SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom on a Blitz Pushing Prop 1, a Statewide $6.4B Mental Health Bond Remember Gavin’s Newsom’s old “Care Not Cash” phrase? He’s dusting off that rhetoric with the new phrase “Treatment Not Tents,” in hopes of pushing California voters to pass his $6.38 billion mental health bond.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill That Further Expands Conservatorship of Mentally Ill People Who Refuse Treatment Just a week after Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts started up to compel severely mentally ill people into treatment even if they don’t want it, Newsom has signed a new law that allows a broader interpretation of who can be forced into what they call conservatorship.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF Politics DA Jenkins’s Drug Treatment Effort Not Really Working, Because No One’s Showing Up For Court It’s hardly encouraging that DA Brooke Jenkins's ten-month-old push to get low-level drug arrestees into treatment has only yielded three attempts to get people into treatment. It’s even less encouraging that none of them have shown up for their court dates.
SF News SF Has Now Arrested 58 People Under This New Public Drug Use Crackdown In the nine days since Mayor Breed and law enforcement started this much-ballyhooed drug use crackdown, the Sheriff’s Office claims that 58 people have been arrested on drug-related charges.
SF Politics SF Sheriff's Department to Employ Emergency Unit to Crack Down on Drug Users as Part of Breed Plan Just in time for tourists to descend on downtown for Pride at the end of June, San Francisco sheriff's deputies will be out in force making arrests for drug dealing and open-air drug use, as part of Mayor London Breed's previously announced plan.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
SF News Final Tab on $22 Million Tenderloin Center: 300 Overdoses Reversed, 600 Enrolled In Government Benefits The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
SF News Nearly Four Months In, Neighbors Complaining of Violence and Chaos Around SoMa Rise ‘Sobering Center’ Originally billed as a ‘meth sobering center’ and then simply as a ‘drug sobering center,’ the new facility SoMa Rise is raising tensions among neighbors who think it’s only making the area near Seventh and Howard Streets worse.
SF News One Month In, New SoMa ‘Drug Sobering Center’ Gets Mixed Reviews More than 300 visitors have accessed the new SoMa Rise sobering center in its first month open, but it’s still unclear whether it's producing any good outcomes, or justifying its $4.2 million-a-year price tag.
SF News The Tenderloin 'Formerly Known As Linkage’ Center To Shut Down at the End of the Year The Tenderloin Center that started as the centerpiece of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin emergency declaration will be wound down by year’s end, as Breed’s new budget yanks the funding for it.
SF News Tenderloin Linkage Center Gets Approved for Six More Months, But Don’t Call It a ‘Linkage Center’ The controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center has been quietly renamed to simply the Tenderloin Center, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved it staying at UN Plaza another six months, for the rest of 2022.
SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Tenderloin Police Seized Four Times as Much Fentanyl From the Streets In 2020 As In 2019 You may have heard this grim statistic already: 713 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020, mostly from fentanyl, and that's nearly triple the number of people who died from COVID here last year.
SF News Non-Police ‘Street Crisis Response Team’ Launches Today in Tenderloin It’s sort of like “Care Not Cops,” as the hopefully less escalatory Street Crisis Response Team starts its Mental Health SF pilot program today for non-violent incident response.
SF News Napa Mom And Boyfriend Arrested For Death And Sexual Assault Of 3-Year-Old 23-Year-old Sara Krueger and her boyfriend 26-year-old Ryan Scott Warner of Napa were arrested in El Cerrito on Sunday morning in connection with the alleged sexual assault and homicide of Kreuger's three-year-old daughter
SF News Santa Clara Thinks It Has an Ecstasy 'Epidemic' Oh, jeez, here we go again. Santa Clara County health officials have put together a PSA warning teens about the dangers of ecstasy, in response to some surveying that found that one in
SF News Five Busloads Of Bay Area Teens Busted With Enormous Drug Cache Five busloads of Bay Area high school students bound for a ski trip in Utah were busted by cops in Elko, Nevada for a truly impressive drug stash that looks to amount to
SF News Bystanders Rush to Grab Free Weed Spilled From a Crashed Truck in San Jose It goes to show you: Everybody smokes weed! A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by
SF News San Francisco Mom, Son, Public Toilet Featured On 'Intervention' On last night's Intervention (the Emmy Award-winning reality series that follows drug addicts around with a camera, culminating in a usually heart-wrenching "gift" of rehab presented by the subject's family) two locals were
