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Mayor London Breed Declares State Of Emergency In San Francisco’s Troubled Tenderloin – CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Mayor London Breed declared a local state of emergency in the criminal Tenderloin District of San Francisco on Friday, allowing city officials to forego certain laws in order to quickly counter a rising tide of deadly fentanyl overdoses.

The proclamation was an extension of the emergency intervention Breed introduced earlier this week, which aims to dispatch additional police officers to the 50-square-block neighborhood to combat increasing gun violence and open-air drug trafficking.

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The state of emergency now brings additional health services. Breed announced the state of emergency during a press conference on Friday.

“The situation at the tenderloin is an emergency and requires an emergency response,” said Breed. “We showed during COVID that we can get things done and make real, tangible progress when we are able to use a declaration of emergency to overcome bureaucracy and barriers that stand in the way of decisive action.”

“We will use this focus and coordination to stop the illegal activities in the neighborhood, to give people the treatment and support they need, and to make the Tenderloin a safer and more livable place for families and children who call the neighborhood their home. “

The state of emergency must be ratified by the board of directors within the next seven days and will not last longer than 90 days.

Fentanyl overdoses and deaths have hit alarming levels in the city. Much of the drug trafficking can be traced back to the tenderloin and a pipeline that supplies brazen street vendors in the district from outside the city.

“We lose more than two people a day to drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl and mostly from Tenderloin and SoMa,” said supervisor Matt Haney. “This is a public health emergency that requires a crisis level response with massive urgency, coordination and determination to address this epidemic.”

“We have proven during the pandemic that our city can move forward with solutions that are commensurate with the scale and threat of a
deadly epidemic, ”Haney continued. “We need an emergency response to drug overdoses with immediate rapid crisis intervention, contact and coordination on our streets, with advanced treatment and detoxification.”

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Breed’s anger and frustration over a surge in crime in the city, particularly the Tenderloin, was fully shown at another press conference earlier this week.

“It is time to end the rule of the criminals who are destroying our city,” she said. “And it ends when we take steps to make law enforcement more aggressive. More aggressive with the changes in our policy and less tolerant of all the crap that has destroyed our city. “

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On Tuesday afternoon, the SFPD’s Tenderloin Station Twitter account released information about police activities in the neighborhood over the past week, including the seizure of nearly a kilo of drugs – of which more than half (over 600 grams) was fentanyl – and the arrests of 17 suspected drug dealers.

Of these suspected dealers, 14 had previously been arrested in San Francisco.

Last week drug control in the TL:
– more than 950 grams of drugs seized (more than 600 grams of fentanyl)
– Seized over $ 3,400 in drug money
– 3 knives and 1 taser confiscated
– 17 dealers arrested (14 had previous SF arrests, 5 violated no-show orders, 6 pending arrest warrants)

– SFPD Tenderloin (@SFPDTenderloin) December 14, 2021

The Tenderloin raid was just one of four crime-fighting initiatives that Breed announced at a press conference that afternoon.

The other three were:

  • Securing the funding of the emergency police for the required resources
  • Changing our surveillance regulation to allow law enforcement agencies to interrupt crime in real time
  • Stopping illegal street sales of stolen property.

“In the past few months we have seen not only a number of high-profile incidents of brazen robberies and car break-ins, but also street behavior and criminal activity, especially in the tenderloin, that has become far too normal and can no longer be tolerated,” Rasse said.

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“All of our residents, our workers and everyone who visits our city should feel safe, no matter what part of the city they are in. I know San Francisco is a compassionate city, ”continued Breed. “We are a city that prides itself on second chances and rehabilitation. But we are not a city where anything is possible. Our compassion should not be confused with weakness or indifference. “

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