(KRON) – More than 50 arrests were made following a one-day law enforcement operation around San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, the San Francisco Police Department announced on Monday.  

Multiple departments of the San Francisco PD assisted the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center (DMACC) with an operation that aimed to arrest fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants. 

On Wednesday, SFPD made 57 arrests, with 43 individuals having arrest warrants. 

The operation additionally resulted in the seizure of various suspected narcotics, including fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine.

According to SFPD, Mayor London Breed launched the DMACC in May 2023 to dismantle the drug markets in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.

Despite the arrests made, this investigation is ongoing, according to SFPD. Anyone with information is asked to contact the SFPD at (415) 575-4444.

A person was fatally shot Saturday in an alley in San Francisco’s Mission District, the police said.

The shooting was reported around 4 a.m. on Wiese Street, a blocklong alley near Mission and 16th streets.

The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. No identification has been released.

Andrew Barnett, a self-described “coffee freak” and the founder of Linea, which runs its roastery in Potrero Hill, believes both customers and employees care about a company’s impact on the planet these days. 

If someone’s buying a cup of specialty coffee—versus swinging by Starbucks—they want to feel good about who they’re supporting. “It’s important that our coffee is really great, but also that we have purpose,” he said. “If you don’t have a real mission, you’re a dead-end street.” 

Grand’s Silmi also believes that workers and customers care about being grounded in values and community: “It’s very intimate, the relationship that cafes build with their customer base and their community,” he said. You can’t scale that authenticity, he added: “It’s called, ‘selling out.’ And the question, at the end of the day, is who’s willing to sell out and for how much?”

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Although local cafe owners shared similar reasons for embracing slower growth and avoiding outside funding, they all insisted that they don’t begrudge anyone who takes the opposite tack. Frankly, San Francisco is a damn hard place to run a coffee company. 

Costs for rent and adequate wages—as well as inflation’s effect on everything from milk to cups—have continued to balloon.

“It’s just such an expensive place to have a small business,” Rinaldi said. “It’s an expensive place to live.” Juggling costs and profitability while trying to avoid selling “outrageously priced” drinks is a constant struggle, she said.