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Residents and owners of San Francisco companies say that recent cleansing have displaced drug problems to nearby streets and alleys, worsening their quality of life.
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Despite the jump of resources and implementation operations, including a 24/7 mobile command unit, locals say the city’s efforts do not provide lasting solutions.
San Francisco – In recent weeks, Mayor Daniel Luri and police have announced successful efforts to clean and move some of the largest hot spots of drugs in San Francisco.
Residents and business owners now say that chaos has just moved to nearby alleys and streets.
They say that their neighborhoods have deteriorated dramatically and quickly, as the highly published raids in the city. Now they say that their quality of life is worse than ever.
The drug activity is shifted
Local perspective
Julian Avenue, just in steps from the 16th and mission streets, has become a new hot spot for opening drug use.
A resident, Andrew Weekens, shared his attempt to find a man overdone outside his building on Monday afternoon and witness a drug person in the same place later.
“When you get home with your children and see someone who does not deal with and dies in front of you, I want to say that we are numb now because we see him constantly,” Weekens said. “It makes me sad that I’m not sad about it because I’ve seen it so much and I’m just so disappointed.”
Whiton’s wife, Steph Nadzhrera, expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation.
During the KTVU hour, SFPD Patrol Cars passed twice to break a group of people.
“It’s just pretty stressful because it just feels dangerous now,” Nadzhra said. “It’s dirty, and my family and my family have to spend time out there and clean our streets because we don’t like our children to see our streets in these conditions. So we go out there and take needles and cracks.”
In the last month, Lurie has promised a leap to resources to send the announcement that San Francisco will no longer tolerate drug markets or illegal vending. A mobile command unit has already been published 24 hours a day in the long-term 16th Bart Plaza Street.
Last week, the San Francisco Police Department conducted a large -scale exploration of Market and Van Ness drug outdoor drug markets.
“There are about 50 drug users all day, every day and night since the mayor began to break up on TL (Tenderloin) and Soma,” Weekens said. “So it was a nightmare.”
For the Kitava Restaurant on Mission Street, the cleaning of the 16th and the mission had a positive impact on its store.
“It was now a dramatic improvement when there is a 24/7 presence on the other side of the street,” says Neil Mitchell, the general manager of the restaurant.
However, its restaurant’s back opens on Cap Street, which remains a problem area.
“Almost every day I see the use of open drugs, drug sales,” Mitchell said. “During the last three weeks there has been a drastic increase.”
Residents call for a lasting change
Neighbors and traders have formed a 16th street to fight lawlessness and require urgent action from the city. The group met with Mayor Luri at a community meeting on Friday.
“He works with people. He stains his hands, he rolls his sleeves as long as there are action,” Mitchell said.
The weekend and his wife, Navar, also attended the meeting.
“I believe Daniel Luri, I just have the feeling that he really wants to do something for SF,” said Steph Narjrah. “But in the meantime, we still have to fight this mess on the street.”
Residents said they could not rely on 311 to deal with their complaints, noting that workers often arrive for several days or even a week after a report was made.
SFPD response
In a statement to KTVU, SFPD said in part:
“Our 16th and mission strategy is similar to other areas of focus in the city, where the use of drugs and drugs should be addressed. We should not deal with the improvement of public arrests that are related to drug arrest but are related to drugs, but that is, but they are related to drug arrest That it is related to drugs that are related to drug arrest but are related to drug arrest, but we know that this is not up to date.
Employees strategically appointed to the mobile command van are obliged to provide the immediate area, unless there is a life -threatening emergency. “
On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Luri will make a message about street work at the Ministry of Emergency Management.
KTVU turned to leader Jackie Filter, but did not get an answer.
Source
KTVU Interviews, SFPD