Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
"Portugal’s policy rests on three pillars: one, that there’s no such thing as a soft or hard drug, two, unhealthy relationships with drugs often conceals frayed relationships and three, that the eradication of all drugs is an impossible goal."https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it …