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San Francisco DA’s drug program directs users to treatment — but they’re not showing up​

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A new program aimed at curbing unfettered drug use on the streets of San Francisco is directing users to treatment — but they aren’t showing up.

Under pressure to address the spreading blight, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins launched an initiative that increased misdemeanor drug arrests and sent repeat offenders to an alternative court.

If the defendants accept treatment and other services, the charges are settled.

But the first three participants in the program skipped out on their appearances and now have warrants out for their arrest, according to the San Franciso Chronicle.

Critics — including the city’s Public Defender’s Office — opposed Jenkins’ plan, arguing that addicts, many of whom are homeless and mentally ill, were unlikely to comply with its terms.

The initiative is “the least effective way to have a person who is unhoused, mentally ill and/or struggling with substance use disorder engage in treatment is to issue them a ticket,” ‘ Deputy Public Defender Vilaska Nguyen said.

“We’re never going to solve the addiction crisis with arbitrary and coercive approaches,” he added.
“Open-air drug dealing and unchecked public drug use is ripping our city apart; people struggling with substance use disorder are dying on our streets while neighborhoods are being held hostage by brazen drug dealers and traffickers,” she said last week, according to the Chronicle.


San Francisco drug arrests have increased in recent weeks, with 51 busts since May 30, the outlet reported.


Jenkins continued to defend the program Wednesday.
moocow said:
Whole family's got the mind-virus. At least it won't spread biologically now.
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That's the funny thing-she actually chased after the guys to try to take her purse back. Makes you wonder if she would've pressed charges if she survived. But she's dead now and her family has decided virtue signalling>justice.
 
If you think shit is bad in Faggot & Druggie Hobo Central now, its about to get worse because now they will have to deal with the city sober

Historic Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco ceasing operations; Will liquidate assets

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A landmark company in San Francisco has turned off its taps after 127 years.

Anchor Brewing Company officials announced early Wednesday that it will cease operations and liquidate the business -- established in 1896 -- citing economic factors including declining sales since 2016.

The company gave employees 60-day notices "with the intent to provide transition support and separation packages in line with company practices and policies," according to the announcement from company spokesperson Sam Singer.

"This was an extremely difficult decision that Anchor reached only after many months of careful evaluation," Singer said in the announcement. "We recognize the importance and historic significance of Anchor to San Francisco and to the craft brewing industry, but the impacts of the pandemic, inflation, especially in San Francisco, and a highly competitive market left the company with no option but to make this sad decision to cease operations."

Anchor recently announced it would limit sales of Anchor beers to California and that it would cut production of its Anchor Christmas Ale.

The announcement reports that Anchor has stopped brewing and will continue packaging and distributing the beer on hand while available or through around the end of July. Anchor Public Taps will remain open temporarily, selling remaining inventory, including a small volume of 2023 Anchor Christmas Ale, which was brewed prior to the company's recent decision to cancel the nationwide release.

"Anchor has invested great passion and significant resources into the company," Singer said. "Unfortunately, today's economic pressures have made the business no longer sustainable, and we had to make the heartbreaking decision to cease operations."

Singer said the company is negotiating to file for bankruptcy under federal Chapter 7 or 11.

The news has left locals and beer enthusiasts feeling nostalgic and saddened.

"It's sad. It's the end of an era," said Steve Comb, a San Francisco resident who has worked near the brewery for 15 years. He recalled fond memories of enjoying Anchor Steam, the brewery's flagship beer, before attending Grateful Dead concerts in the 1970s.

"I think back to the 1970s when Fritz Maytag first bought Anchor Steam," said Comb. "It was my first craft beer that we had, and we used to drink it before we would go to see the Grateful Dead play in Winterland."

Based in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, the company describes itself as the nation's first craft brewery. It was acquired by Sapporo USA in 2017.

On Tuesday, employees received an email to join its president for a meeting Wednesday morning about the company's direction.

"It's a really sad day for the employees," Singer said. "There are 61 of them, including loyal union members. We are doing our very best to take care of them."

Ahead of Wednesday's announcement, some loyal customers were feeling anxious about the signs pointing to the company shutting down.

"Even before I lived in California, everyone knows Anchor Steam, so it's sort of an American institution and it seems like a shame if that goes away," said Kris Leifur, who regularly joins friend Kris Leifur at Anchor Public Taps on De Haro Street.

"I wanted to cry," Sartori said of her first reaction to the potential closure. "It's such an institution, the city needs to keep this alive, so many other things are dying here, somebody needs to come in and save it."

Last month, Anchor Brewing said it would significantly cut its distribution and cancel its signature Christmas beer, a longtime tradition.

"The fact that they're not going to make these beers anymore is just insane to me, if that happens, I will be devastated," said Leifer. "Going to need to build a vault and start stockpiling."

"Revolt," said Sartori as she laughed. "It's going to be sad, it's going to be awful."

Even though Anchor is going to end up in the hands of a liquidation company, Singer hopes something could save the brand and its legacy.

"We hope that someone could come along and buy Anchor as we enjoy it today, but it's quite possible that it will be sold in pieces," said Singer. "We can only hope for the best. San Francisco's flag is a phoenix rising from the ashes; hopefully the same will be true for Anchor."

Comb agrees. He thinks this is not related to the increasing number of businesses leaving the city.

"Cities and societies move ahead," said Comb. "Sometimes is two steps forward and one step back but I am optimistic on the long term."
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Oh no this absolutely terrible! And so random. They didn't hire a tranny as a spokesperson and piss off their base. I wonder what could have possibly happened to a old, long running business to send it into the shitter like this? The mind truly boggles.

In 2017, Anchor was purchased by Sapporo for $85 million. In 2018, several workers at Anchor, among them Brace Belden, formed an organizing committee and coordinated with the DSA chapter in San Francisco to develop a plan for unionization with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

In 2019, Anchor Brewing workers voted to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union making Anchor Brewing – including Anchor Public Taps, the brewery's on-site brew pub – the first unionized craft brewery in the United States. The three-year union contract was officially ratified in 2020, providing workers with increased wages, health insurance, and other benefits.

In 2023, union efforts to renew the existing contract were stalled, with Sapporo delaying negotiations. Soon after, Anchor announced it would no longer distribute nationally and would cease production of its signature Christmas Ale. On July 12, 2023 Sapporo announced it was ceasing operations at Anchor and liquidating the business.
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Oh.

And now, you moment of cope.
Comb agrees. He thinks this is not related to the increasing number of businesses leaving the city.
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Whelp, I returned from my visit to San Francisco and I'm extremely unhappy to report it's as discussed. The streets are dead, in the less premium tourist locations the shops and restaurants are closed. Empty stores throughout the CBD and the ones that are open have clear signs of crime. Cleared shelves of certain items, one book shop I went in had to hide stock. who the fuck robs a book shop?

Crazies wandering the streets and about 6 tramps enjoying a bowl-party on the curb about 20 foot from my expensive hotel.

It's sad to see. Someone needs to get a grip of this drug epidemic and fast. I won't be revisiting until I know things have improved. Breaks my heart, I love this city
 
I guess we'll watch with nostalgia and melancholy old movies and tv shows set in San Francisco like Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Too Close to Comfort, etc to remember when SF wasn't worse than Detroit.
 
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It's sad to see. Someone needs to get a grip of this drug epidemic and fast. I won't be revisiting until I know things have improved. Breaks my heart, I love this city
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As long as SF is filled with cuckolds and karens and soft minded boomers, being led by a kiked leadership class, that see police arresting niggers as equivalent to the actions of Unit 731.

Nothing changes.
 
Super-Chevy454 said:
I guess we'll watch with nostalgia and melancholy old movies and tv shows set in San Francisco like Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Too Close to Comfort, etc to remember when SF wasn't worse than Detroit.
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It's funny (well, sad, really) I was re-watching The Enforcer (Dirty Harry 3) the other day, and it's like you can see the foundations of today's SF being laid in that movie. Harry is basically prescient to an uncanny level.

Also, Hammers of Misfortune called it like 15 years ago. Fucking nailed everything right in this song.

 
Imagine being brutally murdered and then having your equally dumb relatives beg that you receive no justice at all because of so-called “harm reduction”.

This is what /Pol/ meant when they said leftists do not love their own family members. IMG_1802.png IMG_1803.jpeg
Got no sympathy for the anarchist baker for the same reason I have no sympathy for Tibbetts; they both voted for their early graves.
 
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Its amazing what happens when you actually crack down on hobos and TNB, and don't like wildin' chimps and wiggers torch your downtown because a drug addict dies in custody in another state.

I have heard they also learned from cities like Nashville where the pick a run-down neighborhood or satellite city and tell the ghetto trash "We are cleaning up downtown. But if you move there, you can get up to whatever drugland shit you want to without the cops hassling you"; accurate?
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No, not really. That's still a problem in places like Hamtramck, Troy, Kettering, Royal Oak, et al, as well as the "$1 Homes" sections of Detroit. Downtown Detroit is more or less the 5000 feet of river frontage facing Windsor on the Detroit River, and a about a mile and a half deep. The rest of it is still an ashtray, but the places where you'd expect to see people in suits are nice.

The City does absolutely nothing for the people who are too poor to pay their absolutely ludicrous property taxes. I mentioned $1 homes already, but even the most run down piece of shit fire damaged house in suburban Detroit on a 4000 sq ft lot is going to cost you $12,000 a year in property taxes. The City is still running that grift, and the people they're charging aren't paying. If Detroit really wants to be better, it's got to lower the taxes to a realistic level.

Additionally, Michigan itself barely has homeless people, because they usually freeze to death in the winter, and the people of the midwest are generally friendly and welcoming until you're a burden. Nobody gives money to panhandlers, and they're more likely to beat the shit out of you for trying, which is especially true in a place like Detroit, where nobody has money to begin with.
 
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I stopped going up to the City a few years ago. Despite how much people mocked it, San Francisco even in 2017 still had most of its charm; people jogging down by Fisherman's Wharf, picturesque as the 50s, even though the homeless in the Metro and in the Tenderloin were piling up, much more brazen about shooting up openly, etc; you could completely avoid these few areas and most of the rest of the city was fine.

By 2019, things were so bad they had constructed wooden barriers so that you didn't have to look at the streets on your way from the CalTrain to the SoMa business area. I haven't gone back, except passing through to NorCal, just 280 to the 1 through Inner Sunset (iron bars and barren but hey, you live in the city, right?), past Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, and over the Golden Gate into Tiburon. Once you're past Inner Sunset, you don't much have to look at the City at all.

Down here in Silicon Valley, we've had a spate of homeless people breaking into cars and apartment complexes. For a while, a catalytic converter ring was running pretty wild. Now, we hear of a few cases where people approach your neighbors when you're not home and ask if they can get into your house "to retrieve their Apple Watch". There were a lot of breakins up peninsula when I first moved here also.

It really isn't too bad, not here in the middle burbs, where most of the homes are occupied by older people. The worst I've ever dealt with was people blasting their speedsters down the empty roads during Covid. I thank God, of course, that we've been blessed so far as to not yet experience any of the madness, not even here in liberal California, not even in the shadow of Big Tech. But it's declining. It's getting worse. It's fit to bust
 
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