California Highway Patrol officers will be assigned to San Francisco beginning Monday to help combat the city’s fentanyl trafficking crisis, Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday.
“The CHP will strategically allocate a new team of law enforcement personnel to proactively enforce the law — with a focus on drug trafficking enforcement within key areas of the city, including the Tenderloin,” Newsom said in a statement.
San Francisco-area CHP units will also provide “supplemental patrol in key areas of the city,” according to the governor.
Newsom’s announcement follows up on a promise April 21 to use state police and California National Guard resources to help the San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco District Attorney’s office stem open-air drug dealing.
Fentanyl is the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in San Francisco, according to the city Department of Public Health. Of 620 such deaths recorded in 2022, 72 percent were attributed to fentanyl, the department said in a report.
Fentanyl can be fatal even in small doses. Health officials say people who use drugs may be unintentionally exposed to it in other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
The governor and state Attorney General Rob Bonta also announced the California Department of Justice will offer legal expertise and assistance in prosecuting complex and multi-jurisdictional cases related to the fentanyl operation.
QUESTION: Do you think this plan will work?
Newcsum screwed up SF so much itl never recover and each mayor after him just as pathetic.
So SF has pushed out and supported defund the SFPD now the CHP has to come in and see what they can do.
Newscum is pathetic and doesn’t have a clue except how to destroy everything under his control.
Well with less CHP out there doing what they’re usually supposed to be doing it’s open season on freeway racing..
Saw an absolutely crazy fast speeder on 24 west bound yesterday. Must have been doing close to 100 as I was doing just shy of 70.
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The purpose of the CHP is to patrol highways and freeways to ensure safety, enforce the traffic and vehicle codes, and promote the orderly movement of goods and services on public roads.
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THE CHP DOES NOT EXIST TO BAIL OUT SAN FRANCISCO’S HORRENDOUSLY INEFFECTIVE AND MISGUIDED PUBLIC POLICIES.
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Every time I hear San Francisco mentioned, it reminds me of the song by Spinal Tap: Hell Hole.
i have it on good authority that the CHP is not enthusiastic about being exposed to Fentanyl and head lice. Not many volunteers to go into that hell hole.
Just let them die and the problem solves itself.
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Concur.
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Most of the rational public has “compassion fatigue”. I’m all about helping people who want to be helped… others can dose themselves dead… it’ll be a consequence of their own actions.
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No more compassion because civilized society can no longer be victimized by the derelict.
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No it will not work fentanyl is pouring over our Southern border at record levels the federal government is complicit prosecutors are not prosecuting drug crimes so no this will not work
governor photo OP desperately attempting to be presidential and failing miserably.
Will CHP numbers patrolling our freeways be diminished ? ? ?
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IF he and DEMs in state legislature were serious they would quickly fix damage done by AB-109, Prop 47 and Prop 57. But that would be admitting defeat of their soft on crime experiment.
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This effort, as with almost everything knee jerk DEMs touch will be a dismal failure which they will blame on everyone or everything else but themselves.
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ONLY way CA can be fixed is to vote DEMs out off office.
The “root cause” (they love to say “root cause”) is at the border. If it’s a war on drugs, then treat it like a real war and do what any tactician would suggest: cut off the supply line, blow up the bridge. That means close the border. You know, that thing below San Diego?
Why wait for it to travel 500 miles north and give it an opportunity to get cut, mixed, and multiplied? That will just kill more people.
Perhaps the real goal is to defund the Highway Patrol staff by throwing them under the drug bus. This situation likely makes early retirement look pretty good.
A short term crackdown might disrupt the life of a drug dealer, but not for long. They will move on to another neighborhood, and when the crackdown comes to an end, the dealers will be back, and it will be business as usual. It’s a problem created by the city’s leaders for allowing, and promoting, illegal drug use, and allowing crime to run rampant. As usual, the Libs create a huge mess, then they come up with what they believe to be a clever solution. In reality, it’s only temporary, and too costly in police overtime. The way a liberal mind works is truly baffling.
The CHP belong on the interstate, and state highways.
I’m too disgusted with the situation to voice any further comment.
That is exactly how I feel about our present government state and federal.
Gavin is a career criminal. Destroying the lives of hardworking families by allowing drug addicted violent criminals rape, murder, and steal with no consequences.
Yes absolutely true. But, he’s a privileged career politician, as well, and he bribes the dumb masses into voting for him by giving out government handouts.
The part I need to add is that as career politician, he’s above the law.
Newscum is losing his voters so he must act.
Why bring in outsiders (CHP and national guard)? Why can’t SFPD clean up theirs turf? What is the possibility that some SFPD officers take pad money to look the other way and now newsome bring outsiders to clean up the city.
Because SFPD is told to stand down. Where have you been? You can’t clean anything up when you are not allowed to.
Two places I KNOW drugs are bought, sold, and used–Civic Center BART underground at the end of the station where the trains continue on toward SFO, and on the steps going down to Civic Center BART on the same side of the street as the Strand Theatre. One night I had a surreal experience when a kindly drug dealer put all of his cash in one hand and helped me down the steps with the other, watching that no users’ needles accidently nicked me on the way down.
https://www.gocomics.com/lisabenson/2023/04/29
There is nothing that CHP can do that SFPD can not , open air drug use, safe injection sites(my favorite) no prosecution of users or dealers is the recipe that city officials came up with and now they aren’t happy about the finished product. And I agree with Fearless spectator, catch the cancer early and your chances are much better
Treating the symptoms and at the same time ignoring the disease. That’s what Nancy jr.(aka Gavin) plan basically amounts to. The border must be controlled, to really start to mitigate the problem.
To All Law Enforcement…Be Safe Out There…Much Beloved For Protecting Us.
I am a family member of LE that died in the line of duty.
Don’t forget God always takes care of all Guardians.
I think it’s an Excellent idea. As far a CHP goes. Here’s a link from Fox2 and their own words. https://youtu.be/hk-6TyhUrMY
It won’t make one iota of difference because the same woke SF City Council that handcuffs SFPD won’t change their policy positions.
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The San Francisco Police Department has hemorrhaged more than 330 officers since 2017 and its staffing level of about 1,500 officers falls short of its goal of 2,100 officers.
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Those who believe in law and order really don’t want to work in an municipal environment where lawlessness and uncivilized behavior is accommodated and welcomed by its local officials (like Oakland).
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SF & OAK = Dem-run 5h1t4oles
Where has this idea been… Not even in the Nick of Time, Gavin. Great timing.
Sounds like someone is laying the foundation for a shot at the title of President, and the visual of what SF has become will not be a good look. biden announced he is running, something I think gavvy was not pleased about. While he stated he would not run against biden, in addition to being a low class sleazy scumbag, he is a democrat and a leftist, so I see him tossing the hat into the ring, and with crooked joe not doing any debates, and unable to articulate any position unless by video, gavvy has an open runway to campaign..
More lip service from our illustrious Governor Grease Bag. “What is that crap in his hair?” DEA is responsible for drugs not CHP. What the hell are they going to do? If SFPD cannot do this what good are other agencies? Once again lip service for the left to look good not caring about the result. What a Jackass.
The crap in his hair must be from all the excess sweating he does. When biden was here i noticed he was sniffin around ol Gavin’s sweaty hair.
You Biden shills are hilarious. Perhaps do a little deeper dive in your “research”.
“In the years immediately prior to 2019, China was the primary source of U.S.-bound illicit fentanyl, fentanyl related substances, and production equipment. PRC traffickers supplied fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances directly to the United States via international mail and express consignment operations. Trafficking patterns changed after the PRC imposed class-wide controls over all fentanyl-related substances, effective May 2019. Today, Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are
largely responsible for the production of U.S.-consumed illicit fentanyl, using PRC-sourced primary materials,
including precursor chemicals that are not internationally controlled (and are correspondingly legal to produce in and export out of China). According to DEA assessments cited
by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2021, PRC traffickers and money
launderers appear to have increased cooperation with Mexican cartels.”
And unlike you, I’ll provide my source: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10890