San Francisco—The San Francisco Board of Supervisors convened a special outdoor meeting at the United Nations Plaza on May 23 to address the elephant in the room, the open-air drug crisis.
President of the Board Aaron Peskin said he hoped the dialogue “focuses some urgency around the crisis on our streets, and the need for an effective plan to address it.”
“What we are doing is not working,” Mayor London Breed said in the meeting. “And in fact, our local resources have increased, but it has not dealt with the problem based on the magnitude of what we’re experiencing.”
“We have to make the kinds of decisions that are going to allow for people to get the help and the support they need, but [also] to not allow things to continue in the way that they have for far too long,” Breed added, with the latter referring to drug dealing not getting deserved punishment….