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S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ * 2
    #28359193 - 06/14/23 03:27 AM (10 months, 30 days ago)

S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’

Mallory Moench
June 13, 2023

Mayor London Breed fiercely defended her controversial policy to arrest and detain drug users to get them into treatment against criticism from Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday, calling him a “white man who’s talking about Black and brown people as if you’re the savior.”

Breed has directed the police department to use public intoxication laws to arrest people who are high on drugs, detain them to sober up in jail and then offer them services. So far, officers have cited or arrested 38 people under the so-called “Intoxication Detention program,” 12 of whom already had arrest warrants issued against them, she said during the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. She said none accepted drug treatment upon release.

Preston pushed back on the approach Tuesday. He pointed out Breed approved her health department’s overdose prevention plan in September that said Black, brown and indigenous people continue to be impacted by “the racism and criminalization that have been the hallmark of federal US drug policy for the past several decades."

The report says “punitive policies have not been shown to be effective at reducing overdose deaths, while incarceration is known to significantly increase risk of dying of drug overdose” and cites a study showing an increased risk of fatal overdose after incarceration.

When he asked Breed whether she would follow the health department’s advice and end punitive policies, she clapped back.

“Here we go, another white man who’s talking about Black and brown people as if you’re the savior of those people and you speak for them,” said Breed, the city’s first female Black mayor.

Breed and Preston have a long and contentious history: Preston lost the District 5 supervisor’s race to Breed in 2016, then defeated her appointed candidate after she became mayor in 2019.

Breed pointed out that last year, her health department provided around 4,500 people with substance use treatment. The city counted 4,287 people last year who were homeless and had substance use disorder, and another 3,070 who struggled with homelessness, addiction and mental illness.

“The fact is, it’s not just services, it’s also force,” she said.

Breed pointed out she lost a sister to a drug overdose. She described a friend of hers, who passed away recently, who she said told her he never would have gotten treatment if he hadn’t been arrested and ended up in a sober-living program.

“You can quote all these statistics all you want, but at the end of the day, you’ve never lived in it,” she said. “...I am going to continue to make sure we are providing treatment, providing compassionate care, but at the end of the day, when we need to make arrests because someone is breaking the law and needs to be held accountable and can potentially be forced into treatment or services, I’m going to do so.”

Breed said she’s heard from Tenderloin constituents that they want more police and questioned whether Preston has spoken to those affected. He responded that “I’ve spent plenty of time talking to folks impacted in the community,” and said he does so every day.

“I don’t spend as much time meeting with the business interests that have made it clear they want to arrest and incarcerate drug users in San Francisco,” he said.

Instead of incarceration, Preston pushed the mayor to fulfill her administration's commitment last year to open a wellness hub, a service center for drug users that could also include drug consumption supervised by medical professionals, an intervention research shows has saved lives around the world.

He responded to her personal criticism in a text message to The Chronicle during the ongoing meeting.

“This isn’t about who I am, or who the Mayor is,” he wrote. “Six months ago we asked about the status of a Tenderloin wellness hub, and the Mayor’s administration promised it by June 30, 2023, but we haven’t seen meaningful progress. Hundreds of people have died since then. That’s the tragedy, and that’s why I will continue to advocate for overdose prevention solutions that we know will save lives.” 

Breed, her office and health department did not provide a timeline Tuesday for opening the hub. The mayor has proposed in her budget using funds from an opioid lawsuit settlement with pharmaceutical companies to open up to three wellness hubs over the next two years. 

“I have made it clear I want to see these open,” Breed said during Tuesday's session.

The city pulled the plug on opening a site with a nonprofit before the end of last year, citing unresolved legal issues since the federal government still technically outlaws such facilities. The City Attorney has taken the stance that he wants nonprofits to fund the supervised drug consumption part of any wellness hub, similar to sites in New York City, to avoid legal liability. Breed pointed out Preston has joined meetings with the City Attorney about legal challenges, including concerns that people working there could lose their licenses. 

But legal challenges didn’t stop Breed’s administration from running an unofficial supervised drug consumption site for 11 months at the Tenderloin Center, which she set up as a linkage to services under a three-month emergency declaration in response to the neighborhood’s drug crisis. Staff reversed more than 300 overdoses at the center during that time.

Preston opposed Breed’s Tenderloin emergency because she said she would use police to force people into treatment. But he supported a supervised consumption site and opposed Breed closing the center, lobbying for a replacement before the end of last year. After the center closed, overdose deaths rose.

Breed said Tuesday that the Tenderloin Center “wasn’t doing what it was supposed to be doing,” which was giving help and support to those dealing with drug addiction.

People she grew up with told her they felt that those inside the center were happy about drug use, she said. That upset her friends because they felt like they weren't getting help or support.

She called Preston’s questioning “a way to oppose me on every level, everything that I do, without coming to my office, sitting, meeting with me, talking to me, about ways in which we can actually work together to make this a reality.” Preston responded their offices have been meeting on this subject, but she was not present.

Breed on Tuesday called the question time with supervisors unproductive and “just ridiculous.” Last month’s chaotic question time, held outside of City Hall in U.N. Plaza to talk about ending open-air drug markets, was cut short by hecklers.

Source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-drug-crisis-breed-preston-criticism-18150703.php

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Re: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ [Re: Thomas Envisio] * 1
    #28359694 - 06/14/23 02:35 PM (10 months, 29 days ago)

"You can quote all these statistics all you want, but at the end of the day, my... ANECDOTE!!"

Good grief, her go-to is essentially, "I know a guy.."


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Re: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ [Re: GenericHero]
    #28360385 - 06/15/23 03:53 AM (10 months, 29 days ago)

What an interesting perspective, that it would be "controversial" to arrest people breaking the law

If they arrest me for breaking the law they're racists!

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Re: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ [Re: stzacrack]
    #28360709 - 06/15/23 11:36 AM (10 months, 28 days ago)

People in that community have to make a conscious choice, not to use, or cannot be reformed against their will by any amount of nagging, coddling, or forceful chickenshit.

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Re: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ [Re: Thomas Envisio]
    #28361224 - 06/15/23 04:53 PM (10 months, 28 days ago)

Yeah, and we'll NEVER stop using drugs.

We'll smile in your faces and say we won't use any more drugs

And then go use drugs 5 minutes later

BITCH

We'll NEVER stop using drugs.

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Re: S.F. Mayor Breed defends controversial move to arrest drug users: ‘You’ve never lived in it’ [Re: thirtygoats]
    #28362306 - 06/16/23 04:04 PM (10 months, 27 days ago)

Quote:

thirtygoats said:
Yeah, and we'll NEVER stop using drugs.

We'll smile in your faces and say we won't use any more drugs

And then go use drugs 5 minutes later

BITCH

We'll NEVER stop using drugs.




Are you a fentanyl addict who lives in a cardboard box?
If your answer is "no" this not about you. No one is getting arrested for being too fucked up at home, its to deal with the crisis of homeless drug addicts living in tents, shoplifting and harassing the humans going to work.


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