My latest: This year through September, 516 people have died in San Francisco of a drug overdose. So why are city officials talking in circles? They should look to Portugal for answers. As many people die of an overdose in a year there as in two weeks here.https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/The-War-on-Drugs-destroyed-people-But-S-F-s-15726472.php …
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Tenderloin police made 332 drug dealing arrests from May 18 to October 11, seizing nearly $200K in cash and more than 10,000 grams of fentanyl and other drugs. DA Boudin says he needs bigger cases -- "kilos, not crumbs" -- but police say low-level arrests lead to bigger ones.
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Once arrested, why can't they keep them in jail, send them to trial and then to prison? I don't understand this revolving door thing.
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The district attorney, judges and juries don't believe in jail time for dealers.
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This answer reflects an overly simplistic understanding or is disingenuous. We are under orders to reduce our jail population due to Covid & only 4 criminal courtrooms are available for trials. We have 80+ in custody defendants waiting for trial. Context matters here.
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Thank you @mc_donahue , and the others at the @SFDAOffice under @chesaboudin for hearing our @HouseJudiciary and reducing our obscene incarceration rate in response to this existential risk posed by pandemic.
Our mass incarceration system keeps none safe.https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2893 …
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