( KRON ) — As San Francisco continues to battle illegal drug markets that pop up throughout the city, the San Francisco Police Department announced that officers took dozens of suspected drug offenders into custody Wednesday night.
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San Francisco police said their mobile command van has a 24-hour visible presence at 16th and Mission streets, in the city’s Mission District neighborhood, to “ensure the area is safe and clean.”
In this latest slew of arrests, police said officers nabbed 23 individuals in the area on various drug charges. It is not yet known if this was a planned drug arrest operation.
In a SFPD video post on X, formerly Twitter, Police Chief Bill Scott said, “the mission is clear and concise is to have an SFPD presence on this plaza where we’ve had all kinds of problems: vending, drug use, drug sales. The one thing we know from our experience is that when we’re here, and we have a presence here, those problems seem to be far fewer.”…