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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie took a victory lap on Thursday after successfully convincing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Donald Trump to walk back plans\u003c/a> for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">federal immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in San Francisco — with some observers praising his political acumen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several city leaders are angered by the mayor telling the president during a late-night phone call this week that he still welcomes support from other federal law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing neighborhoods with dense immigrant populations were quick to criticize Lurie for calling for additional federal law enforcement under the Trump administration, worried such cooperation could ultimately lead to more immigration-related arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the diverse Mission District, has been particularly vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take issue with the mayor meeting with Pam Bondi and his statements to welcome ATF, FBI, DEA under Trump’s leadership, because they’ve all been deputized to carry out immigration enforcement,” Fielder said. “They are looking for any reason to criminalize immigrants, and lumping them in with drug dealers is only helping them with that task of having a mass deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lurie, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">refrained from saying Trump’s name publicly\u003c/a>, said he spoke directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi about working with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF on drug enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061109\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Lurie said in a speech announcing Trump had changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s swift pivot, after weeks of threatening to send in the National Guard, comes amid a backdrop of increasing arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often directly outside San Francisco’s immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after Lurie’s press conference on Thursday, announcing that Trump had backed off, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, told reporters that one of his constituents had recently been arrested by ICE outside the city’s immigration courthouse.[aside postID=news_12061545 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“A man from Pakistan, which was the home country where my family is originally from, was detained at immigration court. These tactics create trauma and erode trust in the public institutions intended to serve and protect all residents,” Mahmood said. “[Trump] may be holding back for now, but whether it’s 100 agents or one, this is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the mayor’s dealings with the Trump administration come as a relief to many who worried troops on the ground in San Francisco would only inspire more fear and chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie deserves credit. There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. But the city also can’t interfere with these agencies operating in San Francisco, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on May 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city already partners with agencies like the FBI, DEA and ATF as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/hendricks-sf-fentanyl-sanctuary\">multi-agency crackdown on fentanyl dealing in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>. These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. Fentanyl is a scourge in our city, and we will work with anybody that will help us end the fentanyl crisis on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his address Thursday, Lurie stood flanked by the city’s public safety leaders, who supported the mayor’s calls for more cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies on drug issues. Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">posted to Truth Social, praising Lurie\u003c/a> for the city’s progress on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside City Hall, at a rally with labor unions, nurses echoed Fielder’s concerns. Many feared that immigrants with no connections to the drug trade could be targeted and racially profiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said increasing law enforcement to handle street-level drug challenges, including fentanyl dealing and overdoses, could have adverse public health effects.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']“It would just exacerbate the problem,” said Amy Erb, a registered ICU nurse in San Francisco and member of the California Nurses Association board of directors. “If we need any help from the feds, it’s to help give us health care, housing and education. Things that would support this community so that those who have been displaced won’t seek to escape with drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Lurie’s announcement that the National Guard was called off, Fielder and other supervisors on Thursday announced legislation to increase funding for legal aid and other services for the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor can’t have it both ways,” said Supervisor Shamann Walton, echoing Fielder’s concerns. “We have a moral obligation to not allow for federal troops or anyone to come in and attack our communities. We know that the leadership of this country right now at the federal level, most certainly, wants to attack our residents here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDaniel, the San Francisco State professor, said Lurie’s strategy with Trump is also enhanced by the fact that the mayor comes from a wealthy background and has strong business ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many leaders in our country who are not given that benefit of the doubt from Trump. People like our former mayor, London Breed, who also had some working relationships with Marc Benioff,” McDaniel said. He also warned that Trump’s good graces are often slippery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is known for turning on people with the slightest provocation,” he said, “or even lack thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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There’s no doubt that he initiated some of these conversations, and it seems like a deliberate strategy to enlist the support of people such as Marc Benioff, a rich businessman, that Trump might listen to,” said Jason McDaniel, a politics professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who formerly supported Democratic candidates, came under fire for praising Trump and supporting calls to send the National Guard to San Francisco. Lurie spoke directly with Benioff, who later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back his remarks and apologized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions this week over a potential National Guard deployment loomed, Lurie repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">affirmed the city’s sanctuary status\u003c/a>, meaning local police cannot aid federal immigration enforcement. 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These agencies also assist with immigration enforcement, have the power to arrest and can turn people over to ICE for potential deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city leaders want to see more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If drug dealers are undocumented immigrants and committing a crime in our city, they should be deported,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. attorney general’s office has cut back on street-level drug-dealing cases, Dorsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was disappointing … having a good, strong cooperative federal partnership could mean a big difference,” Dorsey said, applauding the mayor’s negotiation with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previous administrations have also brought in state resources like the California Highway Patrol to assist with drug trafficking. Last year, Lurie made combating outdoor drug use and dealing a key component of his mayoral campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asking for help from federal and state governments to bring more resources to bear is certainly something that I can see being a popular position and one that is consistent with the positions that Lurie has laid out,” McDaniel said of Lurie’s messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug arrests and citations have increased in San Francisco this year, according to city data, and the first-term mayor claimed that the support of federal law enforcement has been helpful in that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an ongoing partnership … to tackle fentanyl,” Lurie said when asked about concerns that increased law enforcement from other federal agencies could threaten immigrants. “We’ve made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do on this front. 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Trump also \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">posted to Truth Social, praising Lurie\u003c/a> for the city’s progress on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But outside City Hall, at a rally with labor unions, nurses echoed Fielder’s concerns. Many feared that immigrants with no connections to the drug trade could be targeted and racially profiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said increasing law enforcement to handle street-level drug challenges, including fentanyl dealing and overdoses, could have adverse public health effects.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco and state officials are gearing up for a legal battle against President Donald Trump if he follows through on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threats to deploy federal troops to the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, City Attorney David Chiu announced his office has joined efforts to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Chicago and said he’s prepared to go to court if troops arrive in San Francisco. Also on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta said they’re also prepared to “file a lawsuit immediately” should the guard show up in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bow to kings, and we’re standing up to this wannabe tyrant,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes just days after the president said he wants to send federal law enforcement to the city next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our local law enforcement have deep local experience and expertise that the military simply does not,” Chiu said in a statement. “Should President Trump make good on his ridiculous threats to send the military to San Francisco, our city is prepared, and my office is prepared to take the necessary legal action to defend San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the city attorney’s announcement, Supervisor Jackie Fielder asked Mayor Daniel Lurie — who has refrained from calling out Trump directly — about how the city is preparing to respond if the administration sends troops to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie answered the question at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, saying his office has convened a policy group representing different local law enforcement and other agencies to regularly monitor National Guard deployments in other cities, and discuss how to keep local residents safe if that extends to San Francisco. He said the group met on Tuesday, but did not go into detail about the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060040\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250609-LuriePresser-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250609-LuriePresser-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250609-LuriePresser-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250609-LuriePresser-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference with public safety leaders in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is not the role of local law enforcement to assist with military operations on our streets,” Lurie said. “I am fully committed to upholding those policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the president’s decisions to deploy federal troops to other Democratic cities and threats to do so in San Francisco, Lurie has repeatedly defended the city’s local law enforcement capabilities and pointed to the city’s declining crime rates and growing police force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State leaders have also rejected the idea that the guard is needed in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local officials do not want the National Guard in San Francisco, contrary to what President Trump actually believes,” Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said in a statement.[aside postID=news_12060755 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaAP.jpg']Gov. Gavin Newsom and Bonta held a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, calling on the Supreme Court to halt Trump’s military deployment in Chicago. Newsom and Bonta previously sued the Trump administration over sending troops to Los Angeles in June. That litigation is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Trump recently doubled down on his comments, saying he could invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to go to San Francisco,” Trump said in an interview on Sunday on Fox News. “The difference is I think they want us in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Fielder’s motion on Tuesday to ask the mayor about the city’s plans for responding to federal law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump’s] comments about our city should not be taken lightly,” Fielder said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s response to the board was built on a statement he released Monday, where — in a departure from his usual strategy of avoiding the topic — the mayor said issues such as outdoor drug dealing will not improve with military personnel on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardPortlandAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardPortlandAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardPortlandAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardPortlandAP-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester is arrested by police and federal officers outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply grateful to the members of our military for their service to our country, but the National Guard does not have the authority to arrest drug dealers — and sending them to San Francisco will do nothing to get fentanyl off the streets or make our city safer,” Lurie said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tensions escalate, Lurie has yet to mention Trump directly. Instead, on Monday, he said he welcomed “stronger coordination” with federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Attorney “to execute targeted operations, arrest drug dealers, and disrupt drug markets and multinational cartels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That response also raised questions from Fielder. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests have dramatically increased in San Francisco this year, leaving many immigrants and other residents worried about any increase in federal law enforcement that could intersect with immigration, transgender and LGBTQ issues, as well as homelessness and addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Mission, we have been bracing for this moment, the moment that people stop going to work, when anyone Black or Brown can’t freely walk outside without the fear of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and arresting them, the moment when parents stop sending kids to school, become too afraid to go to the grocery store or doctor,” Fielder, who represents the area, said Tuesday. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the likes of which we haven’t seen since COVID.”[aside postID=news_12060384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/ap20336794283031_custom-78b2f9039ebb1cd87ba3c4d3edf97a3854590c5a-1020x679.jpg']Meanwhile, community groups like Bay Resistance are also gearing up for the possibility of federal troops arriving in San Francisco, in the form of text alerts, pre-planned rallies on the first day of any deployment action and vigils in local neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard is not allowed to do the job of local law enforcement. San Francisco is also a sanctuary city, meaning local officials can not aid ICE officials, but the city also cannot interfere with ICE operations, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu on Wednesday echoed Lurie in pointing out that San Francisco has seen “historic drops in crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Needlessly and haphazardly deploying the military to American cities makes us all less safe,” Chiu said. “These deployments inflame tensions, undermine local law enforcement and harm local economies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s escalation of threats to bring troops to San Francisco arrived shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059728/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-sf-mayor-scrap-event-after-national-guard-comment\">Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff\u003c/a> praised the president and called for the National Guard in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials such as District Attorney Brooke Jenkins were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">quick to fire back at Benioff’s remarks\u003c/a>, which he shared with the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> just prior to his company’s major technology conference, called Dreamforce, in downtown San Francisco last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060384/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-walks-back-call-for-national-guard-to-san-francisco\">walked back and apologized for his remarks\u003c/a>, after multiple celebrities dropped out of the conference and venture capitalist Ron Conway resigned from the Salesforce philanthropic arm. Lurie said he also spoke to Benioff days before the apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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San Francisco sheriff’s officials said last month that they reopened two dormitories at one of the city’s jails to accommodate an 8% increase in inmates compared to the same time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Kunal Modi, San Francisco’s new chief of health, homelessness and family services, \u003ca href=\"http://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">wrote on X\u003c/a> that treatment capacity is one of the major challenges the city is facing as it rolls out a pilot program to improve conditions on Sixth Street in the South of Market neighborhood, one of the city’s most challenging areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What worked well: improved street conditions, cross-department collaboration, service placements and arrests,” Modi wrote. “What didn’t work as well: ran out of shelter/treatment bed capacity daily, struggled with journey home completions, displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a burgeoning debate in Sacramento about the best way to fund Proposition 36, which makes it easier for prosecutors to charge repeat drug users and alleged thieves with felonies while also offering the option of treatment.[aside postID=news_12012013 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241022-Prop36-07-BL_qed.jpg']The ballot measure is being \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article300956714.html\">implemented unevenly\u003c/a> in the state’s 58 counties, with some district attorneys filing dozens of felony cases in recent months while others have filed practically none at all. Still, at a recent hearing at the state Capitol, judicial officials told lawmakers that they expect tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/prop-36-funding-newsletter/\">new felony cases\u003c/a> this year — cases that will require not only jail beds or spots in treatment programs but also more court and probation resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason Democratic Orange County state Sen. Tom Umberg \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB38\">authored legislation\u003c/a> that would open up existing state grant funding to the drug courts and probation programs envisioned under Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I know is that this must get funded. It’s something passed overwhelmingly by voters,” Umberg said, adding that the grant money is only “one part of the puzzle,” and lawmakers and Gov. 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Now, with more people facing felonies under Proposition 36, the savings are expected to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Matthews, communications director for Californians for Safety and Justice, the nonprofit that wrote Proposition 47, said the funding battle highlights the central tension in the debate: People want less drug use and theft and for offenders to be held accountable, but the more the state spends on incarceration, the less money is available for treatment and rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lays bare the truth, which is that the only way we are going to free up the necessary resources for treat-and-prevention infrastructure that this state has needed for generations is by reducing the size and scope of the prison system, by reducing the number of people flowing into the system,” he said. “We know what works, and we know what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with Proposition 36, voters threw their support behind letting prosecutors lock more people up if they refuse to get help. 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He also saw about 20 people loaded onto a Sheriff’s Department bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since law enforcement began to focus more on specific neighborhoods like SoMa, some supervisors and residents have raised concerns that the enforcement has only displaced people living on the street and outdoor drug markets to other areas, including Jefferson Square Park and the 16th Street-Mission BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the Jefferson Square raid, Luke said he saw people back at the park using and dealing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they are aware that their targeted enforcement has dispersed drug-related street issues to new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029054\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks through Jefferson Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ll go into a community because of the rampant drug use or sales. And we put pressure on those dealers. When that pressure becomes intense enough, we often see those groups will go to the next block or the next neighborhood,” Scott said. “A lot of the people [who] started to hang out in Jefferson Square Park, who were selling and doing drugs, were a result of pressure from other neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and SoMa, and it just became untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and SFPD recently opened up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">a new police command center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street for officers to drop off people they arrest or detain on the street, with the goal of making a more convenient, quicker handoff to Sheriff’s Department custody. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke, who is also a contributor to the local website Beyond Chron, witnessed and photographed the overnight raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got there, I saw police going through the park … they rounded everyone up on the Eddy [Street] side of the park and pushed people dealing and using drugs in front of the Sacred Heart practice field to the other side of the park,” Luke told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke said he saw deputies knock on parked cars and ask the people inside to step out; at least one of them was arrested, he said. He also saw about 20 people loaded onto a Sheriff’s Department bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since law enforcement began to focus more on specific neighborhoods like SoMa, some supervisors and residents have raised concerns that the enforcement has only displaced people living on the street and outdoor drug markets to other areas, including Jefferson Square Park and the 16th Street-Mission BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the Jefferson Square raid, Luke said he saw people back at the park using and dealing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they are aware that their targeted enforcement has dispersed drug-related street issues to new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029054\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-SFParkArrests-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks through Jefferson Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ll go into a community because of the rampant drug use or sales. And we put pressure on those dealers. When that pressure becomes intense enough, we often see those groups will go to the next block or the next neighborhood,” Scott said. “A lot of the people [who] started to hang out in Jefferson Square Park, who were selling and doing drugs, were a result of pressure from other neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and SoMa, and it just became untenable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and SFPD recently opened up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">a new police command center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street for officers to drop off people they arrest or detain on the street, with the goal of making a more convenient, quicker handoff to Sheriff’s Department custody. Residents in the area told KQED that there’s been a noticeable difference in the neighborhood, including more street cleaning and increased arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center also provides a walk-in space where people can get coffee, use a toilet or sign up for a variety of government and social services. Police have not yet started to use the space for processing arrests, Scott told reporters on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">Elize Manoukian\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new “triage center” in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood opened in early February. It’s one of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first tangible initiatives to address the city’s fentanyl crisis as he embarks on his first year in office. A second center is also planned in the Tenderloin. KQED’s Sydney Johnson visited the new center and tells us what she saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2045630332&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:58] Tell me about where you went recently in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] Yeah, I recently spent some time over on 6th Street between Jesse and Stevenson. This part of South of Market has become known as a sort of hotspot for outdoor drug use and drug dealing in particular. It’s also the site of the city’s latest experiment for addressing the fentanyl crisis. In an alleyway just right off of 6th and Jesse, actually in a fenced off corner of an old Nordstrom parking lot, there’s recently been erected this new, what the city has called a triage center. There’s a gate just facing 6th Street. And when you walk in, you see about half a dozen white easy up tents, sort of the tents that you see at like a farmer’s market with picnic tables underneath. The days that I went, there were a couple different service providers there, groups like Code Tenderloin, the Department of Public Health had some people there, and really just some folks that were trying to offer connections to basic city services. Most prominently, there was a station that they were handing out hot coffee and snacks and water and directing people to a bathroom that they could use if they needed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] So tell me then who you spoke with when you were there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:30] I spoke to several people coming and going from this triage center. I spoke to one couple who went in, they were currently living in their car in the neighborhood. They were looking for a place to stay that night, but when they left, they said that they still didn’t know where they’d be sleeping and were planning on staying in their car again. and then I spoke with Alex Crafton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] I just try to avoid 6th Street lately, like with how crazy it’s been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:56] He’s 26 years old. He used to live in a single room occupancy hotel just next door to where the site is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] I just came down here last night and I noticed that was set up. I was like, what the hell is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] He was able to get a cup of coffee and, you know, saw a couple different services that he was already familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] You know, just pointing you in the right direction because a lot of these people out here are clueless on where to go. I pretty much knew all those things and I’m all good. I just wanted a cup of coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] So he ended up leaving and didn’t find exactly what he was looking for. But he did feel like that would be potentially helpful to folks who maybe don’t know about those services. He also heard that this place was ultimately going to become a police command center, and he was kind of confused and curious about what that was. So he stopped by to check it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] The cops have been cracking down more lately, but it’s a lawless city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:52] Police are cracking down on outdoor drug use and outdoor drug dealing. In fact, Alex told me that just a few weeks ago, he was arrested at this same corner at Six and Jesse for drug possession, and he was released within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] Tell me a bit more about how this center got set up. How did it come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] This center opened up just around the same time that Mayor Lurie signed his first major piece of legislation into law that he has sponsored as mayor. So this was an ordinance that gave him expanded powers and specifically it allowed him to speed up hiring and contracting for work by removing the need for certain approvals by the Board of Supervisors and some of this other red tape. specifically for services and programs related to homelessness and fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:04:50] The opportunity before us is to create real options for people, because right now they’re not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:57] Laurie was recently on Forum and talked about the Triage Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] We are going to demand that people move from the street and into that place where they can get a cup of coffee, they can be seen by somebody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Right now, the city does not have nearly enough emergency shelter beds to address the need. So Lurie’s hoping that this legislation will allow him to bring in private funding, cut through bureaucracy, and speed up the city’s response to fentanyl and homelessness. And this triage center is kind of one component of that vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:35] Let’s talk a little more about this specific site. Can you get connected to drug treatment, housing, shelter? Like what specifically is available to people who need help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] So on the days that I went, there were social workers that were offering help getting signed up for benefits like food stamps, signing up for government IDs. People could get added to waitlists for shelter, and that was what several people told me they were walking in to find out about. The same goes for housing, obviously. There are opportunities to sign up for housing, but in the city, there are enormous waitlists for supportive housing. For folks who are interested in treatment, the Department of Public Health is also sending staff members to this site. And people can get connected to medications pretty quickly, like buprenorphine, which actually helps reduce cravings around fentanyl and opioids. And that has been actually a big type of treatment that the city has been leaning on, as residential treatment is often very expensive. It’s hard to build up. This site is also intended to help the police. Like a stated goal of this site was to create a more convenient location where police can hand over the people that they arrest or detain for things like public drug use and hand them off to sheriff’s deputies who could then transport them to jail. Idea behind that is to allow police to more quickly get back on the street rather than having to drive halfway across town and then hand people off to sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] So it’s a walk -in pop -up space for services potentially, but also a drop -off place for police? Is this happening in the same space?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] That’s a great question. So the first couple of weeks, there was no visible sign of any of the police detainment, you know, part of this plan and vision happening on site. And actually, when I spoke to the mayor’s office recently, I asked for a timeline, you know, when are we going to see this part of the site materialize? You know, It’s a stated goal of it. And both the mayor’s office and the police department said that they don’t have a date yet for when they might start that part of the operation. And in fact, the mayor’s office told me that the police have not actually used this site at all for any detainment so far. And you’re dealing with a lot of people who have experience with the justice system and may be turned off if they see police processing arrests or police in general behind those gates. So, it is really I think, frankly, confusing for a lot of people of who this is intended to serve and what the impacts of kind of combining those ideas might look like on the ground. Really the kind of stated goal around this as being this police command center is still something that’s very much in the works and opaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] It seems like there are some things available here, some not, that the law enforcement part of this is a little confusing, but how new is this approach, this sort of pop -up triage center?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] That is not a new idea. I think back to during the pandemic, actually, Mayor London Breed had an emergency declaration for the Tenderloin. And as part of her initiative, the city erected the Tenderloin Center. And this was a pop -up, you know, there were tents outside, they actually had some indoor space where people could meet with counselors, similarly get signed up for benefits and social services. The real big difference between these two sites is that the Tenderloin Center had supervised drug consumption on site where people could smoke or inject drugs with the supervision of medical professionals around who could reverse an overdose if it took place. I think it’s important to point out that there were no overdose deaths that took place at the Tenderloin Center all 10 months it was open, and they reversed over 300 overdoses. But this new triage center and the one that Laurie is supposedly planning to open this spring will not have any drug use allowed on site, and in fact is inviting police to come inside and potentially detain people who were using drugs on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:17] Seems like there’s some of the same services on offer, but that the big difference is, as you said, no supervised drug consumption, but an even more, quote unquote, police friendly, to use Lurie’s words, approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] There’s other differences, too. The Tenderloin Center was smack dab in the middle of UN Plaza. It was during the pandemic when there were a lot of other challenges going on. It received a lot of focus and negative attention by press and by people online. And it was just very visible. I mean, it had averaged hundreds of visitors a day by the time it closed. And that led to long lines outside. And there were businesses and neighbors that complained about that. This new site, I think is fair to say, is much more discreet. It’s got similar goals, but very different approaches of handling that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] I know Alex Crafton, one of the people you spoke with at this current triage center actually also went to the Tenderloin Center back when it was open, right? I mean, we’ve been talking about the differences. What was his experience of that? Does he have thoughts on similarities, differences between the two?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] Yeah, it was fascinating getting to talk to Alex and hearing his perspective of visiting both sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What was really great about that program as well though is that of all the many overdoses they encountered there, not a single life was lost. It saved lives. That’s all anyone needs to know about it. It saved lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:54] You know, Alex told me that he has participated in rehab programs almost a dozen times. And he said that he hasn’t completed those programs each time, but that he has several times. And he did really appreciate that the Tenderloin Center offered a place where if people were really struggling, they could go and know that they would be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] I know it’s a little early, but are there any critics of this triage center and Daniel Lurie’s overall approach to the issue of drug addiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:28] You know, I think there’s still a lot of questions about this triage center. Like, it’s definitely sort of building the plane as it flies, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vitka Eisen \u003c/strong>[00:12:37] Because it doesn’t fit the narrative, it’s not the solution that people want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] I spoke with Vitka Eisen, who’s the CEO of Healthright 360. This is one of the city’s largest drug treatment providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vitka Eisen \u003c/strong>[00:12:48] I don’t think the solution comes from law enforcement. I look to do things that improve health for people, increase engagement, connect people to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] She and others have pointed to research that can show that actually sending people to jail when they are struggling with addiction can sometimes lead to increased risk of overdose because you have a tolerance drop. And if people go back and use again, that can actually really increase their likelihood of a fatal overdose. I spoke with some people who just live in the neighborhood on Sixth Street. One man named Byron who lives about a block away from the triage center told me that actually he did feel like the street and the area had looked a little bit nicer lately. He said, yeah, the streets have been a little bit calmer, but he’s really skeptical. He said that at night, a lot of the dangerous activity that was going on during the day previously picks back up again. The triage center is intended to be staffed and opened 24/7 but they are not nearly close enough to offering that yet. And in fact, it was closed all of President’s Day weekend, just about a week after opening because they didn’t have enough staff. So, you know, some of these goals that they’re reaching for with this site are still pretty far off. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new “triage center” in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood opened in early February. It’s one of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s first tangible initiatives to address the city’s fentanyl crisis as he embarks on his first year in office. A second center is also planned in the Tenderloin. KQED’s Sydney Johnson visited the new center and tells us what she saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2045630332&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:58] Tell me about where you went recently in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] Yeah, I recently spent some time over on 6th Street between Jesse and Stevenson. This part of South of Market has become known as a sort of hotspot for outdoor drug use and drug dealing in particular. It’s also the site of the city’s latest experiment for addressing the fentanyl crisis. In an alleyway just right off of 6th and Jesse, actually in a fenced off corner of an old Nordstrom parking lot, there’s recently been erected this new, what the city has called a triage center. There’s a gate just facing 6th Street. And when you walk in, you see about half a dozen white easy up tents, sort of the tents that you see at like a farmer’s market with picnic tables underneath. The days that I went, there were a couple different service providers there, groups like Code Tenderloin, the Department of Public Health had some people there, and really just some folks that were trying to offer connections to basic city services. Most prominently, there was a station that they were handing out hot coffee and snacks and water and directing people to a bathroom that they could use if they needed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] So tell me then who you spoke with when you were there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:30] I spoke to several people coming and going from this triage center. I spoke to one couple who went in, they were currently living in their car in the neighborhood. They were looking for a place to stay that night, but when they left, they said that they still didn’t know where they’d be sleeping and were planning on staying in their car again. and then I spoke with Alex Crafton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] I just try to avoid 6th Street lately, like with how crazy it’s been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:56] He’s 26 years old. He used to live in a single room occupancy hotel just next door to where the site is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] I just came down here last night and I noticed that was set up. I was like, what the hell is this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] He was able to get a cup of coffee and, you know, saw a couple different services that he was already familiar with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] You know, just pointing you in the right direction because a lot of these people out here are clueless on where to go. I pretty much knew all those things and I’m all good. I just wanted a cup of coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:25] So he ended up leaving and didn’t find exactly what he was looking for. But he did feel like that would be potentially helpful to folks who maybe don’t know about those services. He also heard that this place was ultimately going to become a police command center, and he was kind of confused and curious about what that was. So he stopped by to check it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:03:44] The cops have been cracking down more lately, but it’s a lawless city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:52] Police are cracking down on outdoor drug use and outdoor drug dealing. In fact, Alex told me that just a few weeks ago, he was arrested at this same corner at Six and Jesse for drug possession, and he was released within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:11] Tell me a bit more about how this center got set up. How did it come about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] This center opened up just around the same time that Mayor Lurie signed his first major piece of legislation into law that he has sponsored as mayor. So this was an ordinance that gave him expanded powers and specifically it allowed him to speed up hiring and contracting for work by removing the need for certain approvals by the Board of Supervisors and some of this other red tape. specifically for services and programs related to homelessness and fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:04:50] The opportunity before us is to create real options for people, because right now they’re not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:57] Laurie was recently on Forum and talked about the Triage Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor Daniel Lurie \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] We are going to demand that people move from the street and into that place where they can get a cup of coffee, they can be seen by somebody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Right now, the city does not have nearly enough emergency shelter beds to address the need. So Lurie’s hoping that this legislation will allow him to bring in private funding, cut through bureaucracy, and speed up the city’s response to fentanyl and homelessness. And this triage center is kind of one component of that vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:35] Let’s talk a little more about this specific site. Can you get connected to drug treatment, housing, shelter? Like what specifically is available to people who need help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:48] So on the days that I went, there were social workers that were offering help getting signed up for benefits like food stamps, signing up for government IDs. People could get added to waitlists for shelter, and that was what several people told me they were walking in to find out about. The same goes for housing, obviously. There are opportunities to sign up for housing, but in the city, there are enormous waitlists for supportive housing. For folks who are interested in treatment, the Department of Public Health is also sending staff members to this site. And people can get connected to medications pretty quickly, like buprenorphine, which actually helps reduce cravings around fentanyl and opioids. And that has been actually a big type of treatment that the city has been leaning on, as residential treatment is often very expensive. It’s hard to build up. This site is also intended to help the police. Like a stated goal of this site was to create a more convenient location where police can hand over the people that they arrest or detain for things like public drug use and hand them off to sheriff’s deputies who could then transport them to jail. Idea behind that is to allow police to more quickly get back on the street rather than having to drive halfway across town and then hand people off to sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:16] So it’s a walk -in pop -up space for services potentially, but also a drop -off place for police? Is this happening in the same space?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:28] That’s a great question. So the first couple of weeks, there was no visible sign of any of the police detainment, you know, part of this plan and vision happening on site. And actually, when I spoke to the mayor’s office recently, I asked for a timeline, you know, when are we going to see this part of the site materialize? You know, It’s a stated goal of it. And both the mayor’s office and the police department said that they don’t have a date yet for when they might start that part of the operation. And in fact, the mayor’s office told me that the police have not actually used this site at all for any detainment so far. And you’re dealing with a lot of people who have experience with the justice system and may be turned off if they see police processing arrests or police in general behind those gates. So, it is really I think, frankly, confusing for a lot of people of who this is intended to serve and what the impacts of kind of combining those ideas might look like on the ground. Really the kind of stated goal around this as being this police command center is still something that’s very much in the works and opaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] It seems like there are some things available here, some not, that the law enforcement part of this is a little confusing, but how new is this approach, this sort of pop -up triage center?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] That is not a new idea. I think back to during the pandemic, actually, Mayor London Breed had an emergency declaration for the Tenderloin. And as part of her initiative, the city erected the Tenderloin Center. And this was a pop -up, you know, there were tents outside, they actually had some indoor space where people could meet with counselors, similarly get signed up for benefits and social services. The real big difference between these two sites is that the Tenderloin Center had supervised drug consumption on site where people could smoke or inject drugs with the supervision of medical professionals around who could reverse an overdose if it took place. I think it’s important to point out that there were no overdose deaths that took place at the Tenderloin Center all 10 months it was open, and they reversed over 300 overdoses. But this new triage center and the one that Laurie is supposedly planning to open this spring will not have any drug use allowed on site, and in fact is inviting police to come inside and potentially detain people who were using drugs on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:10:17] Seems like there’s some of the same services on offer, but that the big difference is, as you said, no supervised drug consumption, but an even more, quote unquote, police friendly, to use Lurie’s words, approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] There’s other differences, too. The Tenderloin Center was smack dab in the middle of UN Plaza. It was during the pandemic when there were a lot of other challenges going on. It received a lot of focus and negative attention by press and by people online. And it was just very visible. I mean, it had averaged hundreds of visitors a day by the time it closed. And that led to long lines outside. And there were businesses and neighbors that complained about that. This new site, I think is fair to say, is much more discreet. It’s got similar goals, but very different approaches of handling that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] I know Alex Crafton, one of the people you spoke with at this current triage center actually also went to the Tenderloin Center back when it was open, right? I mean, we’ve been talking about the differences. What was his experience of that? Does he have thoughts on similarities, differences between the two?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] Yeah, it was fascinating getting to talk to Alex and hearing his perspective of visiting both sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Crafton \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What was really great about that program as well though is that of all the many overdoses they encountered there, not a single life was lost. It saved lives. That’s all anyone needs to know about it. It saved lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:54] You know, Alex told me that he has participated in rehab programs almost a dozen times. And he said that he hasn’t completed those programs each time, but that he has several times. And he did really appreciate that the Tenderloin Center offered a place where if people were really struggling, they could go and know that they would be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] I know it’s a little early, but are there any critics of this triage center and Daniel Lurie’s overall approach to the issue of drug addiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:28] You know, I think there’s still a lot of questions about this triage center. Like, it’s definitely sort of building the plane as it flies, so to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vitka Eisen \u003c/strong>[00:12:37] Because it doesn’t fit the narrative, it’s not the solution that people want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] I spoke with Vitka Eisen, who’s the CEO of Healthright 360. This is one of the city’s largest drug treatment providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vitka Eisen \u003c/strong>[00:12:48] I don’t think the solution comes from law enforcement. I look to do things that improve health for people, increase engagement, connect people to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:59] She and others have pointed to research that can show that actually sending people to jail when they are struggling with addiction can sometimes lead to increased risk of overdose because you have a tolerance drop. And if people go back and use again, that can actually really increase their likelihood of a fatal overdose. I spoke with some people who just live in the neighborhood on Sixth Street. One man named Byron who lives about a block away from the triage center told me that actually he did feel like the street and the area had looked a little bit nicer lately. He said, yeah, the streets have been a little bit calmer, but he’s really skeptical. He said that at night, a lot of the dangerous activity that was going on during the day previously picks back up again. The triage center is intended to be staffed and opened 24/7 but they are not nearly close enough to offering that yet. And in fact, it was closed all of President’s Day weekend, just about a week after opening because they didn’t have enough staff. So, you know, some of these goals that they’re reaching for with this site are still pretty far off. And people like Byron are wondering, you know, what this is going to actually look like in three, six months from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:23] How will we know whether this triage center, other ones like it, and really the Lurie administration’s whole approach to these big problems that he was elected to solve, how will we know whether these are working or not, whether they are a success?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:41] Well, the mayor’s office said that after 30 days, they’re going to review some of the outcomes of this site and determine next steps. We’re already almost halfway there. Some of those metrics are a little bit more nebulous, things like just general street cleanliness and feelings of safety. And then they’re also gonna be looking at connections to services and how just how much the site is actually being used by law enforcement and by people in the community in general. And then Lurie has already announced that he’s planning to open up a second site like this in the Tenderloin in the spring. Lurie inherited a slight decrease when it comes to overdose deaths in San Francisco. But that doesn’t mean that we are out of this issue or even close. In fact, just the latest monthly report on overdose deaths in San Francisco showed a tiny uptick in just the month to month. So there’s still plenty to do.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors hope to use Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">expansion of executive powers\u003c/a> in a new push to combat drug dealing — one that would bring an outside expert’s approach despite a looming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$840 million budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Matt Dorsey will propose a new framework for law enforcement to shut down outdoor drug markets. The proposal comes as Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">vowed to reduce drug dealing\u003c/a> on city streets with increased police enforcement, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">opening new command centers\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin and South of Market, despite concern from some addiction experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal draws from work by David Kennedy, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The supervisors are also calling on the mayor to hire Kennedy to help devise a plan to keep drug sales off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a market closes down on one block, you have to make sure it stays closed,” said Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, a neighborhood long plagued by drug dealing on sidewalks and other public spaces. “We have to develop a new solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework aims to improve interdepartmental communication started by former Mayor London Breed under the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, which includes the city’s police department, public health department, emergency management and other agencies. Kennedy’s approach also emphasizes deterrence, including deploying more community ambassadors for nighttime patrols and expanding job training to prevent people from entering or returning to the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dorsey, who oversees the SoMa neighborhood, first attempted to introduce Kennedy’s plan in 2023 after he joined the board, it gained little traction. However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. His approach has been \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2024/07/01/philadelphia-kensington-drug-market-shutdown/\">adapted in multiple cities\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-12-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors hope to use Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">expansion of executive powers\u003c/a> in a new push to combat drug dealing — one that would bring an outside expert’s approach despite a looming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$840 million budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Matt Dorsey will propose a new framework for law enforcement to shut down outdoor drug markets. The proposal comes as Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">vowed to reduce drug dealing\u003c/a> on city streets with increased police enforcement, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">opening new command centers\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin and South of Market, despite concern from some addiction experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal draws from work by David Kennedy, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The supervisors are also calling on the mayor to hire Kennedy to help devise a plan to keep drug sales off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a market closes down on one block, you have to make sure it stays closed,” said Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, a neighborhood long plagued by drug dealing on sidewalks and other public spaces. “We have to develop a new solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework aims to improve interdepartmental communication started by former Mayor London Breed under the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, which includes the city’s police department, public health department, emergency management and other agencies. Kennedy’s approach also emphasizes deterrence, including deploying more community ambassadors for nighttime patrols and expanding job training to prevent people from entering or returning to the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dorsey, who oversees the SoMa neighborhood, first attempted to introduce Kennedy’s plan in 2023 after he joined the board, it gained little traction. However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. His approach has been \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2024/07/01/philadelphia-kensington-drug-market-shutdown/\">adapted in multiple cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance gives us the tools to treat this crisis with the urgency it demands. And with our partners on the board, that’s exactly what we will do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s ordinance arrived after receiving a unanimous vote of support last week from the Budget and Finance Committee. Supervisor Shamann Walton was the only no-vote at Tuesday’s meeting, and the District 10 representative had previously criticized the idea for lacking a substantial plan for how loosening government checks and balances will directly support the city’s overdose and homelessness crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some legislative watchdogs have raised concerns about Lurie’s approach, pointing to past examples of corruption in City Hall, including wrongfully awarding contracts, bribery and other misspending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie and his family cheer after his signing of the oath to office inside City Hall, during his Inauguration Day, in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, after a major public scandal involving the city’s Public Works department, San Francisco voters passed a law to make it harder for city officials to solicit donations to limit financial misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who voted yes on the ordinance, expressed similar desires as Walton for a more thorough plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am putting a great deal of faith in Mayor Lurie’s Administration to utilize these extraordinary powers to carry out the will of the voters, and provide housing, shelter, and treatment to our most vulnerable, and to do so without repeating the corrupt practices that have tainted the public’s trust in city government for years,” Fielder said in a statement. “I also eagerly await comprehensive details about the Mayor’s plans to stand up and staff the hundreds of treatment beds that the City needs to make lasting progress on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance will return to the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 11 for a second and final reading. 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It will streamline the city’s ability to quickly address homelessness, addiction, mental health and public safety,” Mahmood said at Tuesday’s meeting. “Our departments will be able to move faster and establish shelter beds, expand services, and provide critical resources. These are the tool kits we need to get the job done. And now the hard work begins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s ordinance arrived after receiving a unanimous vote of support last week from the Budget and Finance Committee. Supervisor Shamann Walton was the only no-vote at Tuesday’s meeting, and the District 10 representative had previously criticized the idea for lacking a substantial plan for how loosening government checks and balances will directly support the city’s overdose and homelessness crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some legislative watchdogs have raised concerns about Lurie’s approach, pointing to past examples of corruption in City Hall, including wrongfully awarding contracts, bribery and other misspending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInauguration_GC-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie and his family cheer after his signing of the oath to office inside City Hall, during his Inauguration Day, in San Francisco on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, after a major public scandal involving the city’s Public Works department, San Francisco voters passed a law to make it harder for city officials to solicit donations to limit financial misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who voted yes on the ordinance, expressed similar desires as Walton for a more thorough plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am putting a great deal of faith in Mayor Lurie’s Administration to utilize these extraordinary powers to carry out the will of the voters, and provide housing, shelter, and treatment to our most vulnerable, and to do so without repeating the corrupt practices that have tainted the public’s trust in city government for years,” Fielder said in a statement. “I also eagerly await comprehensive details about the Mayor’s plans to stand up and staff the hundreds of treatment beds that the City needs to make lasting progress on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance will return to the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 11 for a second and final reading. If it passes, it will head to Lurie’s desk for a signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several supervisors expressed support for the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy to support the result — a package of sensible reforms to streamline the City’s response to the crisis on our streets that also preserves an oversight role for the Board,” board President Rafael Mandelman, who co-sponsored the legislation, said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Mayor Lurie and his team to advance policies that will support recovery in San Francisco and reclaim our public spaces for use by all members of the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, where the majority of overdose deaths have taken place in recent years, also co-sponsored the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This initiative helps the city get out of its own way to deliver lifesaving resources to those of our neighbors who need it most. It will streamline the city’s ability to quickly address homelessness, addiction, mental health and public safety,” Mahmood said at Tuesday’s meeting. “Our departments will be able to move faster and establish shelter beds, expand services, and provide critical resources. These are the tool kits we need to get the job done. And now the hard work begins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It would give the mayor’s office and certain city departments permission to sidestep the Board of Supervisors’ approval on some city contracts and allow for soliciting private donations to support efforts to combat the fentanyl epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s legislative analyst warned that the changes would come with “significant risks,” but Lurie, supervisors and members of the recovery community said the ordinance is necessary as the city faces an unprecedented drug and homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in San Francisco are suffering,” Lurie said during a rally ahead of the committee hearing. “Every day that we don’t act is another day of life lost to addiction, to overdose and to despair. Our response must be just as urgent as the crisis that we are facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, Lurie’s proposed policy changes would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">allow his office to bypass\u003c/a> the competitive contract bidding process as well as board approval for new contracts related to certain “core initiatives,” including homelessness, drug overdose and abuse, mental health, and public safety hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance could speed up permitting to build about 1,500 new shelter beds, which Lurie promised to deliver within his first six months in office, and a new 24-hour drop-off center on Geary Street where police officers would be able to take people in distress who don’t need to go to the emergency room or be taken to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFOverdoseDeathDecline-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A harm reduction program representative speaks with people on a popular alleyway in the Tenderloin neighborhood to hand out Narcan, fentanyl detection packets and tinfoil to those who need them as a part of drug addiction outreach in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie has expressed that he first wants to extend the nighttime hours of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989112/can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis\">Drug Market Agency Coordination Center\u003c/a>, which streamlines efforts by local law enforcement and other city departments to shut down open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. Lurie has tasked Police Chief Bill Scott with creating a permanent budget for the operation and expanding it to the Sixth Street corridor, which has been a center of the city’s open drug use in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative analyst’s office said that the policy changes aimed at efficiency would have trade-offs — including the potential to increase costs by eliminating competitive contract bidding and infringing on the Board of Supervisors’ legislative authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed changes would result in an extraordinary diminishment of Board of Supervisors Authority,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It recommended lowering the maximum cost of contracts eligible for expedited approval, removing the competitive solicitations waiver, requesting more information about Lurie’s plan to solicit donations from private groups and limiting the scope of services eligible for streamlined contracting, “such as just for opioid treatment or shelter services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee approved some amendments, including lowering the dollar amount of contracts that can be entered into or amended without the Board of Supervisors’ approval from $50 million to $25 million and capping private donations at $10 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the supervisors on the committee seemed prepared to sacrifice some oversight in the “unprecedented times” of the fentanyl crisis and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I was trying to figure out how to react to this legislation because so much of it is to suspend a significant portion of the legislative process, which is really the function of the legislative branch,” Supervisor Connie Chan, who heads the budget committee, said during the hearing. “And yet, with the recognition of how difficult [of a] situation that we’re in, [there are] things that a brand new administration must do to tackle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee members unanimously agreed to forward the package to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving up a lot in terms of oversights, not just from the board to the executive branch, but I think, generally speaking, really from the public process,” Chan said. “I would assume that Mayor Lurie and [his budget team] clearly understand that and will … continue to make sure that you have community outreach and public noticing for the things that you’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance is scheduled to go before the full board next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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During his inaugural address on Wednesday, the mayor told the sun-kissed masses he is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">introducing what he’s called “Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinances”\u003c/a> — not exactly an emergency proclamation, but a legislative move that he’ll need supervisors to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will allow us to further surge resources and bypass the bureaucratic hurdles standing in the way of tackling this crisis,” Lurie said. Hinting at the clearance, he still needs to move forward on his idea, Lurie added: “I look forward to working with the incoming Board of Supervisors for their quick approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s “Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinances” should not be confused with an official state of emergency, a specific legal action that can allow mayors to bypass regulations and bureaucracy in response to a disaster. 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He said he’s optimistic about the plan, which was still sparse on details as of Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives us the same powers we had during COVID to work with urgency to spin up new command centers and shelters and give us the personnel we need to shut down open-air drug markets,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If supervisors pass his legislative package, Lurie wants to first expand evening hours for the city’s Drug Market Agency Coordination Center — which targets outdoor drug users, drug dealers and illegal street vending — and asked the police chief to come up with a budget to make the effort permanent. He also wants to create a “Hospitality Zone Task Force,” essentially a police unit for the city’s tourist areas, including Union Square, Market Street and Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also wants to open up an additional 24/7 drop-off center for people experiencing a behavioral health crisis. 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But Lurie’s first major ask to his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors would essentially give supervisors less authority to block or approve contracts that departments will need to make in order to, for example, expand shelters and staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A policy memo provided by the mayor’s office said the mayor would propose to “speed procurement processes by waiving code procurement rules for executing contracts and grants” and authorize the use of private funding in the form of behested payments, which are essentially donations. The city administrator and controller will also be tasked with reviewing and auditing the ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020848 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDay_GC_00196-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are good reasons we have processes in place to avoid conflicts of interest and ethical problems. But with something this high profile, I have confidence in the fourth estate and city government that we can get this right,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, whose district includes the South of Market neighborhood. “Fentanyl is a moral emergency and personal to me as someone with experience recovering from drug addiction. 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He said he’s optimistic about the plan, which was still sparse on details as of Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives us the same powers we had during COVID to work with urgency to spin up new command centers and shelters and give us the personnel we need to shut down open-air drug markets,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If supervisors pass his legislative package, Lurie wants to first expand evening hours for the city’s Drug Market Agency Coordination Center — which targets outdoor drug users, drug dealers and illegal street vending — and asked the police chief to come up with a budget to make the effort permanent. He also wants to create a “Hospitality Zone Task Force,” essentially a police unit for the city’s tourist areas, including Union Square, Market Street and Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also wants to open up an additional 24/7 drop-off center for people experiencing a behavioral health crisis. In his speech last week, Lurie said the center would be “police-friendly” while serving as an alternative to overnight stays in jail or the city’s emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco already has several street intervention teams that respond to overdoses and other crises that police may be less equipped to handle. But the mayor also said he wants to streamline those initiatives — which could mean cuts or reorganization ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We currently have at least nine street teams operated by five different departments. 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