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The majority of fentanyl users in San Francisco and across California consume fentanyl by smoking, which is far less likely to lead to an overdose than injecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study found that fentanyl injection users were 40% more likely to experience a non-fatal overdose and 253% more likely to have bacterial or viral infections caused by needle use. While both methods can lead to an accidental overdose, addiction experts say that the shift to smoking fentanyl has likely kept overdose rates from being even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir Andreyev, who used heroin for several years before turning to smoking fentanyl, has lived on San Francisco’s streets for more than a decade. Craving shelter after a rainy weekend, Andreyev recently stopped by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">pop-up triage center\u003c/a> on Sixth Street because he heard he might be able to find a shelter bed.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The only good thing about fentanyl was it helped me get off needles. The needle… that’s really depressing,” Andreyev, 42, told KQED while waiting for a ride to a shelter that a social worker at the center found for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said new fentanyl users tend to smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoking supplies, in particular, engage communities that are not already engaged in needle exchange programs,” she said. “So that directive goes contrary to all evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration is doubling down on law enforcement to disrupt outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actively dismantling the illegal drug markets as part of our ongoing commitment to public safety. San Franciscans deserve safe and clean streets,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1902799634722087069\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a> on Thursday, after police arrested nearly 40 people for being near an outdoor drug market at Market and Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the third overnight raid the city has carried out in recent weeks. Police surveillance has also increased on Sixth Street and near the 16th Street BART station. Some residents and officials have applauded the crackdown for at least temporarily clearing chaotic public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you drive by there now, things are definitely better,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill said at a recent press conference, referring to an overnight drug market raid that led to dozens of arrests at Jefferson Square Park. “Residents are rightfully hesitant to declare victory, and I don’t think anybody here is ready to declare victory at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police and supervisors have said that the actions have pushed dangerous activity to other areas, and they are developing longer-term deterrence strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreyev, who sleeps outside near Sixth Street, has noticed the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cleaned up a lot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:34 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you drive in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, now might be a good time to slow your roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the city’s 33 new speed cameras began operating at the stroke of midnight on Thursday amid efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">reduce traffic fatalities\u003c/a> following a particularly deadly year for the city’s pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Installed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028444/sf-struggling-reduce-traffic-deaths-slow-streets-could-be-answer\">high-injury corridors \u003c/a>where speeding is common, the cameras will automatically snap photos of the rear license plates of motorists traveling 11 mph or more over the posted speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next 60 days, speeding drivers in the camera zones will receive no-fee warning notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cameras will immediately begin issuing warnings to educate drivers on the importance of lower speeds,” Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco speed camera locations\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Ri5ud\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Ri5ud/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"637\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to start issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">real citations\u003c/a> in late May, with penalties ranging from $50 for drivers caught going 11 to 15 mph over the posted speed limit and going as high as $500 for the rare 100 mph instance. Tickets will be processed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california\">Verra Mobility\u003c/a>, the contractor the city hired to install and maintain the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 21 cameras will be activated on a rolling basis over the coming weeks, according to the SFMTA, which is overseeing the program and intends to update \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/speed-safety-cameras\">its website\u003c/a> daily to show which camera locations are live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is the first city in California to install automated speed-enforcement cameras, long an aspiration of street safety advocates frustrated by the city’s lack of progress in reaching its long-term goal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">eliminating traffic deaths\u003c/a> and serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big moment for all of us who’ve been pushing for this technology to be allowed in San Francisco,” said Marta Lindsey, a spokesperson with Walk San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The activation of the cameras comes more than a year and a half after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">AB 645\u003c/a> authorizing the devices in San Francisco, Oakland, San José, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since New York City implemented the country’s first red-light safety camera program in 1992, more than 300 cities across the U.S. have installed traffic safety cameras, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-camera-communities\">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety\u003c/a>, a nonprofit research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been so eager for this solution to come to San Francisco, especially when it’s proven so successful in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/nyc-dot-speed-cameras.shtml\">New York City\u003c/a>, where it’s just dramatically shifted behavior and, most importantly, reduced traffic crashes,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speeding is consistently the primary cause of severe and fatal traffic crashes, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to end these tragedies on our streets, you have to go after speed,” Lindsey said. “Drivers slow down, and then the crashes go down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">highest traffic death toll\u003c/a> in nearly two decades, with 41 people killed in vehicle collisions, 24 of them pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spike in fatalities has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its traffic safety efforts, as activists, the public and some members of the Board of Supervisors increasingly criticize the SFMTA for falling behind on its ambitious program aimed at rapidly improving conditions for people walking and rolling at more than 900 locations across the city by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three-fourths of those projects, including improving crosswalks and resetting traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross, have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Dec. 17 meeting of San Francisco County transportation officials, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman asked Shannon Hake, SFMTA’s Vision Zero program manager, why the cameras were being deployed in March, even though the agency had set a target of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a problem when we articulate a public goal and are very clear about it and respond to people who are concerned about whether we can make that goal and over and over again to reassure them that we can — and then don’t,” Mandelman said. “That’s something that I think drives our public a little nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before the inauguration of Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hake attributed the extended deployment timeline to factors like identifying a contractor to run the system, completing electrical and structural engineering and working out an agreement with the city’s Public Works agency to mount the cameras on light poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speed cameras are a powerful solution. [They] will prevent tragedies, like what happened to my family,” said Jenny Yu, who became a pedestrian safety advocate after her mother was struck and permanently disabled by a speeding motorist in San Francisco 14 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press event on Thursday in the city’s North Beach neighborhood, Yu said her mother had been crossing Anza Street and Park Presidio Boulevard in the Richmond District and had the walk sign when an SUV made a left turn and collided into her. Yu’s mother suffered a ruptured spleen, multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury and now requires round-the-clock care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still sometimes wonder where my mother was going when she was hit by a speeding driver,” said Yu, who co-founded San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she continued, holding back tears. “But we’re going to need more solutions for the city to make Vision Zero the success story it can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey similarly acknowledged that more needs to be done. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco experienced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">highest traffic death toll\u003c/a> in nearly two decades, with 41 people killed in vehicle collisions, 24 of them pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spike in fatalities has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its traffic safety efforts, as activists, the public and some members of the Board of Supervisors increasingly criticize the SFMTA for falling behind on its ambitious program aimed at rapidly improving conditions for people walking and rolling at more than 900 locations across the city by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three-fourths of those projects, including improving crosswalks and resetting traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross, have been finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Dec. 17 meeting of San Francisco County transportation officials, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman asked Shannon Hake, SFMTA’s Vision Zero program manager, why the cameras were being deployed in March, even though the agency had set a target of February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a problem when we articulate a public goal and are very clear about it and respond to people who are concerned about whether we can make that goal and over and over again to reassure them that we can — and then don’t,” Mandelman said. “That’s something that I think drives our public a little nuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-07_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before the inauguration of Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hake attributed the extended deployment timeline to factors like identifying a contractor to run the system, completing electrical and structural engineering and working out an agreement with the city’s Public Works agency to mount the cameras on light poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speed cameras are a powerful solution. [They] will prevent tragedies, like what happened to my family,” said Jenny Yu, who became a pedestrian safety advocate after her mother was struck and permanently disabled by a speeding motorist in San Francisco 14 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press event on Thursday in the city’s North Beach neighborhood, Yu said her mother had been crossing Anza Street and Park Presidio Boulevard in the Richmond District and had the walk sign when an SUV made a left turn and collided into her. Yu’s mother suffered a ruptured spleen, multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury and now requires round-the-clock care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still sometimes wonder where my mother was going when she was hit by a speeding driver,” said Yu, who co-founded San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she continued, holding back tears. “But we’re going to need more solutions for the city to make Vision Zero the success story it can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey similarly acknowledged that more needs to be done. But she emphasized that the new cameras marked a major milestone in the fight for safer streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of the people who have pushed so hard for this are people who have had their loved ones hurt or killed by speeding drivers,” she said. “And I have been in the room with some of those folks in Sacramento with them, pleading with legislators to support this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is their win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>KQED’s Gilare Zada contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We can stop the killing and start the healing in every aspect to represent the beautiful city of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s nomination, which must be confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, comes days after the board approved Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028306/sf-activists-rally-against-luries-push-remove-outspoken-police-commissioner\">remove progressive attorney Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a> from the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor London Breed initially appointed Carter-Oberstone, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">their collegiality fizzled\u003c/a> after the commissioner revealed Breed’s practice of asking commissioners to sign undated resignation letters in order to take the job. 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Scott Wiener\u003c/a> on state legislation aimed at remedying social and economic harms during urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s that bulldozed thousands of homes primarily owned by Black, Japanese and Filipino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott founded and leads Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation, which supports victims of violence, and is the president of the San Francisco chapter of Mothers In Charge, another violence prevention organization. She has served on multiple city boards, including the Chief of Police African American Police Advisory Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike Carter-Oberstone, who studied police reform, Scott’s background lacks as much direct experience working on government and police issues beyond the scope of gun control. Police commissioners have a range of police oversight duties, including reviewing contracts, disciplinary actions and monitoring data gathered from SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mattie will bring invaluable experience, deep compassion and a commitment to our communities. Her voice on the Police Commission will help us strengthen public safety and build trust across our city,” Lurie said on Friday. “I’m optimistic that Mattie will receive the same overwhelming support that Wilson [Leung] did as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill\">teamed up with Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/a> on state legislation aimed at remedying social and economic harms during urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s that bulldozed thousands of homes primarily owned by Black, Japanese and Filipino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott founded and leads Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation, which supports victims of violence, and is the president of the San Francisco chapter of Mothers In Charge, another violence prevention organization. She has served on multiple city boards, including the Chief of Police African American Police Advisory Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike Carter-Oberstone, who studied police reform, Scott’s background lacks as much direct experience working on government and police issues beyond the scope of gun control. Police commissioners have a range of police oversight duties, including reviewing contracts, disciplinary actions and monitoring data gathered from SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mattie will bring invaluable experience, deep compassion and a commitment to our communities. Her voice on the Police Commission will help us strengthen public safety and build trust across our city,” Lurie said on Friday. “I’m optimistic that Mattie will receive the same overwhelming support that Wilson [Leung] did as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Without him as a reliable ally, Breed effectively lost control of the Police Commission, whose seven members include four appointed by the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Carter-Oberstone, Lurie’s office notified him three weeks ago that it would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">seeking his removal\u003c/a> after he made it clear during a previous meeting that he would not resign at the mayor’s request. Lurie has yet to provide a public explanation as to why he should be ousted from the role, the former police commissioner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have speculated that Lurie is seeking to shore up mayoral control of the Police Commission as part of a bid to replace SFPD Chief Bill Scott, a concern that was brought up by residents during public comment at Tuesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the selection of a new police chief, the Police Commission provides the mayor with a list of names to select from. Replacing Carter-Oberstone with a police commissioner who is more aligned with the mayor’s office could allow Lurie greater influence over that list if Scott is fired or resigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, a former SFPD spokesperson, said that he didn’t believe Lurie sought Carter-Oberstone’s ouster in preparation for replacing Scott and that Lurie has the right to seek his own appointments as a newly elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, I don’t believe this is about Mr. Carter-Oberstone. 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Her constituents have expressed a desire for greater police accountability, and Carter-Oberstone’s removal will be to the detriment of police oversight efforts, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a steadfast advocate for reforms and oversight. 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"content": "\u003cp>Community leaders and civil rights activists rallied Monday afternoon at San Francisco City Hall against Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>’s efforts to oust police commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone, a progressive and outspoken supporter of police reform in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came ahead of a Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday on the motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">remove Carter-Oberstone from the commission\u003c/a>. Proponents of police accountability are urging supervisors to reject the motion, saying it could jeopardize the critical role and independence of watchdog agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the board signs off on this removal, which is being made with no accusation of wrongdoing, no accusation of incompetence, it will set a terrible precedent for not only the independence of the Police Commission but for every independent charter commission in the city,” Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone, who currently serves as vice president of the commission, said he was notified three weeks ago by the mayor’s office that it would be pursuing his formal removal after he rejected Lurie’s request for his resignation. The mayor still hasn’t provided the public with an explanation for why he should be removed, Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to him by Lurie’s chief of staff, Staci Slaughter, which was obtained by KQED, Carter-Oberstone was told that the mayor is looking for a commissioner who is more open to collaboration. Carter-Oberstone’s relationship with former Mayor London Breed, who twice appointed him to the Police Commission, soured after he voted against her pick for the commission’s president and publicly exposed her office’s now-prohibited practice of having commission appointees preemptively sign undated resignation letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone attend a rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was also one of several city officials and commissioners who opposed Breed’s Proposition E, which greatly reduced the Police Commission’s oversight authority over SFPD and expanded the use of surveillance technology and police chases. Voters passed the measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone noted that he has no problems working with the mayor’s office to improve public safety as long as the independence of the commission is maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027784 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241119-SFHomelessArrests-17-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, an assistant chief at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, said during Monday’s rally that San Francisco needs more commissioners like Carter-Oberstone and urged supervisors to “vote [their] values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need commissioners … who are not afraid to speak truth to power, who are not afraid to whistle blow when he knows something is wrong and unjust,” Chan, who previously served on the Police Commission, said during the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several nonprofit organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also spoke up in support of Carter-Oberstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a persistent, reliable advocate for police accountability and data-driven independent oversight,” said Musa Tariq, a policy coordinator at CAIR. “Under his leadership, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996060/san-francisco-police-are-now-restricted-from-certain-traffic-stops-heres-why\">limited abusive pretext traffic stops\u003c/a>, exposed corruption and more. His removal would mean the city of San Francisco sanctioning further police misconduct and abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariq said San Francisco voters have consistently pushed for greater police oversight and urged supervisors to allow Carter-Oberstone to follow through on that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone, who currently serves as vice president of the commission, said he was notified three weeks ago by the mayor’s office that it would be pursuing his formal removal after he rejected Lurie’s request for his resignation. The mayor still hasn’t provided the public with an explanation for why he should be removed, Carter-Oberstone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to him by Lurie’s chief of staff, Staci Slaughter, which was obtained by KQED, Carter-Oberstone was told that the mayor is looking for a commissioner who is more open to collaboration. Carter-Oberstone’s relationship with former Mayor London Breed, who twice appointed him to the Police Commission, soured after he voted against her pick for the commission’s president and publicly exposed her office’s now-prohibited practice of having commission appointees preemptively sign undated resignation letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of San Francisco Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone attend a rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was also one of several city officials and commissioners who opposed Breed’s Proposition E, which greatly reduced the Police Commission’s oversight authority over SFPD and expanded the use of surveillance technology and police chases. Voters passed the measure last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone noted that he has no problems working with the mayor’s office to improve public safety as long as the independence of the commission is maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alex Crafton stood at the corner of Sixth and Jessie streets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> South of Market neighborhood, holding a cup of coffee. A few weeks ago, police arrested the 26-year-old for drug possession outside his former SRO at the same corner, releasing him within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s currently living with a friend in the Mission, but he came back to the area recently to check out San Francisco’s latest experiment to address the fentanyl crisis, something he knows first-hand through struggling with addiction for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cops have been cracking down more lately, but it’s a lawless city,” Crafton said after exiting a new triage center \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> and other city agencies, including the San Francisco Police Department and Public Health Department, opened this month on 469 Stevenson St. in a fenced-off corner of a former Nordstrom parking lot. “I don’t know if I agree with forcing people to go into rehab because that generally doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday, workers at the triage center offered free water, coffee and snacks, and helped visitors sign up for government IDs and other programs like emergency shelter and Journey Home, which offers bus tickets out of the city for people looking to reunite with loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John DaRosa, who lives in his car near Sixth and Jessie, stopped by the triage center to find a place to stay that night and a cup of coffee. While staff connected with him, he left, still unsure about a place to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were very welcoming,” he said. “I’d like to get help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are some of the people that Lurie is hoping to reach with the space he envisions as a walk-in center where people can get connected with health and social services, as well as a drop-off point where law enforcement can bring people who have been arrested for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The triage center opened to the public on Feb. 7, but details about how law enforcement will operate during the 30-day pilot remain scant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its first week, the site was primarily a few picnic tables and white tents. Spokespersons from both SFPD and the mayor’s office declined to say when police operations would start but noted that site outcomes and local conditions will be evaluated after 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t sit by, so we are trying this and demand that people move from the street into the triage center, a place where they can get a cup of coffee, they can be seen by somebody,” Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908873/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-takes-your-questions\">KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “We’re going to try something new, and that’s what the triage center is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new outdoor triage center in a parking lot on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who are arrested will get dropped off by police so they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025495/luries-fentanyl-response-clears-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors\">signed his first major piece of legislation into law\u003c/a>, which aims to expedite hiring and contracting by limiting the Board of Supervisors’ approval for certain programs addressing the fentanyl crisis, an opioid about 50 times stronger than heroin that has been associated with the most overdose deaths in San Francisco in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day, Lurie announced a second site will open this spring in the Tenderloin at 822 Geary St. for law enforcement, paramedics and street outreach teams to place people experiencing mental health or substance use crises. The Tenderloin facility is a tenet of Lurie’s plan for his first six months in office, along with opening 1,500 shelter beds, which he’s acknowledged the city lacks enough of to direct people to at the drop-off sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The center will be staffed by medical professionals,” he said at a press conference. “It will divert people from the emergency department at places like SF General (Hospital), and it will accept patients dropped off by police, paramedics and street crisis response teams. This will free up essential hospital and first responder resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the city has tried a pop-up-style center aimed at improving street conditions and connecting people to drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, as part of Mayor London Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915870/inside-san-franciscos-tenderloin-center-that-serves-hundreds-every-day\">the city opened the Tenderloin Center\u003c/a>, a temporary site that operated at United Nations Plaza and offered food, hygiene services and connections to health and social services. Unlike Lurie’s new sites, it allowed supervised drug consumption. Medical professionals there reversed more than 300 overdoses, with no lives lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Tenderloin Center faced scrutiny from residents and local businesses for its location in the heart of the Civic Center, where it often drew hundreds of people daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was really great about that program (Tenderloin Center) is that with all of the many overdoses they encountered there, not a single life was lost,” said Crafton, who visited the Tenderloin Center during its 10-month run. “That was a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026724\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John DaRosa and April DaRosa outside of an outdoor triage area on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. The two are hoping to get a shelter space. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement, along with leaders from the public health and emergency management departments, expressed support for the city’s latest fentanyl response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This center will be a tremendous help to our officers who are working hard to enforce the law and improve street conditions in San Francisco,” SFPD Chief Bill Scott said in a statement. “I want to thank Mayor Daniel Lurie for moving swiftly to address this crisis and empowering our entire city in the effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, police have not yet used the triage center for any arrest processing or drop-offs, according to a spokesperson from the mayor’s office. He said police have so far been able to process arrests directly on the street and have not yet utilized the new command center in the SoMa parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site was closed all Presidents Day weekend due to inadequate staffing, according to the mayor’s spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But addiction experts like Vitka Eisen, CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, the city’s largest nonprofit drug treatment provider, remain skeptical. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alex Crafton stood at the corner of Sixth and Jessie streets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> South of Market neighborhood, holding a cup of coffee. A few weeks ago, police arrested the 26-year-old for drug possession outside his former SRO at the same corner, releasing him within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s currently living with a friend in the Mission, but he came back to the area recently to check out San Francisco’s latest experiment to address the fentanyl crisis, something he knows first-hand through struggling with addiction for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cops have been cracking down more lately, but it’s a lawless city,” Crafton said after exiting a new triage center \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> and other city agencies, including the San Francisco Police Department and Public Health Department, opened this month on 469 Stevenson St. in a fenced-off corner of a former Nordstrom parking lot. “I don’t know if I agree with forcing people to go into rehab because that generally doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday, workers at the triage center offered free water, coffee and snacks, and helped visitors sign up for government IDs and other programs like emergency shelter and Journey Home, which offers bus tickets out of the city for people looking to reunite with loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John DaRosa, who lives in his car near Sixth and Jessie, stopped by the triage center to find a place to stay that night and a cup of coffee. While staff connected with him, he left, still unsure about a place to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were very welcoming,” he said. “I’d like to get help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are some of the people that Lurie is hoping to reach with the space he envisions as a walk-in center where people can get connected with health and social services, as well as a drop-off point where law enforcement can bring people who have been arrested for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The triage center opened to the public on Feb. 7, but details about how law enforcement will operate during the 30-day pilot remain scant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its first week, the site was primarily a few picnic tables and white tents. Spokespersons from both SFPD and the mayor’s office declined to say when police operations would start but noted that site outcomes and local conditions will be evaluated after 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t sit by, so we are trying this and demand that people move from the street into the triage center, a place where they can get a cup of coffee, they can be seen by somebody,” Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908873/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-takes-your-questions\">KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “We’re going to try something new, and that’s what the triage center is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new outdoor triage center in a parking lot on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who are arrested will get dropped off by police so they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 12, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025495/luries-fentanyl-response-clears-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors\">signed his first major piece of legislation into law\u003c/a>, which aims to expedite hiring and contracting by limiting the Board of Supervisors’ approval for certain programs addressing the fentanyl crisis, an opioid about 50 times stronger than heroin that has been associated with the most overdose deaths in San Francisco in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day, Lurie announced a second site will open this spring in the Tenderloin at 822 Geary St. for law enforcement, paramedics and street outreach teams to place people experiencing mental health or substance use crises. The Tenderloin facility is a tenet of Lurie’s plan for his first six months in office, along with opening 1,500 shelter beds, which he’s acknowledged the city lacks enough of to direct people to at the drop-off sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The center will be staffed by medical professionals,” he said at a press conference. “It will divert people from the emergency department at places like SF General (Hospital), and it will accept patients dropped off by police, paramedics and street crisis response teams. This will free up essential hospital and first responder resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time that the city has tried a pop-up-style center aimed at improving street conditions and connecting people to drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, as part of Mayor London Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915870/inside-san-franciscos-tenderloin-center-that-serves-hundreds-every-day\">the city opened the Tenderloin Center\u003c/a>, a temporary site that operated at United Nations Plaza and offered food, hygiene services and connections to health and social services. Unlike Lurie’s new sites, it allowed supervised drug consumption. Medical professionals there reversed more than 300 overdoses, with no lives lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Tenderloin Center faced scrutiny from residents and local businesses for its location in the heart of the Civic Center, where it often drew hundreds of people daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was really great about that program (Tenderloin Center) is that with all of the many overdoses they encountered there, not a single life was lost,” said Crafton, who visited the Tenderloin Center during its 10-month run. “That was a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026724\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John DaRosa and April DaRosa outside of an outdoor triage area on Stevenson Street on Feb. 11, 2025. The two are hoping to get a shelter space. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement, along with leaders from the public health and emergency management departments, expressed support for the city’s latest fentanyl response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This center will be a tremendous help to our officers who are working hard to enforce the law and improve street conditions in San Francisco,” SFPD Chief Bill Scott said in a statement. “I want to thank Mayor Daniel Lurie for moving swiftly to address this crisis and empowering our entire city in the effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, police have not yet used the triage center for any arrest processing or drop-offs, according to a spokesperson from the mayor’s office. 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"content": "\u003cp>A police chase that ended in a crash at a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District on Sunday was one of the first major incidents since voters passed a controversial ballot measure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">to expand vehicle pursuits\u003c/a> in March and could serve as a warning about its impact on public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people were injured when a silver SUV smashed into the outdoor parklet seating at the Napper Tandy’s Irish pub, where football fans were watching the Super Bowl. Police said the Audi crashed through the outdoor area after an attempted traffic stop escalated across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers responded to a call of a wanted vehicle near Stonestown Galleria just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, according to spokesperson Allison Maxie. The department’s investigation has identified that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxie said the pursuit began when the driver “failed to yield” to officers’ attempt to pull over the car, fleeing east to the Mission before crashing into the parklet near 24th and South Van Ness streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire structure, the parklet, collapsed on all the people who were within that structure itself,” said San Francisco Fire Department Lt. 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They were transferred to a nearby hospital and are all recovering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw footage of the crash, I’ve spoken to witnesses, and it is a miracle no one died yesterday,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who was on the scene following the incident in her district, wrote on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her campaign last year, Fielder was a critic of San Francisco’s Proposition E, which expanded the police’s ability to chase vehicles when it passed in March after being put on the ballot by former Mayor London Breed. Previously, officers could only pursue the vehicle of suspects in violent felonies, but Proposition E enables them to chase a suspect in any felony or “violent” misdemeanor — a term not defined in the California penal code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California led the charge against the measure, saying more police chases would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">endanger lives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2024 presentation, Lt. Bassey Obot reported that between 2018 and 2022, under the stricter pursuit policy, the SFPD was involved in 20 to 40 pursuits per year. During that time, two people were killed and 34 were injured. In 2023, a May chase in the Mission killed one person and injured four others, and in October, another person died in a chase near the Highway 101 off-ramp at San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Fielder \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/meet-the-district-9-candidates-best-and-worst-elements-of-prop-e/\">told \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Proposition E “expanded the language to give SFPD basically free reign to pursue anyone in a car chase, despite a \u003cem>Chronicle \u003c/em>investigation showing police pursuits frequently go wrong, killing an average of nearly two people a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024586 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-36-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to have serious questions related to why SFPD needed to engage in a dangerous high speed chase in a residential neighborhood that sent six people to the hospital and could have killed someone,” she told KQED in a statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD spokesperson Maxie said that the driver and a passenger of the SUV were arrested following the crash, and both had existing arrest warrants in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor Ross, 32, of San Francisco, was arrested on five felony charges, including reckless evasion of a police officer, fleeing from the scene of an accident, and driving a stolen vehicle. 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