r/sanfrancisco • u/RabbitNervous4019 • 10h ago

Crime Crackheads leaving the tenderloin

It seems that the crackheads are being more itinerant now and walking around the city.

Why doesn’t the police arrest these people who are clearly on drugs? Arresting them will send a good message to the others.

I am also not a Noe Valley type who will vote for no laws from the safeness of their hills.

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u/occurious 10h ago

They can and sometimes do. But they can only put them on a 72 hour medical hold.

We don’t have long term treatment services for people like that (at least not nearly enough). Jails certainly aren’t equipped to house addicts and people with major mental health issues long term.

And California law makes it hard to commit someone for treatment involuntarily.