(The Center Square) – To deal with the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, California is bringing in the National Guard.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an agreement between California Highway Patrol, California National Guard, San Francisco Police Department, and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office to help combat the city’s fentanyl problem.
The agencies will collaborate to stop fentanyl trafficking and large-scale drug dealing operations in the city.
“Two truths can co-exist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth — and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis,” Gov. Newsom said in a press release issued by his office. “We’re taking action. Through this new collaborative partnership, we are providing more law enforcement resources and personnel to crack down on crime linked to the fentanyl crisis, holding the poison peddlers accountable, and increasing law enforcement presence to improve public safety and public confidence in San Francisco.”
Critics dispute the characterization that San Francisco has less violent crime due to policies that differentiate incidents and number of victims involved.
Major General Matthew P. Beevers of the California National Guard expressed confidence that the National Guard would help fix this problem endured by San Francisco.
“The CalGuard is seeing significant success supporting multiagency task forces interdicting fentanyl across our state,” Beevers said in the release. “We expect to achieve the same success working with our partners in San Francisco.”
And San Francisco Mayor London Breed praised Governor Newsom for helping to make the partnership a reality.
“I want to thank Governor Newsom for this critical support to help break up the open-air drug dealing happening in our city,” Breed said in the release. “Our Police Department and District Attorney have been partnering to tackle this issue and increase enforcement, but our local agencies can use more support. With the Governor’s leadership and clear direction, our state enforcement agencies can partner with us to make a difference for our residents, businesses, and workers who are living with the impacts every day.”
Governor Newsom has directed the state’s highway patrol to find ways to work with the San Francisco police, including assigning personnel to help in combating the problem via technical assistance, training, and drug trafficking enforcement, including in the Tenderloin.
Newsom directed the CalGuard to “identify specialist personnel and resources to support analysis of drug trafficking operations, with a particular focus on disrupting and dismantling fentanyl trafficking rings,” according to the release.
Newsom’s office reiterates that the operation will seek to hold drug suppliers and traffickers accountable, not those using the substances.
Typical Democrat, first your negligence creates a problem, then you rush in to try to solve the problem you contributed to creating so you can claim to be a hero problem solver, how convenient.
AND exactly what will the Guard be able to do to “rectify this, that the COPS CAN’T??!?”
The Guard can be “not (yet) defunded”.
People that are fentanyl trafficking when arrested need to be charged with accessary to murder also ,with penalty of DEATH!
IMO ALL drug dealers and smugglers need that sentence!
Yes, yes, and yes. As I have been saying, the dealers know people will die from their deadly drug, but easy money is too hard to resist .
A few death penalties might get through to even the vilest drug dealers. If we are going to fight back against these low “sub-humans” (People without thought of the consequences of their action.) let’s do it. Viva Death Sentence!
AND make that death sentence, PUBLIC AND PAINFUL.. MAKE them OD on their OWN poison!
“Two truths can co-exist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth — and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis,” Gov. Newsom said in a press release issued by his office.
#1. To Democrats – their truth and facts are just a matter of their opinions and what they want the truth to be.
#2. None of what any Democrat says is truthful. Sometimes it is an outright Lie other times they put their twist on what they say.
I am sick and tired of the NON STOP WHINING FROM THE WEST COAST PSYCHO LILLY’S ABOUT THEIR SO PROFESSED NON OPPRESSION THAT I COULD PUKE . BUCK UP LITTLE PSYCHO FRICK’S BC DR SUESS IS HEADED YOUR WAY…..
Well hells bells, perhaps the little psycho FREAKS should have more sanctuary cities… bwaaaahaaaha