We are finally seeing real urgency and change in the TL. Over 500 people brought overwhelmingly into hotels over last 3 weeks. This is what we wanted and envisioned when we all worked so hard to pass our hotel legislation, for the TL and entire city.https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-cleans-up-Tenderloin-dramatic-65-15383753.php …
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Replying to @MattHaneySF
Thank you! And now please get
@chesaboudin & DA office to deal with open drug dealings next. Yes, addiction is not a crime, but they don’t commute to Palo Alto to buy drugs! The dealings are right there, OPENLY, in the TL. Please make it stop
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Replying to @chezpim @MattHaneySF
Fact: approximately 20% of my general felony team's caseload are drug sales. We do prosecute these cases, everyday, for better or worse. As we've learned from the war on drugs after all these decades of failure: this is not a problem we can police or prosecute our way out of.
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You really are full of shit. I don't know if you really don't understand the war on drugs and why it failed or if you are just lying but neither is acceptable. The problem with the so called war on drugs was that it failed to address both supply and demand. (Cont.)
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Replying to @BadWolfLil @chesaboudin and
Going after supply is meaningless unless you acknowledge that demand is a necessary part of the equation. In this case that means acknowledging that addiction is real, that it is widespread AND that it is a problem. Instead of pandering to the "know addiction crowd who
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Replying to @BadWolfLil @chesaboudin and
have zero problem with wncouraging drug use you should be focusing on treatment and recovery. And you must stop ignoring the FACT that addiction and crime go hand in hand. Not just the crime of possessing illegal drugs but
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the criminal behavior engaged in to feed the adfiction or resulting from mental/emotional illness caused by/excacerbated by addiction. Who cares if your office is prosecuting (by what, catch and release?) the supply side of illegal drugs when you refuse to even acknowledge the
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problem with (let alone prosecute) the demand side. Thank GOD a sf police officer ignored this city's policy of turning a blind eye and instead arrested my brother and set him on the road to revovery. Because, @chesaboudin, if he'd done it YOUR way, my brother would be dead.
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