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At any given moment, you can have thousands of people deep in their addiction in SF and in the phase of just wanting to do drugs and be left alone.
They might be housed or unhoused. They might be alone in a room or in a group on the sidewalk.
But if they don't want to engage with our services, they can mostly just keep doing their thing - anywhere and everywhere.
There are always new people entering that phase, and the one's currently in it get physically worse each day.
When it comes to the SF Fentanyl crisis, the problem isn’t the government, it is us.
We’ve told our government to arrest drug dealers and house/treat drug users.
In the past 3 years we have over 1700 dealer arrests, almost 5000 people given housing, and 25% increase in treatment (and we have excess supply of treatment).
Unfortunately that strategy hasn’t worked. And it won’t work.
The drugs are too cheap to produce and transport and the dealer labor supply is infinite.
Giving a user housing doesn’t magically cure their addiction and scaling drug treatment in places where drugs are easily available and cheap is highly ineffective.
This is a complex problem and we need a more sophisticated solution.
Everyone points to Zurich as the best case study. But advocates put too much emphasis is on safe consumption sites and almost none on the role of the police.
We are going to have to better educate ourselves about the problem if we are going to expect better solutions from our government.
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Rose Street in Lower Haight:
"I have been reporting constantly about encampments in my area but its still not resolved. Why is there actual no change and it is getting worse. This is not life or death but it is a serious concern of safety and cleanliness. Someone from homeless department is not doing their job. These people never leave the area but the reports keeps on getting closed. they are just getting moved around from one street to another. Genuinely moving away cuz of this shitty situation."
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Here is the most recent one solvesf.com/report/202000201…
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I guess it was shed: "Toxic waste needs to be cleaned up from the fire that burned down the shed so it doesn’t harm the dogs."
solvesf.com/report/202000203…
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Potrero Hill today. There are many reports of this spot.
"Unhoused encampment with lady screaming obscenities at everyone passing by. There is a school across the street."
"Near school and park entrance that is used for PE"
"A gray tarp is set up on the sidewalk outside Jackson Park/Playground for the last 2 weeks. There is now trash on the sidewalk (where schoolchildren, dogs, and locals walk), and on the street itself where cars parallel park. When walking past the tent, there is sometimes a smoky smell."
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Here is one of the many reports solvesf.com/report/202000202…
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Reported again this morning in Hayes Valley:
"Homeless Drug Encampment (multiple reports, first reported 20hrs ago)"
The city responded to this location in Hayes Valley yesterday saying they were “unable to locate” these people at 2pm yesterday.
But reports from 4pm and 1:40am shows this:
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Here is the debris report solvesf.com/report/202000202…
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Solve SF retweeted
9 out of 10 times they decline services. There is data on that. And it's primarily because of drugs. When I was homeless I stayed in a shelter for three days. I left because it was too far away from where I got my drugs. That's the truth.
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Ask your government.
How many people are declining services?
What services are they declining?
Why are they declining them?
How often are they declining them?
What are we going to do different tomorrow?
"Case Resolved... Client declined all services offered by the team." - 2 days ago
This guy has been in this spot for months, needs help, but declines all services offered.
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