San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s verbal sparring match with city officials over the police’s role in fighting the drug crisis signals a change of tone, according to one cautiously optimistic activist. It is said that there is a possibility.
“I think this incident sent a message to the people of San Francisco that the era of this kind of democratic socialist radical political movement in San Francisco was coming to an end,” he said. The converted Tom Wolfe told Fox News.
Addict-turned-activist Tom Wolfe shared a photo of San Francisco’s drug and homeless crisis. He was addicted to heroin in 2018 and is now recovering, pushing back against progressive policies he claims pushed San Francisco into a “ditch.” (Credit: Tom Wolfe)
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Breed recently worked to crack down on San Francisco’s open-air drug market, announcing at an oversight board meeting on Tuesday that police had arrested 38 people in about a week. During a question-and-answer session, director Dean Preston said that “Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities across the country” were being disproportionately affected by racist drug policies, and that Breed’s approach to the city’s 2022 It was criticized for being inconsistent with the 2020 overdose prevention plan.
A self-described democratic socialist, he also suggested that “punitive policies” would lead to an increase in overdose deaths.
“Here we go again. Another white man talking about blacks and browns as if you were their savior and their mouthpiece,” Breed responded. rice field. She then defended law enforcement as a necessary element in solving the city’s drug crisis.
“At the end of the day, when someone needs to be arrested for breaking the law and being held accountable and potentially forced into treatment services, that’s what I’m going to do,” she said. rice field.
Wolf became homeless in 2018 from a heroin addiction in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. His sixth arrest put him in the county jail, where he said he had had enough time to clean up and reassess his life. Now an advocate of recovery, he is a frequent critic of Mr. Breed and other government officials.
“Even if she was right, [on Tuesday], much of what happened in San Francisco happened under her watch. So she has to take some responsibility for that too,” Wolfe said.
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Breed joined a chorus of liberal mayors across the country who diverted money from police after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The following year, Breed reversed his policy and announced an urgent request for additional funding to strengthen police departments and combat crime.
Wolfe added that while Breed’s response to Preston’s questioning was “somewhat theatrical”, it “definitely needed to be”.
San Francisco residents have long complained about homelessness, crime and drug use in their neighborhoods. San Francisco County still lost 9,421 residents last year, although the coronavirus pandemic has caused massive outflows from the Bay Area, and although the flow has slowed since the pandemic began. According to the Census Bureau.
Tents line the sidewalks of a San Francisco street. (John Michael Larsch/Fox News Digital)
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Far-left progressives and socialists have dominated Golden Gate City politics for years, “putting San Francisco into a ditch,” Wolfe said.
“Our downtown has become a crater,” he said, noting that the city’s most famous shopping mall recently defaulted on its loans and chose to turn over its property to financiers. “They left with no confidence that shoppers would come back to town.”
Wolf said that progressive politicians “can only blame the pandemic” and that public drug use, crime and homelessness are exacerbating problems downtown.
“You have to start thinking that perhaps bad policies and bad leadership combine to really produce bad results,” he said. “We’re kind of scraping rock bottom right now and hopefully there’s nowhere else to go but up from here.”
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Wolff said it was “still open” on whether Breed would combine public health and accountability and stick to a tough and loving approach to the drug crisis.
“If she can figure that out, we might be able to make some big strides in San Francisco,” he said.
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Ramiro Vargas contributed the accompanying video.
