The recall of San Francisco's top public prosecutor amid rising drug deaths exposes a rift on the left.
San Francisco's district attorney Chesa Boudin was defeated in a recall election on Tuesday
This week the fallout claimed its first victim, with San Francisco's district attorney, Chesa Boudin, voted out of office.On one side of the debate is London Breed, San Francisco's Democratic mayor, for whom the Tenderloin is deeply personal. She recalls vividly how her 25-year-old sister was found dead in the district from a drug overdose in 2006.
But that was then, and what has happened in the Tenderloin since has made her question the positions she once believed in. Then fentanyl came along. Local police say the drug has slowly replaced crack cocaine and heroin. Its potency makes it easy to get the dosage wrong and overdose.In 2017, 222 people died in San Francisco of drug overdoses. In 2020, it was 711."We're compassionate," she said. "But at the same time, we're not going to tolerate certain things that have gone on for far too long.
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