We're working hard to reduce the fear & lawlessness created by drug dealers in the Tenderloin: Surveillance at GG/Hyde today resulted in 3 more off the street. 1 armed w/brass knuckles, 2 were fugitives in open cases. $2,000 cash & 400+ bindles fentanyl, heroin etc seized.
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Replying to @miskmp @SFPDTenderloin
Our counterproductive mass incarceration system, incentivizes usage, and has been to cause a increase in usage and violence. It's the definition of insanity that we've tried this same failed thing for 50 years. Can you explain why you think it reduces usage?
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SF does not have a system of mass incarceration. We have a revolving door where poliece do the work of arresting criminals then our progressive DA and judges undo to progress by releasing them back to the same neighborhoods they terrorize.
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Then why does SF have a higher incarceration rate than any European country? Also higher than almost everywhere in Asian too! Thanks
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In the EU you go to prison for dealing drugs. in SF you go back to dealing drugs.
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Actually the Eu doesn't really care, you can see this especially in places like amsterdam, but throughout europe drugs are less criminalized than they are in the united states. Because of their reduced enforcement, they don't have nearly the street violence we do.
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There is an enamors difference between decriminalization and the legalization you are pushing. Even in holland you face prison time for dealing hard drugs of the likes the TLPD is taking off the street.
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These substances widespread use predate our government. "Opium has been actively collected since approximately 3400 BCE. The upper Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Burma still account for the world's largest supply of opium."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
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oh please. hard drugs of today are much more deadly and addictive than they were in caveman days. Hell even weed is way stronger than it was 10 years ago.
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Its the new criminalization and prohibition regimes that have made this situation violent and dangerous, not the drugs or the users themselves that have safely been using for thousands of years.
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There is a de-facto legalization of hard drugs in this city. No punishment for dealers outside the inconvenience of being booked, and use is ignored. The utopia of hard drug legalization you seek is on the streets of the TL. Violence & death is the result.
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It isn't because supply is still violent, inconsistent and impure. Users feel frightened to call for aid, and are forced outside legalization would change these central problems.
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