{"id":2264,"date":"2020-10-21T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:44:11","slug":"san-francisco-drug-overdoses-far-exceed-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Drug Overdoses Far Exceed Covid 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person living in San Francisco is almost three times more likely to die from a drug overdose than from Covid 19, according to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/heatherknight\/article\/Two-deaths-a-day-S-F-drug-overdoses-fueled-by-15635199.php\">story<\/a> by Heather Knight from The San Francisco Chronicle.\u00a0 The city medical examiner handles roughly 2 drug overdose deaths per day, and the 468 who had died so far this year already exceeds the 441 deaths for all of 2019.\u00a0 The city&#8217;s Covid 19 deaths currently total 123.\u00a0\u00a0 As the reporter notes, &#8220;We\u2019re a city that freaks out about a jogger running past without a mask, but doesn\u2019t blink at someone injecting themselves in the neck on a Tenderloin sidewalk.&#8221;\u00a0 Over 2\/3 of the overdoses have been from Fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most progressive city in the nation&#8217;s most progressive state, does not punish drug dealing or most theft and property crimes and does not discourage drug use, which is only a misdemeanor in California anyway. \u00a0 Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin are the primary drivers of drug enforcement policy in the city by the bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person living in San Francisco is almost three times more likely to die from a drug overdose than from Covid 19, according to this story by Heather Knight from The San Francisco Chronicle.\u00a0 The city medical examiner handles roughly 2 drug overdose deaths per day, and the 468 who had died so far this year already exceeds the 441 deaths for all of 2019.\u00a0 The city&#8217;s Covid 19 deaths currently total 123.\u00a0\u00a0 As the reporter notes, &#8220;We\u2019re a city that freaks out about a jogger running past without a mask, but doesn\u2019t blink at someone injecting themselves in the neck on a Tenderloin sidewalk.&#8221;\u00a0 Over 2\/3 of the overdoses have been from Fentanyl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>San Francisco Drug Overdoses Far Exceed Covid 19 - Crime &amp; 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