Democratic mayoral candidates are engaging in games of one-upmanship by launching conservative-sounding plans to increase law enforcement and force people into addiction treatment.
San Francisco Interim Mayor Mark Farrell speaks to reporters after being sworn into office at City Hall in San Francisco, on Jan. 23, 2018. | Joel Angel Juarez/APSAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco mayoral candidate Mark Farrell said Thursday that, if elected, he will ask California to send more armed National Guard troops into downtown to fight the city’s open-air drug markets.
Farrell, a former interim mayor and city supervisor, doesn’t see that shift or his aggressive policies in terms of ideology. Rather, he said, it’s a necessary response to soaring drug-related deaths, including at least“I don’t believe that it’s progressive or compassionate to allow a record number of overdose deaths on our streets every single year,” Farrell said.
The rightward push speaks to voters’ growing frustration with the city’s decaying street conditions — as well as the major influence of tech-funded,that have fueled the shift toward more coercive public-safety and addiction policies.
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