Veteran Abraham Siliezer was struggling with the fallout of a brain injury when he disappeared in San Francisco last year. Police found his body in a ravine behind the VA hospital. Could conservatorship have helped save him? If not, what else? My story:
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New: Data shows that a program in S.F. to mandate more homeless people struggling with addiction and mental illness into treatment has largely failed. Here's why:
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Officials and team members said they're hamstrung by strict laws on forced treatment, and someone might be quickly released if they go to the hospital anyways. But two social workers told me they think teams leave too many people in need of hospitalization on the streets.
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Some key takeaways: The city met its goal and police no longer respond to non-violent behavioral health 911 calls. People remained in the community after 57% of interactions with teams. 64% of people they meet are homeless. Teams mandated hospitalization in 5% of cases.
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ICYMI: S.F.'s street crisis team, an alternative police response to mental illness, got attention last month when it responded to the homeless person hosed by a gallery owner. After millions of $ spent, what does 2 years of data show about their impact?
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Fifth & Mission: The incident of an unhoused person being sprayed by a hose raised questions about the effectiveness of San Francisco’s street teams, which tried to help the person. joins to discuss what the data says.
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The first permit was granted to a worker in the Tenderloin who told the growth in open drug use and dealing in recent years prompted him to request the permit.
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Pushed by a landmark Supreme Court ruling, San Francisco has approved a rare concealed-carry gun permit — known as a CCW — even as Democratic lawmakers work on limiting the practice.
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New: S.F. tapped Urban Alchemy to respond to low-level 911 calls about homelessness instead of police in a new pilot. Community groups who campaigned for the program are pushing back on the pick. Will the team, whoever runs it, have an impact?
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EXCLUSIVE: Neither Half Moon Bay farm involved in Monday's shooting had required permits for workers to live on property, county launching investigation. County officials had called the living conditions "squalor" and "deplorable" w/
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“A complete turnaround," Kuzma described the baby breathing after receiving overdose-reversing medication Narcan, which only has an effect if opioids are in your system. “The father was able to come into the ambulance and hold his son, a wonderful moment.”
"Kuzma learned that the child had been playing, then became lethargic and stopped breathing — and he saw the baby’s constricted pupils. From his three decades of experience, he knew those can be indicators of an opioid overdose."
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A judge has releases police body-camera footage (image below) of the moment David DePape attacks Paul Pelosi with a hammer. The full video will be posted in full here. Discretion advised. sfchronicle.com/crime/article/
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I spoke with paramedic rescue captain who revived baby at Moscone Park with Narcan. Hospital diagnosed baby with fentanyl overdose, according to record provided by family. Police are investigating, but how baby was exposed, as hospital said, is a mystery.
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'Oh my God, he killed him!' Farmworkers share firsthand account of start of Half Moon Bay rampage
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Mario Navarro, the 18-year-old shot and killed in Oakland's mass shooting on Monday, was kind, loving and always put his family first, according to relatives.
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'Living in shipping containers, making $9 an hour’: The massacre in Half Moon Bay has once again highlighted the poor labor conditions and the hidden workers on many California farms
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Our story on #HalfMoonBay shooting suspect Chunli Zhao. I reported from Cupertino, finding the restaurant where Zhao briefly worked and threatened a co-worker and the bank where he and his wife used to send money back to China.
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EXCLUSIVE: Suspected Half Moon Bay shooter Chunli Zhao previously threatened to split a coworker's head open w kitchen knife; tried to suffocate the man with a pillow, per court records. @sfchronicle @hannah_hagemann @mallorymoench
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San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks about deputies arresting #halfmoonbayshooting suspect and her pain as a mother knowing children lived on farms targeted.
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Important story by and on the impact of recent mass shootings on the Asian-American community:
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“This farm and others, they’ve already been under so much stress with the pandemic, with the high cost of inflation that’s gone up, and now with the flooding and the damage and loss of wages and on top of this, this tragedy.”
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San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks about deputies arresting #halfmoonbayshooting suspect and her pain as a mother knowing children lived on farms targeted.
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EXCLUSIVE: Suspected Half Moon Bay shooter Chunli Zhao previously threatened to split a coworker's head open w kitchen knife; tried to suffocate the man with a pillow, per court records.
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At Hall of Justice in Redwood City waiting for San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to give an update on the #halfmoonbayshooting
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End route to Stanford Medical Center, where it’s been reported three critically injured victims from the #halfmoonbayshooting have been transported. Reach out with tips.
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New: S.F. Supervisor wants to try this financial incentive to recruit police officers and fill vacant positions. But have other incentives passed last year helped yet?
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Police in S.F. are still using marijuana as a reason to stop people, and they are overwhelming using it to stop Black people.
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NEW: Mayor Breed wants to open a safe consumption site, but also wants to separate the city from any financial or legal liability.
Today she signaled that nonprofits should move forward and open such a site — but on their own.
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NEW: San Francisco’s drug crisis shows no sign of abating, with 2022 nearly as deadly as the prior year, new data reveals.
Fatal overdoses fell by nearly 12% from a peak in 2020 to 2021; but between 2021 and 2022 they only dipped slightly, by 3%.
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New: Here's how much S.F. spent on police overtime in Union Square over the holidays, as Mayor London Breed tried to prevent more viral retail theft and lure shoppers to the downtown area vital to the city's economy.
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New: Thousands live homeless on S.F.'s streets. But those who want shelter say it's a byzantine process to get a bed, with no easy way to self-refer. It's one argument among many in a federal lawsuit criticizing the city's homeless response.
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New: Here's how much S.F. spent on police overtime in Union Square over the holidays, as Mayor London Breed tried to prevent more viral retail theft and lure shoppers to the downtown area vital to the city's economy.
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Mayor Breed is in DC this week, attending mayors conference and speaking on panels about homelessness and fentanyl epidemic. She will also join Golden State Warriors championship celebration at White House with President Biden and inauguration of Maryland's first Black governor.
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They sang at breakfast, said goodbye and left in separate cars. Then, she vanished in Sonoma County floodwaters
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A homeless woman sprayed with a hose by a San Francisco art gallery owner has been hospitalized. Why was "Q" on the street in the first place?
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S.F. vowed to better coordinate its homelessness crisis services. Is it working? sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F via
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Pressure mounts on Mayor Breed to open supervised drug consumption sites. Sam Rivera, who runs two in NY, said "she has a responsibility to...take care of this and do it the right way. I believe she will...If not, she’s going to lose thousands of people."
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Breed mentioned $630 million flood mitigation project, but it's years away from completion, offering no relief still ongoing storms. She said supervisors could help raise awareness about new areas impacted by flooding and encouraged residents and businesses to call 311.
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"We assess, deploy and learn how to better respond...Climate change is here and it's causing us to rapidly adapt to a changing landscape," Breed said, adding city handed out 15k sandbags, responded to 3,600 311 calls, set up 170 shelter beds that weren't full despite outreach.
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