'Public health calamity': SF Mayor Breed asks for federal assistance with city's drug crisis

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Breed admits San Francisco needs help to slow drug dealing that's happening every day on the streets. She just wrote a letter to the newly appointed U.S. Attorney for Northern California Ismail Ramsey, saying the problem is beyond the city's control.

Breed says the city needs additional and ongoing support from the Department of Justice to both arrest and prosecute drug dealers. This is all at a time when the Fentanyl-driven overdose epidemic has brought open-air drug dealing to a new level.

In 2021, Breed declared a three-month emergency over the drug crisis in the city's Tenderloin, using city resources to crack down on drug dealing. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says drug dealing prosecutions are increasing at her office but adds federal assistance is welcome.In a statement to ABC7 News, Jenkins said, "No single agency or department is able to tackle the crisis of drug dealing and the impacts it's having in and on our communities alone."

 

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LondonBreed has not apologized or said she was wrong for her support of defunding SFPD. She has not fired any current member of SFPDCommission for their anti-police actions.

All happened under her watch

How about start pressing charges?

I mean when corrupt bureaucrats smuggle it into our country for self gain that’s what happens

She woke up?

Dealers who enable addicts need to be stopped LondonBreed GavinNewsom

Nobody talks about all the Contraband that comes through the Port of Vancouver BC 🇨🇦, and head's south across the Border 🤔

This needs to say, Breed FINALLY admits…”

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