Day 109 at the 16th St. Plaza: Impact of a drug bust appears minimal here

As visitors arrived at the 16th Street BART Station and headed to Dolores Park on Saturday for the Dyke March, another universe persisted on Mission Street.

Unpermitted vendors on the commercial corridor still outnumbered drug users at 2 p.m., but if past is prelude, that will change as the afternoon wears on. No one talked about what the San Francisco Police Department announced earlier this week as San Francisco’s“ largest one-day, fugitive-focused enforcement in recent history.”

On Wednesday, 97 arrests were made, including 79 individuals with outstanding arrest warrants, according to a press release from the SFPD. “During the arrests, officers located and seized a total of 16.5 g of suspected narcotics, including suspected fentanyl, cocaine base and methamphetamine.”…

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