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-Great Cultural Revolution

Shocking video shows elementary school kids in San Francisco getting off bus and being forced to pick their way through crowd of homeless drug addicts shooting up in broad daylight

2022-07-10

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Ricci Wynne, 37, a self-described recovering addict, posts videos of San Francisco's open-air drug market

This one shows elementary school kids filing off a bus in the Golden Gate city at 8th Street and Mission past dozens of sickly users nodding out on the sidewalk

Wynne says the government's permissive drug policies have failed and his videos are taken to bring awareness and take back the streets of San Francisco

In December, Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency because of the rampant drug use in the Tenderloin District

The open-air drug den in the video which the young children are forced to walk through is just a block away from the city's notorious taxpayer-funded Linkage Center, which quickly became a site for addicts to take illicit drugs on the street in broad daylight.

The Tenderloin Linkage Center was set up in January in a bid to direct the city's homeless drug addicts towards services that could help them, including medical care and rehab.

It was opened after Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin district and calling for police to crackdown on open drug uses and dealing.

The site, which is said to have cost $19 million in taxpayer cash, treated just one in every 1,000 users and failed to cut fatal overdose numbers. Only 0.1 percent of those using the site Between January and April, just 18 of the 23,367 drug users who visited the site were referred for treatment.

Furthermore, the rate of fatal overdoses has not declined in a meaningful way: in January the office of the chief medical examiner reported 49 deaths, and last month there were 45.

And the center even went on to quietly drop the word 'linkage' from its title, because so few of the drug abusers who visited were being linked to any meaningful form of help.

After fierce backlash, the center will close by the end of the year after Breed said its lease will not be renewed.

Instead, Breed has talked about opening up a 'safe consumption site', and proposed spending $4 million on projects in the Tenderloin next year such as street or park improvements.

Last month, the city's district attorney, Chesa Boudin, was recalled after voters lost faith with his progressive policies.

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