Now i want to take you back on all of these trips. We begin in San Francisco. Now, what i have seen happen to that wonderful city is just nothing short of Heart Breaking. How long would it take me to get crack. Under a minute. How about heroin . Same thing. Fentanyl . Same. Easy to get . Very easy to get. Laura less than two years ago, i was right here in the Tenderloin District here in San Francisco. Its an open air drug market. We decided to come back to see whether things have improved or gotten worse. Within the past week three shootings one resulted in an ahomicide. One resulted in another person being shot and another resulted in a car being shot up. Laura just in district. Yeah. Just in this district. Lieutenant tracy mcrae has been with the San FranciscoPolice Department for nearly 30 years after spending 11 in the army. This is ground zero here in the Tenderloin District for hard core drug addicts in the area, correct . Right. I mean, you just take a look around and you see people addicted to fentanyl, crystal meth, you know, heroin, you got your Crack Cocaine still. But you got your ga garden variy of all the type of drugs. This is where you will find people on all of these different drugs just walking around. Youre going to go down the street and you are going to see someone who is shooting up. Laura right in broad daylight. Right in broad daylight. While its tempting to turn your heads away from the Human Sadness and suffering on these streets, i decided to speak firsthand with those in the grips of addiction. Laura how old are you . Im 38 years old. I have family. I have a husband. I have children. Laura you got to get clean, maam. You got get clean. I have to get clean. But since i have been on the street, because i just barely started using fentanyl. Laura where are you getting the fentanyl. I buy it from off the street from people. But, to me, fentanyl has been like on or about like something helping keep me alive. It helps me not think about some of the trauma that i have been through. When i dont get it like, i cant breathe sometime or have anxiety really bad. But when i have it, like i immediately calm down. I immediately calm down. Laura okay. The human need is great. After seeing this firsthand, its going to take a lot more police and a lot more creative thinking to get this situation cleaned up. How Many Police Officers in the city . Currently right now 580. Laura you are down 50580. Down 580 officers. What would this poor guy . Fully staffed police force could be out here connecting with people trying to get them connected to services. We need those partners out here, too. Thats the thing. They all say we get all this money billion dollars organization. Get all this money bore where do you see the boots on the ground from the Community Organizations out here trying to help that man trying to help that man across the street. Trying to help that lady in the doorway. Trying to help that man wrapped in a blanket. Where are they . See, thats my problem. Where are they . Laura so your point is off the street your choice is jail or treatment, thats it. Thats it. Those are the only two choices you get. Laura right now, what happens . You get none of that. You get to stay out here and do. Laura you can just live out here and do as much drugs as you want . Yeah. The injunction about Clearing Tents and Homeless Encampments. Laura you cant clear it out. You cant do that, no. They want us to but we cant do it by law, right . A judge says no. And unless you can provide a bed for every person you see out here. And my whole thing is when did that fall on us . Thats not my issue. Right . Like i get i am my brothers keeper but, damn, how much keeping does one person have to do for another adult who makes these choices . Thats the other thing here nobody ever talks about. These are adults who are making choices to be out here to do this. Laura lieutenant mccrea knows all too well the dangers of having a department stretched to thin as an officer and even herself one time the victim of crime. Police are not the solution. We cant be the only solution. And until people want to make these hard decisions and tell people no, then this will continue to happen. You will see this and get back in two years and it will be much years. In 2020 mayor london breed cut 1 million for police and sheriffs departments in the city directing to direct disparities in the black community. Three years later she wants to give more money and even call the National Guard in to deal with the drug issue. Do you know what it actually means its a division of their Intelligence Unit helping gather information to try and stem the flow of where these drugs are, identifying, you know, but its not boots on the ground being its not what it is. Its the chb coming and helping maybe do traffic stops maybe if they do a traffic stop stop that it doesnt mean by any stretch of the imagination up and down these streets. Laura will it help clean this up at all. No. Laura do you have hope for this city . I mean, i have hope, but its going to be long time hope project. Were talking five years, 10 years down the road to recover, right . San francisco will bounce back. It always has this one is going to be tougher to bounce back from. Many of us take for granted feeling safe in our own home. But many San Francisco residents have had that feeling of safety shattered. Now, i talk to a lot of people during my time there and its just Heart Breaking the way they are feeling and they dont have the support from their Political Leadership, all democrats or even the police. They are overwhelmed where is their representation. You dont hear anything from nancy pelosi unless its involving her family her city too. She lives there why are so many people struggling and so badly. Why are the streets filled with despair. Why are residents having to pay for private security to protect themselves in their own homes. Well, i spoke to one homeowner who had to do just that. After his house was broken into nearly a dozen times. His story was first reported by independent journalist lee fang. The bottom line is i dont feel safe in my own home. Laura you may have heard about the crime. The assaults on the streets, targeting of asian americans. Closing of stores they cant keep items on the shelves they are being stolen. But what about individual homeowners people who are investing in this city . Maybe they are renovating a house or doing an entire reconstruction of existing home . How are they making it . We decided to talk to one littl, Tech Entrepreneur been burg glirsed not once, twice, three times during Reconstruction Project during the past three years alone he has been burglarized 10 times. How is he dealing with this. And whats the future of San Francisco if this Crime Problem does not get solved . So my first breakin when i was living here was in the summer of 2020 in total i have had 10 breakins. Laura 10 breakins in less than three years . Yeah, actually. Yeah. Laura what are they looking for . Valuable things. You know, something they could sell getting tense, getting scarier and its constant. Laura ben cook grew up in kentucky and dime San Francisco to get his hd. He stayed because he fell in love the city. Laura i see the broken window in front what was that from. That was a breakin earlier i cant remember which one. Laura thats what its of its come to you have had so many. They happen all the time. After the breakin and theft i lost Tens Of Thousands of dollars. Of my crew lost a lot of tools, a lot of valuable tools they need. And this fellow lost all of his tools. Significant amount of money. I mean, he is upset. Laura the most recent breakin at cooks home happened over the weekend. Three incidents in a single day you can see one of the thieves walking out of the house with a ladder stolen from the construction workers. The guy who looked like he may have been armed broke in right there. You know, just a month or so ago, there was an organized crew that came in the middle of the night. Two vehicles, big crew of folks, they even took my washer and dryer. You know, thats big stuff these folks knew what they were doing, they had a plan, they knew they had been watching us, thats what it felt like to me. Laura when do you call the police, whats their response . Usually it would be well call you back. Laura umhuh. I called many, many times i just i was shocked that there was no response whatsoever when there was you know, home invasion. There was someone there there was a confrontation. Fortunately, my guard, who i hired someone to sleep here at night because i knew the house was under constant threat. Laura wait a second, you are building a house, you had to hire someone to be here, sleep where are they sleeping . This is a Construction Site . Yeah. The heat its not comfortable. Space heater and an air mattress. Laura this is insane it . Is insane. Im not okay with it. I dont think its okay i dont know what to do. I dont know how to feel safer. I dont know how to protect the things that i have worked hard to get, you know. I hear stories from everybody its just a part of life here you expect if you park your car outside a restaurant and you go to dinner, there is a pretty good chance that a window will be broken when you come back its just you dont report it because you know there is not going to be a response i dont feel that should be acceptable part of life when you dont feel safe when you are out or dont feel safe in your home. Laura and, yet, you love this city . I do. Its beautiful. The main thick is its full of brilliant, ambitious people. People that i dont feel like i would meet anywhere else, you know. I love my friends here, my network here. Im committed to being here. Obviously. Laura no matter what . No matter what happens . Well. Laura is there a limit for you . There are limits, you know. I cant afford to have fulltime Security Staff outside the house just to feel safe at night, you know . Thats crazy. I feel like i should expect a basic Civic Service of security. And im not getting it. Laura whats your view of the city Going Forward if there is no significant change in Law Enforcement and actually pushing the criminals out and back . Well, i dont know what to expect, but i can say in my experience and in the experience of people that i know and talk to, its clearly getting worse. You know, steadily getting worse. And its starting to get scary. And no one will do anything about it. I dont know what to do. I dont know what to do. Laura we showed you the drugs. We showed you the crime. And now its time to see how both of those things are hurting the city and its residents economically. Laura just over a year ago, whole foods opened this store, a flagship on Market Street in San Francisco. And now its closed. Now, the company says its temporary, but we know whats going on. In the span of one year, 911 received 568 calls about what was happening in the store. There were assaults on employees with knives. Attempted shootings. A machete. Attacks almost every day and people almost didnt feel safe. This is all the result of policies that have been terrible for this city. Failure to enforce criminal law. And thats resulted in stores like target, wall green and others putting a lot of their toiletries behind plastic and thick plastic shields. Other stores also closing like nordstrum and saks off fifth closing as well here. What is the loss of retail going to do to San Francisco . And when will people wake up . Even if you go to like walgreens Security Guards at the front trying to prevent people from Stealing Basic necessities. Basic necessities are like boxed up in like plastic boxes. Laura what does it feel like when you go in a store and like toothpaste is behind thick plastic enclosures now . Im used to it. Do you get numb to what is happening around you . People shooting around. I see it a lot. Laura do you want it to improve. Yeah. I dont think anyone likes living like this. Laura do you think people get numb to what is going on here in the city with obviously the drugs, the crime. I dont know if people are numb to it. People are aware of it and talk about how it feels especially since covid really its mainly the shift has kind of changed, im worried about the future of the city overall. You were here when it opened . Yeah i lived right here like you said and it was easy to get my milk and groceries, anything i needed. Even late nights and eventually started closing earlier and that was already a problem now its just gone. How worried are you about that and how it might change the city without retail . I think its going to be horrible. It only gets worse. It has been getting worse since i got here. Everybody is claiming about the crime. Its terrible here like 6 00 p. M. Walking away at night. Laura are you afraid after 6 00. Yeah, cant do it alone. 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That was august of 2020, i was standing right here in this spot with a torched Police Precinct over one shoulder and the burned down auto zone over the other. It was just 10 weeks after the George Floyd Riots that destroyed so much of this area. I decided to come back every summer to find out whats changing. Is the crime Getting Better or getting worse . Is there a Police Presence here thats trusted . And what about this third Police Precinct burned down during the riots . Does it remain a monument to anarchy . Why decided to talk a number of people in different walks of life. What do they think . Looking at the third Police Precinct three years after the riots . Myself but also obviously the Police Officers facility but it is just sad to see. Here we are three years later and literally nothing has changed. Laura Scott Gear Licker Retired police officer. One of the commanders who led the Police Response after George Floyds death antiviolence initiatives. Having said that crime still is high and any time you have 400 fewer officers than you did before its difficult to get a handle on street crime. Laura it doesnt look like there is going to be a Police Precinct in this actual area that suffered so much after the floyd riots. The activists, i think, believe thats a surrender by the police or the C City Council they consider it a victory. I agree. I think the activists and some of the city council members, also activists themselves consider a victory not to have police in the precinct because some of the city council dont want police to begin with. Their agenda is to eliminate the police. Their agenda is to disrupt law and order. They thrive on that. The residents, however, if you talk to the residents, im sure you have. They really want to see the police in their own community. Its been a tough couple years. Mark is the owner of welna ace hardware. A business been in his family for 70 years. Life here isnt easy. Its getting harder crime and frankly a lack of Political Leadership doesnt help. I notice you blocked off some of the aisles. Why is that . We have to help people down those aisles because we just had too much theft. In the tool area, you know, a lot of the thieves that are breaking into houses around here, they cant even buy the tools of their trade. They have to steal the crowbars and s