The San Francisco Police Department admitted Thursday that its drug interdiction efforts are displacing dealing from one neighborhood to another.
Commander Derrick Lew, who oversees the city’s drug task force, said at a public hearing that moving users from one neighborhood to another—say, from the Tenderloin to 16th and Mission—is “a known symptom of the plain fact that we don’t have the resources to blanket the entire city.”
He talked about, for example, blanketing Union Square with cops, but said that “success in that area will mean displacement.”…