles]

ANY NG member in Calif can seek refuge near me in Nevada.

[DownInFlames]

That’s right. He wants to come across as a caring governor who is using his power to care for the downtrodden he helped create through his idiot laws of decriminalizing drugs.

[ronnie raygun]

Helping them set up camp, distribute gift cards, drug paraphernalia, food, cigarettes and liquor

[miserare]

Yes!

[Elsie]

yes

[dearolddad]

I’d like to see that picture! Can you tell me where to find it?