It seemed like more of the same Thursday in San Francisco's Tenderloin, less than a week after Gov. Newsom announced he's bringing in the California National Guard to help dismantle fentanyl trafficking.
"It would be great if it could be cleaned up a little more," said Ashley Richmond of St. Louis, visiting San Francisco for a week-long RSA cybersecurity conference at Moscone Center in the South of Market."It’s hard not to see them yes, but it’s been really surprisingly cleaner than I thought, and there’s been a lot of police around to make me feel safe," Richmond said.Daniel Price, a Canadian also attending the conference, was last in the city five years ago.
Asked if anything has changed, Price said, "Yeah, it’s worse. The homeless. The homeless problem is worse."He said, "There’s a big drug problem, housing problem. We need to invest more in preventing that kind of thing instead of reacting.""I really don't see a role for the National Guard in San Francisco. We've got challenges but not challenges that rise to militarization."Supervisor Aaron Peskin said, "I don’t see any National Guard.
Peskin couldn't resist a dig at Newsom: "This wouldn’t be the first time that the governor shot from the lip.""What we need is better coordination, not militarization," Peskin said. Supervisor Matt Dorsey posted a tweet saying "The cavalry is coming" the day of Newsom's announcement. "I would say you know, let’s give them time," Dorsey said Thursday. "‘The cavalry’ is sort of a metaphor.""The governor has said he does not foresee a role for the National Guard in any sort of patrolling or highly visible, militaristic way. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a role to play to assist city government," Dorsey said.
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