The article critiques the current leadership under Mayor Daniel Lurie, highlighting a significant rise in fentanyl deaths in San Francisco, despite aggressive policing and incarceration of drug users. It contrasts this approach with evidence supporting science-backed methods such as overdose prevention and rehabilitation. Critics argue that the current strategies result in a cycle of arrest and release that fails to address underlying addiction, mental health, and societal issues, ultimately leading to increased fatalities and a lack of effective solutions.
If you look past the press releases and corporate media headlines, you'll see that what's actually happening is people in active addiction are being shuffled from one block to another, arrested, jailed, and released.
A study in the Harm Reduction Journal, looking specifically at San Francisco, concluded that the traditional policing approach to drug use-related crime did not reduce arrests or incarceration and was associated with a risk of future overdose fatalities.
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