I want to address some of the wildly inaccurate statements that have been circulating about the Tenderloin Abatement Area and the work my office is doing to keep it safe. These claims are not founded in the truth and it's time to set the record straight.
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In September I filed 28 lawsuits against drug dealers who come to the Tenderloin to prey on victims in the area. The injunctions are crafted to target specific individuals, and will only be issued by a judge, and only after the case is proven in a court of law.
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None of the 28 drug dealers we are seeking injunctions against live in the Tenderloin. Instead, they travel from around the Bay Area to the Tenderloin to sell deadly drugs like heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl, drugs that are fueling our City's overdose crisis.
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These defendants do not call the Tenderloin home, and they are not going there seeking health services. All of them have been arrested for dealing drugs at least twice in the Tenderloin in the last year, and many of them have lengthy arrest histories.
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There are also baseless claims that the City is turning its back on "vulnerable migrant youth" with these lawsuits. Let me be clear, this could not be further from the truth. The lone defendant who does live in San Francisco is 46 years old, and all of the defendants are adults.
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My track record on defending San Francisco’s sanctuary laws and immigrant community speaks for itself. In the past four years alone, I beat the Trump administration in four separate cases in court. But our sanctuary laws were never designed to protect criminals.
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Some have compared these lawsuits to "ineffective and discriminatory" gang injunctions. But San Francisco’s gang injunctions were effective and included full due process protections. Those injunctions were a piece of the puzzle that reduced homicides in gang areas.
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The drug overdose deaths in the Tenderloin are too much. The children, the seniors, the parents in the neighborhood deserve better. We need to do everything we can to stop this neighborhood from being used as the Bay Area's open-air drug market.
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These injunctions are not meant to be a panacea to combat the drug dealing in the Tenderloin. But they will give law enforcement one more tool to help keep residents safe. https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Ltr-to-advocates.pdf …
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Thank you @dennk @SFPDTenderloin @USAO_NDCA @FBISanFrancisco for doing what @SFDAOffice @chesaboudin refuses to do.
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