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A look at San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis crackdown 1 month after receiving Gov. Newsom’s aid
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Monday, June 5, 2023 12:45AM
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — It has been one month since Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to send in the California Highway Patrol and National Guard to help crackdown on San Francisco’s open-air drug markets.
Saturday we hit the streets to get a look at the impact and what comes next in the battle against the fentanyl crisis.
CHP is teaming up with SFPD to target the Tenderloin and South of Market districts, while the National Guard works behind the scenes analyzing intelligence.
Mixed reaction to Gov. Newsom’s plans to combat San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis
Tara Campbell: “Supervisor Dorsey we’re in your backyard here, and this is one of the areas CHP was going to be or has been really paying attention to. Have you seen a difference out here?
Sup. Matt Dorsey: “You know, I would say not really. We’re in a situation right now where we’re seeing a level of drug use and drug dealing that’s unprecedented.”
San Francisco is seeing two drug overdose deaths a day — on pace for the deadliest year yet, amid the drug overdose crisis.
And Dorsey says it’s going to take more time and resources before seeing an impact. Right now, he says just six CHP officers are on the streets but believes more support is on the way.
“I did talk with the chief of police today. He feels it is helpful having CHP lending some support in a uniformed presence, because that’s giving San Francisco police — at a time when it’s significantly understaffed — the ability to deploy those resources to narcotics operations,” Dorsey said.
Here’s a look at SF ‘Wellness Hubs’ plan, which could include safe consumption sites
And it’s opening up resources to start arresting drug users.
The supervisor confirmed that SFPD arrested 16 people using drugs in the past week for public intoxication.
“I think it is an approach that I will support, so long as we’re making an intervention that’s more than just jail,” Dorsey said.
“What’s that going to do, it’s just going to create more problems?” said Randal, who is addicted to Fentanyl and says arresting people like him isn’t the answer.
“We get out and we’re worse. What does that do? It teaches us to be sneakier and bigger criminals. We don’t need that. We need compassion,” he added.
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San Francisco police respond to stabbing along Pride parade route; 1 injured
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San Francisco police said a man was stabbed on the 500 block of Market Street around 11:20 a.m.
According to police, officers saw the stabbing and gave first aid to the victim.
Officers detained a possible suspect. No information about the suspect was released by police.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 415-575-4444.
San Francisco, CA
SOURCE SPORTS: Latin Baseball Legend, San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda Dies at 86 – The Source
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Orlando Cepeda, the San Francisco Giants first baseman nicknamed “The Baby Bull,” died Friday in his home. He was 86.
“MLB mourns the passing of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda at the age of 86,” Major League Baseball tweeted. “Known as ‘Cha-Cha’ and ‘The Baby Bull,’ Cepeda slugged 379 home runs, batted .297, and made 11 All-Star teams over 17 seasons. He was unanimously selected as the NL Rookie of the Year in 1958 with the Giants. He was also a unanimous selection for the the NL MVP Award in 1967 when he helped lead the Cardinals to the World Series championship.”
Cepeda was the son of Puerto Rican baseball player Perucho Cepeda, who was not allowed to play in the major leagues because he was Black. Cepeda’s own career began after Pedro Zorilla convinced his family to send him to the United States to try out for the then-New York Giants. He passed the team’s tryout but was sent to the Salem Rebels.
The San Francisco Giants brought Cepeda onboard in 1958, and he closed out his first season as the National League Rookie of the Year. After spending a few more seasons with the Giants, Cepeda was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966. Though he was named the National League Comeback Player of the Year after his first season, his performance suffered throughout the following two seasons and he was traded to the Atlanta Braves in 1969.
Cepeda retired from baseball in 1974. He was arrested at San Juan International Airport for drug possession the following year after he attempted to pick up two boxes containing marijuana that had been flown in from Colombia. Cepeda served 9 months of a 5 year sentence, but was never able to fully shed his criminal conviction.
Cepeda was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
The baseball great was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 17, 1937. Despite his father’s success in baseball, the family grew up “very poor,” he said in an interview. “My father [legendary player Pedro Cepeda]… was a great baseball player. In those days, a black player didn’t have a chance to play in the big leagues,” Cepeda explained. “So my dad used to go to Cuba, used to go to Dominican Republic, Venezuela… I think he went to Mexico one year.”
Cepeda’s survivors include his wife Nydia and 5 sons, Hector, Orlando Jr., Carl, Malcolm and Ali.
San Francisco, CA
4th of July parade held at San Francisco's Great Highway for 1st time in decades
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A revived San Francisco tradition.
People in the Sunset District marched down the Great Highway on Saturday for the inaugural “Oceanside Fourth of July Parade.”
It’s been decades since the city had a July 4th parade.
Two bands, 25 dancers as well as several parents and kids took part.
Inside effort to bring Fourth of July parade back to San Francisco for first time in decades
Supervisor Joel Engardio organized the event because he says it is time the City had its own Fourth of July parade.
“An event like this tells the world, we are not a doom loop. It tells the world that we have a lot of joy, and we are creating more of it. And, we are imaginative or innovative, and we are going to create our best San Francisco,” Engardio said.
Organizers had the parade on June 29 to make sure people who already made holiday plans could attend.
The supervisor says the plan is to have this on July 4th, next year.
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