No Police Crackdown on Dealers, No Sense of “Emergency”
“Police data from before and after the Tenderloin emergency shows arrests for drug-related crimes in the neighborhood are largely unchanged“—SF Chronicle February 25, 2022
Over two months ago, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a police crackdown against drug dealing in the Tenderloin. She soon followed that by declaring a State of Emergency. Breed gave the community hope that its sidewalks would soon be reclaimed from drug dealers.
But no crackdown on drug dealers ever happened. Not even for a week.
Instead:
*Police visibility in the Tenderloin has not increased;
*Promised foot patrols have not happened;
*Open drug dealing on sidewalks remains common:
*Shootings and Overdoses have continued.
It’s all been a colossal lie.
Unlike the sudden dispatching of 40-80 officers to address the November theft of handbags in Union Square—most stayed there through year’s end – it’s been business as usual in the Tenderloin despite the mayor’s announcement and the Board’s 8-2 vote to declare an Emergency.
National media loved the story of a Black mayor taking on the city’s progressive political establishment. This framing was never true—the Board backed the Emergency and the mayor controls the SFPD —but it was the story many wanted to write.
The Washington Post even echoed that theme last week, downplaying the lack of implementation of the mayor’s plans. The Post saw a conflict between “fixing” the neighborhood and “San...
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