Could the rest of San Francisco end up as endangered as the Tenderloin District, the city’s notorious open-air drug den?
, Supervisor for the district that includes the Mid-Market area, which is adjacent to the Tenderloin . Dorsey’s office had organized a neighborhood clean-up and the Supervisor had handed the article for volunteers to promote. Dorsey is himself a recovering addict and prior to becoming Supervisor, he was the Communications Director for the San Francisco Police Department. Ridding the neighborhood of drug dealers is his number one priority — a goal he shares with new District Attorney Jenkins.
“Open drug use has been normalized to the point there are blocks where the entire sidewalk is filled with people passed out or getting high,” said Kevin Lee, a San Francisco resident who is in recovery himself. “There is not enough emphasis on creating access to treatment.” Instead, like the rest of the neighborhood, the Whole Foods has become a hotbed of petty crime. According to interviews with workers there, restrooms now include disposal containers for syringes because addicts from the open air drug market that surrounds the building use the toilet stalls as shooting galleries.
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