The San Francisco mayor's clash with a city official over drug policies could signal a tone shift in the deeply blue city, one cautiously-optimistic activist says.
on Tuesday that police made 38 arrests in about one week. During a question and answer period, Supervisor Dean Preston criticized Breed's approach as contradicting the city's 2022 overdose prevention plan stating that"Black, Brown and indigenous communities nationwide" have been disproportionately impacted by racist drug policies.
The self-described Democratic Socialist also suggested"punitive policies" would lead to more overdose deaths. "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," Breed responded. She then defended law enforcement as a necessary component of fixing the city's"At the end of the day, when we need to make arrests because someone's breaking the law and needs to be held accountable and can potentially be forced into treatment services, I'm going to do so," she said.
Wolf was addicted to heroin and homeless in San Francisco's Tenderloin district in 2018. He said his sixth arrest landed him in county jail long enough to get clean and reevaluate his life. Now he is a recovery advocate and has often criticized Breed and other government officials. "Even though she was right [on Tuesday], a lot of what we see that's happened in San Francisco happened on her watch. So she also has to bear some responsibility for that," Wolf said.
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