Last month San Francisco started arresting drug users, 95% were from out of town

Hotair ^ | 06/20/2023 | John Sexton

[alexander_busek]

Does that mean that the 42 who did not have a Frisco address were from out of town, or that they were Friscans who did not have a Frisco address? Might some, if not most, have been living in cars, under stairwells, on a different planet, or camping outside doorways of former Union Square businesses all in Frisco?

It is, apparently, of immense importance whether these drug addicts who are making the streets unsafe are native San Franciscans or "out-of-towners."

Regards,

[Organic Panic]

There is a republican, somewhere, anywhere, to blame for this.

[irishjuggler]

“I don’t believe that 95% are from out of town.”

I’m in S.F., and I actually do believe it. The local media has been reporting on the so-called homeless for years, and they interview them for TV and radio quite often about their stories of ending up on the street. I’ve yet to hear one declare himself/herself to be an S.F. native. Invariably the stories are about people from Modesto or Stockton or Fresno or Winnemucca who came to S.F. to score cheap and easy-to-find drugs, and they found just what they were looking for.

[varyouga]

“Real compassion is tough love and not allowing bad behavior.”

How do you institute “tough love” for people who already live in a state of constant fear/violence in squalor among other insane people like rats? Jail ,by comparison, is like a vacation by nearly all metrics and drugs are still easily available.

We already have some of the highest incarceration rates in the world and there is no room in many areas to jail even all the violent homeless. Jailing everyone for drug use is simply impossible and the homeless will just enjoy the free bed and shelter if we try. Jail costs several times more than housing and nothing the state can do is worse punishment than what they already experience on a daily basis...

[FoxInSocks]

Nearly 95% of people arrested for drug use in San Francisco since May 30 are from out of town, Police Chief Bill Scott said

Wow, they arrested a whole 15 people per week. Quite the dragnet for this operation.

They need to hire Captain Renault: “Round up the usual suspects!”

[ronnie raygun]

Arresting drug users not supplying cartels and gangs coming across the border. Just like guns are the problem not the people behind them. Mental illness thrives

[Wuli]

San Fran as much as “invited” them there, by its lax policing of everything.

[Seaplaner]

Yup, Friscans just HATE it when anyone calls their portapotty of a city Frisco "Frisco", don't they?

[Vaduz]

Stoner states find out it’s a magnet for drug users.

And they expected what?.

[ridesthemiles]

THEA ACTUAL size of San Francisco proper is ONLY 7 square miles.

It is very small by other city standards.

This is a word game by Mayor Breed.

[Antoninus]

This is what happens when you elect a George Soros stooge as DA.

[KingofZion]

I like the part where it said 0% of the perps who were arrested agreed to free treatment.

None of these people want to kick their drug habits, they just want to get the next fix, which they can do in SF.