Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed last month said she said would crack down on open drug dealing.

But yesterday two undercover reporters witnessed brazen drug dealing, as well as drug use, at the city's official, and illegal, homeless "Linkage Center."

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The law allows for reporters to record videos of people in public spaces and the Linkage Center is located in San Francisco’s (public) United Nations Plaza

The article includes photos of the person seen selling drugs and of city contractors observing him inspecting his money.

One of the two brave reporters who reported on San Francisco's illegal, city-funded, supervised drug dealing and drug use site is @JennyGShao

All photos of the illegal activity were pulled from her video.

Please consider following her as thanks for risking her safety.

Please consider reading the piece and subscribing to my Substack to support more independent journalism, including on San Francisco's radical and deadly experiment in subsidizing and enabling drug dealing, drug use, and drug addiction.

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I have increasingly found San Francisco and other cities more harrowing than any other war zone save for that of Congo. If you don't know about Congo, try googling it.

Pulling off such reporting isn't free. It costs time & money.

I thought I took security seriously but we did a protest in the Tenderloin last month and it scared the crap out of me. An @UrbanAlchemyUA employee punched a man in the face a few feet from me. It was my fault. I didn't invest the resources for security in a war zone.

I told my colleagues @JacquiBerlinn and other founding members of @calif_peace that I would not be doing any further on-the-ground activity in the Tenderloin or the open drug markets of San Francisco without resources.

And so I am increasingly charging for subscribers.

Do you care about the takeover of the downtown of America's greatest city by a violent foreign drug cartel?

Do you care about San Francisco subsidizing it through the creation of an illegal, supervised drug dealing & drug use site?

If so then why are you subscribing to publications that *aren't* covering the biggest issue in San Francisco right now, and *not* subscribing to the ONLY PUBLICATION that is?

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CORRECTION: Only *San Francisco Bay Area* publication that is covering the biggest issue in the Bay Area

At least people in the UK want to know what's happening in SF

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If you want us to keep breaking stories and beating every other publication on the planet on reporting the truth about what is happening in San Francisco, even when it offends the Wokes, please subscribe now, and read this bravely reported piece:

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This is just the beginning because we have questions:

Where is the FBI and Department of Justice on San Francisco's flagrant violation of federal drug laws?

Where is the DoJ on San Francisco's violation of the the constitutionally-protected civil rights of the mentally ill?

No civilized nation does what SF is doing with its mentally ill and drug-addicted homeless population

Representatives of Portugal and Netherlands felt the need to make strong statements to me on this issue, given how grossly American activists have misrepresented their nations

Bluntly, Europeans are horrified by what San Francisco is doing

So are Japanese. Have you ever talked to a Japanese visitor who sees San Francisco?

Outsiders don't understand it

They view it as grotesque

The UN denounced SF over THREE YEARS AGO

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I defended Mayor @LondonBreed when she promised an end to the open drug dealing, open drug use, and crime

I took a fair amount of shit for doing so from people who thought I was naive

Apparently they were right and I was wrong

They're not cracking down, they're normalizing

It's not too late for the Mayor and BoS to do the right thing — it never is. They can shut down that heinous supervised drug dealing & drug using site. They can do what civilized countries all do, which is to care for the mentally ill, not enable their addiction.

It's time for business and civic leaders of San Francisco to speak up & support action to fix things.

We need a blue ribbon commission to study how civilized nations deal with mental illness and addiction

We need to copy what works, not fail in new & ever-more twisted ways.

I will never give up on the Mayor, or Board, or SF and will praise them when they say and do the right things and speak up when they say and do the wrong ones

That may sometimes seem inconsistent, since it involves criticizing and praising people from both parties.

But I and my colleagues are being consistent with advocating for the only solution that has ever worked anywhere, which is Shelter First, Treatment First, and Housing Earned.

Plus, we are advocating that we enforce our laws, & make rehab/psych care an alternative, not optional.

When the Mayor says she'll do what every civilized nation has done, (e.g. disallow massive and violent open air markets for highly intoxicating, addictive, and deadly drugs), we will applaud her.

When the Mayor allows radical Left activists posing as "public health experts" to create a supervised open air drug dealing and drug use zone in a public square, we will expose it for being a bizarre, irresponsible, and unprecedented social experiment.

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