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Friday, October 14, 2022

San Francisco Is Drowning In Drugs

“Mica/DrivingMSSQL” for Borderlandbeat.com



On the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin and the adjacent SoMa neighborhood, at any given moment of the day or night, hundreds of people stagger through the streets, high on opioids and methamphetamines, some of them suffering methamphetamine-induced psychotic breaks. 

Some People smoke narcotics on the sidewalk in full view of the public, and brazenly buy and sell drugs in direct view of police officers, who do nothing to stop them. In the Mid-Market area, store employees spend their days watching drug addicts openly steal merchandise off their shelves, to resell for drug money.

So, what is the city of San Francisco doing in the face of these menacing signs of social collapse? Last month, the San Francisco Public Defender’s office put out a triumphant press release, boasting that the city had abandoned its two-year effort to prohibit 28 known, repeat drug dealers from stepping foot in the Tenderloin neighborhood in which they openly peddle meth, heroin, fentanyl, and other drugs. 

The Public Defender’s office, along with the ACLU, which represented the defendants, claimed that the stay-away orders that the city had sought were unconstitutional and racist. After a trial judge and an appeals court judge sided with the defense, the city gave up. To the ultra-progressive faction of the San Francisco political establishment, this win for the drug dealers was a win for social justice.

An opinion column in the San Francisco Chronicle applauded the city’s defeat, calling the proposed stay-away orders part of the city’s “war on drugs.” For most San Francisco residents, it’s hard to square that depiction with what they see every day. If there is a “war on drugs” anywhere in San Francisco, there can be little question about who is winning.

Under the terms of the city’s proposed order, the drug dealers, most of whom don’t even live in San Francisco, would have been allowed to take public transit through the Tenderloin—just as long as they didn’t get off within the designated boundaries of the city’s sprawling open-air drug market. 

Despite the Chronicle’s sob story about one of the drug dealers potentially being prohibited under the terms of the injunction from getting a fetal ultrasound at a Tenderloin clinic, the order would have in fact allowed defendants to keep lawful appointments—including prenatal checkups—in the Tenderloin, if they got advance permission from the court. The order was crafted to prevent one thing and one thing only: drug dealers selling more drugs in the Tenderloin.

But even this modest aim was too much for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Defender’s office to stomach. Mano Raju, the elected Public Defender, called it the “criminalization and incarceration of low-income communities of color.” (The glaring racism of casually equating drug dealers with “low-income communities of color” was lost on the Public Defender.) The ACLU called it a “massive overreach” by the city.

The Public Defender’s position seems to be that any infringement on drug dealers’ ability to sell narcotics freely in the Tenderloin is an act of racist oppression. (The Public Defender’s office did not respond to a request for comment.) Last March, the Public Defender filed a motion in court (still pending) accusing a San Francisco police officer, who is himself of Mexican and Nicaraguan ancestry and whose first language is Spanish, of being racist against Latinos because he had arrested dozens of drug dealers over a two-year period, all of whom were Latino. The reason his arrestees where all Latino is quite simple: The Sinaloa drug cartel, which controls the flow of meth and fentanyl into San Francisco from its home in Mexico, does not practice Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The cartel exclusively recruits Honduran nationals and smuggles them into the United States to push their dope.

By the Public Defender’s logic, San Francisco can’t arrest drug dealers unless and until the drug-dealing population is adequately diverse. It can’t imprison drug dealers, because that’s mass incarceration. And it can’t disrupt the drug trade through non-carceral means, either.

What it amounts to is this: The Public Defender and the ACLU see their role as preventing the city from disrupting the organized drug trade in the Tenderloin, which means that they are in effect acting as the Sinaloa cartel’s private attorneys. As they stymie the city’s enforcement efforts, a dozen people a week die of drug overdoses and the city looks ever-less like the capital of the tech industry that once made Northern California the envy of nearly everywhere else on earth, and more like a scene from a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

One could write off this kind of advocacy as the product of San Francisco’s leftist political fringe, but until recently, it’s the fringe that has been running the city. District Attorney Chesa Boudin came out of the Public Defender’s office. Voters recently threw him out of office in a landslide recall election, but even then, he had the support of all but two of the city’s Board of Supervisors. Mayor London Breed, who famously pledged to fight “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city,” herself seemed somewhat rudderless until recently on the desirability of enforcing laws. Mano Raju, who has described Breed’s plans for the Tenderloin as “a new War on Drugs,” was the Mayor’s own appointee.

There’s a plague of drug sales and open drug consumption in San Francisco, and a wave of crimes against people and property that has come along with it. But the real problem is the city’s political leaders, half of whom subscribe to a fairy-tale ideology of victims and oppressors that puts them on the side of drug dealers who openly commit mass murder in the city’s streets. Things have now gotten to the point, however, where San Francisco voters, progressive as they may be, seem to have stopped buying the nonsense that their leaders are selling. Next month’s election may shatter the fantasies of the city’s progressive political establishment once and for all.

60 comments:

  1. That the dealers were back in the street meant they were not dealing high volumes.If they are caught again,they should be arrested,but after sentence served they should be a free man.What happened to repeat offenders getting higher sentences.In LA they had gang injunctions which should something similar applied to these dealers.
    I lived in LA for about 30 years,a lot of people from out of state,poor or homeless, go the there because its not cold,hardly rains and the food stamps.California is the 7 or 8th biggest economy in the world if it was country and pays the most to the federal budget - part of it comes back.
    They have to deal with the homeless though.

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    1. California is the 5th strongest economy in the world.

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  2. The food stamps in California is used to buy groceries for somebody who then pays less in cash,the cash is used to buy drugs.Last time I was there food stamps was $250.

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  3. Thanks for the post Mica. Good read, sad story. It's much the same in the PNW. Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Yakima...all awash in drugs, homelessness, and the crime those things proliferate.

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    1. The whole country is awash in drugs. I grew up in Yakima and my addicted friend there said meth goes for $200 an Oz or about $15 a gram on the street. Basically free. He said the stupid blue pills are $1 - $2. It's freaking nuts.

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  4. Seattle and san Francisco looking bad right now

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    1. The whole country is like this. Kensington in Philadelphia is far worse.

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    2. Definitely not the whole country. Just where you choose to live most likely. You make ignorant decisions.

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    3. The whole country is being inundated with fentanyl right now. We’re currently in the worst of it is my belief. Even certain parts of Canada are getting hit hard by fent. I’d give almost anything to trade Russia or Iran’s current heroin “problem” for our fent crisis.

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    4. 11:28 You clearly haven’t done your research

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    5. The inner city life. Decades can pass and the only change will be the drugs and addicts, the decaying will continue

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    6. 11:32 fent was in Vancouver before anywhere else

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  5. Not just San Francisco, the whole US is flooded.
    Those Chinese messed merica up, but merica just blame Mexico..
    The war is on drug is lost

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    1. Well Mexico is the one actually producing it using the Chinese precursors and Mexico is the one consciously choosing to traffic synthetics and things like fentanyl instead of good old fashion heroin.

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    2. 11:28 Consumer decides market. So, not sure if blaming Mexico for your horrendous drug habits is a good idea.

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    3. 11:21
      First of it's spelled AMERICA.
      Lastly the precursor chemicals are shipped to Mexico, labs in Mexico make the illegal drugs. They get shipped to USA illegally, thereby the problem lies with Mexico

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    4. 12:50 Consumer does not decide the market when there’s no competition dummy. If there was actually competition then it would favor better and more euphoric opioids like oxycodone and heroin over fentanyl. Use common sense.

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    5. 12:50 Oh and trust me, I blame the U.S. government MUCH more for the fentanyl and meth problem overall than Mexico. Mexico wasn’t the one who created prohibition or greatly cut off the supply of oxycodone to the streets.

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    6. 1:01 Blaming Mexico for your consuming habits isnt very smart. Is like blaming China for manufacturing your smart phones... if not China will be any other country. So long before Mexico was on drug trade map the US had a relation with drugs. If not Mexico will be any other country, but the market is there requesting for more. Thats basic Economy. Mind your own business and fix your mess.

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    7. 1:01 the chemicals come from China. Without China there would be no fentynil or cheap Chrystal meth. MERICA would not be flooded like It is now without the chemicals shipped by the tons to Mexico. Mexico and merica have a good business relationship and if merica and Mexico decided to ban those chemicals in Mexico, they would.
      Just a big show. War on drugs never started in the first place.

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    8. 3:29 get you head out of the cow manure.

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    9. 8:14 Ok amazingly ignorant friend, OK.

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    10. Ignorance blames a whole country, forgetting that US Investors own much of China "industry" because they offshored it there, Mexican drug traffickers are just the nearest middle men and they get changed almost every new 4 or 6 years with new governments or melitary zone commanders and police chiefs.
      Blaming whole countries for their criminals is kind of lazy.

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    11. 4:02 is so ignorant, he does not know how to spell America.

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    12. 1:01 shurrap, Marricon.

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  6. Regarding San Francisco's drug problem:
    1. SF has been a haven for illicit and deviant people since it was established as an international port. Sailors, military, and others linked to boring , sometimes dangerous, sea voyaging need recreation and (2) supporting elements....and there are people ever ready to provide such. So alcohol, and opium , not to mention music, gambling, fine food, and sex.. Yeah, booze, opium, pot, and sex...lots of the above.
    (3)
    My point is that SF is a natural den of vice and damaged people. Nothing is going to change SF...

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    1. Thats true. After gold rush, SF what the first/main destination for Opium trade, back in 1860's-1900 +/-, handled by chinese immigrants from mexican east coast to SF.

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  7. Will be high fives all around the Chinese Party Congress next month when Chairman Xi with great success in his hybrid drug war against america will handed a unprecedented 3rd term! The empires collapse continues! Once US$ reserve currency status is kaput--which the BRICS and many other countries are pursuing--the collapse will be terminal! Inflation will be 80% per year or worse as trillions of unwanted $$$ flood back to America and interest rates spike to 30%! Rough times ahead!!!

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    1. Shurrup ballbag your being racist

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    2. Lil nuts you woke up being Racist today.

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    3. 12:55 the chinese Real Estate market is crashing big time, it will be the government loss, that what they get for copying US "industry" of real estate scam...source: google.

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    4. 12:55 is too smart for this site.
      He spoke the truth, you sheep just sleep walking

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    5. 4:05 🤦‍♂️

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    6. 12:55 speaks fake jive

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  8. 11:45 you tell them then girlfriend
    I mean like really you know

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  9. The policies they voted for

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    1. Correct. They vote for Politicians who let the homeless and mentally Ill sleep wherever and do whatever they want and then have the nerve to complain about Frisco being a drug den! Can’t have one without the other. No or little consequences for stealing goods worth less than $950. Open drug market. Clean needles and pipes for all druggies in sight! Disgusting city, terrible state.

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    2. Not so simple,in LA,for ex.,there are shelters but they have to be inside and can't go out after a certain time.A lot of them don't want that,they like to roam around past bed time.What you're gonna do.They have to be tougher but not so simple

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    3. 9:19 That would’ve happened no matter who they would’ve voted for nutter.

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    1. Sheep follow,your post is undeniable

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    2. You will be ridiculed for pointing out facts

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  11. Jesus is coming he will change san Francisco!

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  12. Nonsense.About Game Plan.Nobody is forcing Americans to take these chemical drugs.Some people don't want or could not handle the rat race.Some people are anti-social,some watch too much TV.Some were dealt a bad hand or left behind by the competition and could not cope.Complex.
    There is more chance to confront the actual problem if drugs were legal.Illegality clouds or hides the problem

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  13. I seen on the news how there are Tables set up swap-meet style for all the stolen goods drug-addicts steal & trade in for Fentanyl on the same blocks were the Dealers are located.

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  14. But really, when we say drugs in this context we’re only really talking about a select few specific substances. Coke, meth and fentanyl; with the latter two being a much bigger deal. There’s only some heroin left and things like weed and ketamine and psychedelics are not really the culprits. If the government regulated alternative amphetamines and opioids this wouldn’t be some out of control issue and there’d be far more tax money to fund addiction treatment and harm reduction education not fear based education which leads to incorrect/ignorant usage styles.

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    1. 11:25 on the hands of the government, drug trafficking would not leave much tax free "dark money" in the hands of interested parties, banksters and politrickos included.

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    2. 3:53 Yes it would. Have you never read the details for measures put forth for weed legalization? A certain amount has to go to use in areas that are outlined in the wording of the law.

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    3. 6:01 that "certain amount" paid by legal dispensers (whose clients I don't believe are street persons") must be getting stolen, like the budget for mental patients kicked out of programs all over the US to have more money for police stations, squad cars, palaces of government, militarized police training and bureaucrats lining their golden parachutes with gold bricks, all that results in No Results on the problems of broke addicted derrelicts.

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  15. Wasn’t there recently an article or something about San Francisco wanting to partially legalize or regulate hydromorophone to combat the use rates of fentanyl? Wish SD had a plan like that. You can’t just.. not regulate opioids to some degree lol. When you make it to where even mild opioids like codeine and hydrocodone aren’t at least available over the counter you’ve really shot yourself in the foot from a societal standpoint. Prohibition is too predictable.

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  16. Asshole DEA should reclassify hallucinogens so ppl could take good healthy trips instead of escaping w opioids

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    1. Or they should just do that while also legalizing normal opioids

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    2. 7:58 DAE might be too busy making law on the spot to legalize shit, DOJ does not make laws for the books.
      Like the Secret Service, some elements may be corruct or use independent contractors like CIA's Snowden employer

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  17. Heroin should be legalized and distributed in clinics like methadone. It's what they do in Europe and Canada.

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