Supporters of the effort are cautiously optimistic, but the city supervisor that represents the Tenderloin said it's more show than actual solution.
Monday marked the first day that California Highway Patrol officers were scheduled to start patrolling San Francisco's Tenderloin and South of Market districts as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's pledge to help with the city's fentanyl crisis.
According to the office of the medical examiner, during the first four months of this year, 200 people died of accidental overdoses in the city – 159 of them from fentanyl. The vast majority of those deaths came from the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.
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