{"id":149196,"date":"2023-10-30T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149196"},"modified":"2023-10-29T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:58:15","slug":"the-end-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149196","title":{"rendered":"The end is nigh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I mean the Biblical-style end. End of times, Hell freezing over – you know, the unimaginable.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s in process. A task force in San Francisco, California, long the looniest tune on the Left Coast, is doing something sensible.<\/p>\n

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A new task force for San Francisco\u2019s opioid crisis will empower law enforcement to investigate fatal drug overdoses as homicides,\u00a0enabling prosecutors to charge dealers with murder, California\u00a0Gov. Gavin Newsom and city officials announced\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n

The task force will treat opioid deaths in San Francisco like homicide cases in the way it documents deaths, gathers evidence and processes intelligence to map out crime syndicates, the governor\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Authorities want to particularly target fentanyl dealers, and they could potentially be charged with murder, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dunno about you, but to me that seems logical and sensible. Dealer sells an illegal substance which kills someone… why NOT treat it as a homicide? I mean, it’s not maybe as extreme as sticking one in the dealer’s ear after a fair trial, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Not all agree:<\/p>\n

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Tracy McCray, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, said the opioid crisis \u201chas steadily squeezed the life out of our city\u201d and is not a new problem.<\/p>\n

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US overdose deaths continue their rise, data shows, with \u2018devastating impact\u2019 on population<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

McCray said officers currently can\u2019t respond to all 911 calls immediately or fully investigate all crimes, \u201cbecause we are down 600 officers from where the Department and voters say we should be and based on SFPD\u2019s data, next year we will be down 700 officers. That is the crisis that needs to be addressed immediately and aggressively.\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Think we can all agree it’s not a complete solution, but at least it is a step in the right direction – and the more dealers you get off the streets, logically one would think the less crime, the less that officer shortage is as big a problem.<\/p>\n

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Mano Raju, San Francisco\u2019s public defender, called the task force \u201canother step in the wrong direction toward the continued revival of the failed War on Drugs in SF.\u201d<\/p>\n

His office urged leaders to \u201cprioritize evidence-based public health strategies rather than throwing more public resources at a punitive approach that has failed time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Says the man whose job depends on crime perpetuating itself. His approach has helped LAND them in this mess – think his opinion is irrelevant.\u00a0 And why has a punitive approach failed? We never really punished the criminal dealers. Not if they are still breathing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean the Biblical-style end. End of times, Hell freezing over – you know, the unimaginable. … The end is nigh!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,478,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-none","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}