More than 90% of drug users arrested in San Francisco's recent crackdown are not from the city, according to police. One activist says the city is a 'magnet.'
"The majority of the people that we are coming in contact with … they don't live here," Scott said at a recent San Francisco Police Commission meeting.
Scott called the statistics"surprising" but could only offer anecdotal answers for why more than 90% of alleged users were not local. He said he has spoken with people on the streets, asking why they chose to do drugs in San Francisco. "I’ve gotten answers like, ‘Drugs are cheap and plenty available, and you’ve got an environment where it’s permitted,’" Scott said.Wolf was addicted to heroin and homeless in San Francisco's Tenderloin district in 2018. His sixth arrest landed him in jail long enough to get clean and reevaluate his life, he said. Now, he is a recovery advocate and has often criticized city and state officials' approach to the drug crisis.
"The fact of the matter is that San Francisco is a regional magnet for homelessness," Wolf said."We have robust services, everybody leaves you alone, and we have the cheapest drugs in California right here in San Francisco. That all has to change if we want to save the city."Board of Supervisors meeting"People abscond from their law enforcement obligations or their legal obligations in other counties and come to San Francisco to disappear off the grid," Wolf said.
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