SFPD battling tidal wave of crime and illegal drug sales Boudin calls what’s happening in the neighborhood “devastating.” “The Tenderloin is a neighborhood that’s one of the most diverse in SF and has one of the largest concentrations of families with school aged kids,” he said. “It’s devastating to see what is happening in the streets of the Tenderloin. To know that there are families that live there, merchants that are trying to survive and do business, kids that have to step over folks overdosing on their way to school.” It’s something that neighborhood resident Drake Davis faces every day.