Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Three years ago, San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed announced a plan to defund the police. Now, with the city short 540 police officers, and a rapidly growing area controlled by violent drug dealers, the mayor is finally asking the federal government to help.

“We are in the midst of an unprecedented police staffing shortage… drug dealers have become increasingly aggressive... Violence and shootings surround these brazen open-air drug dealing scenes.” — @LondonBreed

In the fall of 2021, when HarperCollins published my book, “San Fransicko,” calling for more police, more mandatory rehab, and a crackdown on drug dealing, the local news media refused to even review it, choosing instead to denounce me, repeatedly, for supposed “misinformation”

California lawmakers, led by Senators @Scott_Wiener (SF) @NancySkinnerCA (Berkeley), blocked an effort by @CapeloutoMatt , whose daughter was killed by fentanyl, to hold drug dealers accountable for the thousands of people they are killing.

I wrote one of the most widely-discussed book on drugs & homelessness. I’m in a CNN documentary about San Francisco. I frequently testify before Congress.

And yet my own Senator, @NancySkinnerCA, who I’ve known for 25 years, won’t let me testify in Sacramento about the crisis.

My proposal is about as mainstream as it gets. Shut down the open air drug markets. Mandate drug rehab. Universal psychiatric care.

public.substack.com/p/dr-phil-and-…

Rather than be honest about the problem, California leaders
claim that the worsening crime and homelessness results from a lack of housing rather than a lack of police.

public.substack.com/p/i-confront-s…

The good news is that brave parents like @CapeloutoMatt @JacquiBerlinn @GMcDee2 , recovering addicts like @Twolfrecovery , and community leaders like @elleneg & @michelletandler are calling out the politicians for their cruel, idiotic, and deadly policies.

https://twitter.com/Twolfrecovery/status/1641992646167248898

We are building a broad, nonpartisan, and evidence-based movement of parents, recovering addicts, and community leaders to demand practical, proven, and humane solutions.

californiapeacecoalition.org

Our movement is rapidly growing across North America. We are inspired by the successes in The Netherlands, Portugal, and Alberta, to shut down open air drug dealing and mandate treatment to addicts who break the law. Please DM me directly to get involved.

northamericarecovers.org