Gatherings of habitual drug users and dealers that used to occur primarily on Sixth Street and in the Tenderloin have shifted to other neighborhoods thanks to the mayor and SFPD’s “cleanup” efforts, and neighbors on one Mission District alley held a protest about it.
There was a rally Thursday on Julian Avenue in the Mission where residents say they are fed up with the recent uptick in open-air drug use and vagrancy that moved onto their alley — which is a half-block away from Mission Street and intersects with 16th Street. As the Chronicle reports, a group of about 50 residents from the area gathered with signs saying things like “Drug Enablism Kills” and “Drug-Free Sidewalks,” and called on the mayor and police department to stop the game of Whac-a-Mole that has most recently shifted illegal activity to their block.
One longtime Julian Avenue resident, Amilcar Cortez, tells the paper, “It seems like everything they do is just temporary. They’re doing something, but it’s not effective.”…