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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@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 …0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Obscene, and that's why our criminal justice system should focus on real crime, and stop promoting lawlessness with its counterproductive drug war. Let the purveyors and users of these drugs move indoors and off the streets of our poor tenderloin.
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