FILE – People sleep near discarded clothing and used needles on a street in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, on July 25, 2019. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, an emergency order to speed up the city’s ability to stem the high number of overdose deaths in the notorious Tenderloin district. The emergency order is part of Mayor London Breed’s plan to crack down on drug use and drug dealing in the neighborhood.
FILE – San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks during a briefing outside City Hall in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, an emergency order to speed up the city’s ability to stem the high number of overdose deaths in the notorious Tenderloin district. The emergency order is part of Mayor Breed’s plan to crack down on drug use and drug dealing in the neighborhood.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Critics of the San Francisco mayor’s plan to crack down on drugs are urging a no vote when city leaders meet Thursday to authorize an emergency order slashing red tape to better address overdose deaths in the troubled Tenderloin neighborhood.
The public health emergency declaration allows the Department of Emergency Management to waive permitting, zoning and contract procurement rules to more quickly hire street cleaners and security and to set up a new temporary center where people can receive treatment and counseling, Mayor London Breed has said.
The order has nothing to do with police deployment, but critics are urging the Board of Supervisors to reject the declaration because of Breed’s broader plan to flood the area with officers and force drug users into jail if they won’t accept treatment.
“Threatening people with arrest doesn’t work as a way to get addicted folks into treatment,” said San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, who wants the mayor to spend money on expanding mental health services, alternatives to policing and hotel rooms for the homeless.
“We can do this, but only if we learn from past mistakes instead of repeating them,” he said on social media.
The Tenderloin includes museums, the main public library and government offices, including City Hall. But it’s also teeming with people who are homeless or marginally housed, a high concentration of drug dealers and people consuming drugs in broad view.
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