In response to the public’s “countless” complaints about drug activity, San Francisco police have increased their enforcement of low-level crimes, chief Bill Scott said at a police commission meeting Wednesday evening.
Open air drug use in parts of the city has been a “constant and ongoing issue” for the department, Scott said. In the last couple of months, police have made arresting large groups in publicized raids part of their strategy.
“We’re seeing a cultural shift with the lower-level drug offenses,” Scott said. “Those are the types of offenses that the public is, quite frankly, just fed up with.”…