It's almot 1000 a year. There's probably <10k homeless and 2-3k addicts on the street. Total addict population is significantly larger, but it still seems like a significant fraction of the total. I'm not sure I buy the article's claim that most of this is happening on the street since the growth of SROs (and closing of the overdose center) seem to provide privacy that allows more overdoses, but the boom in fentanyl (now tranq) seems to keep coming.
I'm not sure there are simple solutions to this that don't have side effects. Mostly, the goal seems to be to move it out of sight, and to be fair many of the people came to SF on bus tickets provided by other localities with the same goal. At the same time there's a level of permission in some areas that doesn't seem to change (kind of like the smash and grabs in all the tourist areas) what ever they say about law and order.
It's not like police have been motivated to do much about it for at least the last 30 years.
I'm not sure there are simple solutions to this that don't have side effects. Mostly, the goal seems to be to move it out of sight, and to be fair many of the people came to SF on bus tickets provided by other localities with the same goal. At the same time there's a level of permission in some areas that doesn't seem to change (kind of like the smash and grabs in all the tourist areas) what ever they say about law and order.
It's not like police have been motivated to do much about it for at least the last 30 years.