San Francisco continues to resist the hard choice of actual law enforcement. If they wait just a little longer, the zombie apocalypse problem will solve itself, they’re hoping. The city is solidly “on track to hit 845 overdose fatalities in 2023.” That, it’s been reported, far surpasses the record.
Law enforcement considered
San Francisco is beginning to consider law enforcement as an option to battle their zombie apocalypse. Enabling the street addicts has enough of them falling over to be alarming but not enough to end the growing demand for fentanyl.
That means the problem won’t be solving itself any time in the foreseeable future. The city’s chief medical examiner recently reported some statistics.
The absolute state of San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/vPJNOEmZna
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 21, 2023
“Former drug user and current recovery advocate” Tom Wolf doesn’t need to see the numbers. “There’s so much fentanyl that it’s contaminated other drugs sold on the street like meth and crack cocaine. It’s in everything.”
Currently, there’s an average of three overdose deaths a day. Law enforcement is terrified to step foot inside certain neighborhoods, like the Tenderloin district.
“I see suffering and despair on many blocks,” Wolf relates. As the urban center is abandoned by commercial offices and retailers, the zombies have infested miles of sidewalk. There are “literally thousands of people in tents or on the street” who “are almost all using meth and fentanyl.”
The mayor sent in the California Highway Patrol and the National Guard to provide law enforcement but they are far outnumbered and ineffective. They arrest some of the dealers and a prosecutor is actually prosecuting them, lately. She begs the judge to keep them behind bars and the judge says “nope.” They’re back out on the street selling zombie chow before the sun goes down.
Ready to quit
Georgia Taylor, “a 32-year-old fentanyl user,” told her tale of woe to the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s crazy, so sad out here, it’s like a zombie apocalypse. I’ve been clean before, and I so, so want to get clean again before I overdose and die. But it’s so hard.” Law enforcement is invisible.
All that matters are the zombies. There are a lot of zombies. “You can find 100 people out here who have 100 different reasons for using, and we all have to be ready to quit before it will work.” She lost her kids to social services.
One of the local unlicensed opiate dispensers wasn’t shy about talking to the press. He’s just a business man out to make a living in fat stacks. He doesn’t see any law enforcement around so he’ll keep collecting pictures of presidents.
Record overdose deaths last month in Democrat-run San Francisco.
We’ll be advancing a bill next week in the Judiciary Committee to address this crisis, since local leaders won’t do so themselves. https://t.co/r6QzkGCVSq
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 22, 2023
“I don’t give a f— about the overdoses,” he declares, “while handing fentanyl to a woman for $10.” Those Alexander Hamiltons add up. “You make your choice to put that s— in your mouth. That’s your business. I need to make my money.”
Fentanyl user Will Krtek does his part to help the local community. Until law enforcement comes in and cleans up the problem he’ll continue to serve as volunteer paramedic. He “saved a user’s life last week after noticing him lying sprawled on the sidewalk.” He’s got the procedure down cold. “Somebody help! Bring some Narcan,” Krtrek yelled “before giving the overdosing user chest compressions.”
That, he informs, “was the fourth person he’d saved over a week and a half.” According to advocate Tom Wolf, it is “going to require the city to start making hard choices of what to do which includes more enforcement, intervention and mandated treatment for those breaking the law to support their addiction.“
