San Francisco Mayor
Declares State of
Emergency to Fight
‘Nasty Streets’ of the City
It’s a highly unusual move by a liberal mayor in one of the country’s most liberal cities.
SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of San Francisco on Friday declared a state of emergency in one of the most crime-ridden and drug infested parts of the city.
That area, the Tenderloin neighborhood, is just steps from city hall, but it has been ground zero for drug dealing, overdose deaths and homelessness for years.
Okay, this is a fail, a BIG mistake. Drug dealing OD's and homelessness? No, Madam Mayor, those are not "state of emergency" crimes. Go to Times Square and see what real crime is.
In what many observers said was a sharp turnaround in both tone and policy, the mayor, London Breed, this week said she would pursue an “aggressive” crackdown on the “nasty streets” of her city. ...
“We are in a crisis and we need to respond accordingly,” she said at a news conference on Friday. “Too many people are dying in this city, too many people are sprawled on our streets,” she said, referring to residents who have overdosed.
The announcement of a state emergency on Friday specifically targeted the city’s drug overdose crisis. Twice as many people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last year as died from the coronavirus. But Friday’s announcement is part of a broader, aggressive push to crack down on drug dealing and improve conditions of the city’s streets.
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The announcement is part of a series of initiatives intended to disrupt street sales of stolen goods, expand police surveillance powers and give people who use drugs in the open a choice between treatment or jail. She said that declaring a state of emergency would allow the city to cut through red tape and increase funding to the police, who she said had already arrested 23 people during felony warrant sweeps.
Twenty-THREE?! Ma'am, dudette, have you taken leave of your senses. That's a good HOUR in NYC, or Miami! Have a CA-LUE.
I predict they will not ratify it.
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Crime statistics provided by the San Francisco Police Department show that several categories of crime are down over 2019, the last year before the pandemic. So far this year, there have been almost 29,000 reports of larceny, an increase over last year but well below the nearly 40,000 larcenies reported in the same period of 2019. Homicides have increased to 53 so far this year from 37 in 2019.FIFTY-THREE MOIDERS! Ho-ho-ho. London Breed just signed her political death warrant with this debacle.
