Tenderloin and people who i grew up with. People are angry with when they see and experience. The brazen drug use and sales during broad daylight. We know what is at stake. The sale of drugs on our streets they are killing people. And open air drug markets disrupting neighborhoods and residents. In fact we had moreover dose deaths since the start of a Global Pandemic then and there covid deaths. Kids are wuk by things they should not see on the way to school. No one should see or experience that. This does not include the violence which we know has been extremely problematic. I know there are so many who are struggling with addiction. And this is a city of compassion. Of course, we want to help. We have been balancing our work around expansion of services and treatment for them. And we need to firm low establish what is acceptable conduct on our streets and in our public spaces. San francisco has to draw a firm line at behaviors that harm that injury and cost neighborhoods peace of mind every day safety and quality of life. And part of this means we must be more aggressive with arrests and prosecution for the organized criminal operations that are flooding our streets with drugs and violence. That in some cases have lead to people losing their lives. The driving of drugs especially fentanyl in our city is going to require all levels of government Work Together including enforce am against those dealing drugs. Tell require Police Working with the da and board of supervisors working with the city agencies. Us soliciting support and help from the federal governments, which we are doing this is a hard issue. I want to be clear, that the leaders of the city are final low working together the way they should in order to address it. Police chief scott will provide details on the data and the department strategies. Da jenkins will talk about haher office has been working on and supervisor dorsey a strong advocate for Public Safety not just in the district he represents but other neighborhoods in the city. He has been supportive of Law Enforcement and addressing the issue. And this does require a Public Health approach as well. Over the last year we connected 4500 people to services for Substance Use in stan San Francisco across our health system. We are 2 thirds of the way toddaing 400 treatment beds adding make it 2,000 and adding that to 2, 200 that already exist. The Health Department is setting goals to increase people medically assisted treatment. Help them get off opioids. Housing and other places we are createingly for people struggling on our streets. The investments are designed to create solutions that can get people off the streets in safe settings and ultimate low stability. We will snot stop until we get to the goal where no neighborhood should be responsible for living in the conditions like the ones we see sad low in the tenderloin. Residentses and merchants deserve a clean and safe neighborhood. Be clear using drugs in the open is unacceptable. We have to move together and thats why it is important we have our police chief and District Attorney. Board of supervisors here working together. Police department making arrests and seeding the fentanyl. Interrupting the open air drug deal and confiindicating deadly substance as we build strong case against criminals profiting from drug sales and they have a partner in our District Attorney. Who is sending a strong message around accountability and who is working with our offices to build strong case. That is not about them it is about what they are doing together to help the people who are struggling in our city especially again the folks in the tenderloin. When our Police Officers make an arrest there needs to be consequence for the seniors, immigrants, kids who are trying to live their lives. And do the basic things we take for granted. We are working on every option to get people the help they need and hold those who bring warm to our streets account act. For what they are causing the significant damage. Standing with everyone today im confident our Public Safety agencies will work more closely together will make a difference for residentses and workers and visitors and with that i want to take an opportunity to introduce police chief bill scott and everyone in the department to make sure our foot beats and patrols and officers are responding to calls we have a lot to work to do it is important that we support Law Enforcement in this city because ultimate low we have to make significant change and that means we have to make sure they are consequence when is people break law in San Francisco. And thats what we will do to make our streets safer. With that police chief bill scott. Thank you mayor and good morning. First, thank you to the mayor our District Attorney and matt dorsey this is a mall fraction of the city team working hard to address this issue. We want to make sure that everybody understandses unity and the commitment of city leaders to make situation better this. Is about saving lives and protecting the people who work with and play in the city. And this is about producting our great city. I want to talk about the balance that we are trying to achieve here. The Police Departments role is enforcement and guess way beyond that. This city is known for compassion and known for reaching out and helping people who need help this city is known for balance what needs to be done on the enforce am scale and to get people who want and need help to a better place. Our role the San FranciscoPolice Department and the officers out in the streets starts with had we are hear for this is enforce am. We are also here to treat people with dignity and he respect and make connections with all the resources in the city family to get people to a better place. And we are doing both. This is about working more effectively, working efficiently and always evaluating hawe are doing and can we do it better. This is something this mayor breed stresses on a daily basis. And we are responding to that direction to work efficient low and effectively. I want to talk about how we plan to do that. We made 600 narcotic related rests and for sales. Possession for sales met low. The Police Department and our officers have to give the District Attorney the evidence she and her team need to prosecute cases. And if we do our jobs we can have the accountability that we are looking for. There has to be consequences. There has to be accountability we cannot be the city people think they come in San Francisco or live in San Francisco and do when they please and nobody will say anything or do anything. And i guarantee you we are not that city. We are committed to accountability and consequence. In addition to the 600 rests, a part of readjustment we realize we had to do more to address the people who need help the people most addicted. I have been doing this for a long time and every wagz where we have groups of drug dealers on the streets, what closely follow this is are people who are addicted, have a Substance Abuse disorders and they are operating in tandem. We have to address both sides we cant arrest the deal and then leave the people buying the drugs alone to do as they please and think this will get better. It is tough balance to do that. The same time, we respect Harm Reduction and make sure that people who are addicted are not using dirty needles and pipes and spreading hiv and things to make a Public Health issue even more complicated. However, that does not mean people addicted get a free pass. The criminal Justice System as tools to get to that issue. This city leads with service. We lead with services. Our officers and come in contact with people who need help they are directed to get them to help. Not everybodiments help. Not everybody is red for help. And when they are still addicted than i are going to buy drug and use drug and when we have seen and have to put a stop top is that is happen nothing broad daylight in the street. Kids and families see it that harms our communities as much as violent and property crime and we have to do more that is our commitment to do more. Our officers storied in june of addressing that issue. Over 350 citations for people using in open space in public spaces. Many of those people have warrants and orders from the courts than i were not sfoezed to be there in the first place. The District Attorney talk about policyos how to dlaesz when we need to do is do our jobs and make sure the people understand that is not okay. And i have talked to many people in the city i dont care what sifted e wagz you are on i have not heard anybody say it is okay to smoke fentanyl in the street with kids walking by and families. I have not heard anybody say that is okay. We should be in agreement to do something about it. And this is when we are committed to doing. The operations and this enforce am will condition and it has increased. We know the affects of harms to our community that drug dealing the tenderloin is one community they have more deaths than any part of the city for drug over dose. Our officers are saving lives. The reversals are a daily occasion. Whoaness what the over dose would be if we were not doing that and the other per ins trying to stave lives. We have to dig deep are. We cannot allow this to continue and we will not allow this to continue on our streets. I will close with a person story. This past friday, myself and a couple officers and sergeant were at eighth and mission. It is known for drug sales and addicted people hanging out. Supervisor dorsey was a half block, way conducting a Community Clean up. Officers makes arrests while i was there for drug sales. Needles spread out on the sidewalk. It had been cleaned up a couple hours before public works had just cleand that corner up and you never would have known it. I saw a girl walking down the street with her mom, stepping over needle another girl and her mom wanted to get on the bus. The bus shelter was peculiared with litter with people using and people passed out at the bus shelter. Thats not okay. Folks. It is not okay. We gotta clone it up within an hour. Officers came and cleaned it up. Arrests were made as i was out there arrests were being made for sales. Couple hours later. Back to the same. Here is the point to this story. This mayor this da and board of supervisor and many others in this chief are committed to try to resolve this issue. The spitzes the mayor talked about are vital. And one way we plan to work it more efficiently is take away excuses. We had trouble with getting people transperked from street corners to accomplices where they get help we did not have transportation that is no longer an issue. Working with Public Health is no longer an issue. Our job is to take away the excuses of why people cant and will not seek help. And then when they dont, thats when enforce am come in to play and the criminal Justice System leverages them to help to a better place. So, expect more. Expect more efficiency. Expect the partnership to continue to grow. And expect our city to be the great city that it is and should be. And with that, i will turn it over to our District Attorney. Good morning, sxefrn thank you to mayor breed to chief scott and supervisor dorsey for their leadership on this issue and partnership with my office. We had over 1700 over dose death in San Francisco since 2020. I promised the public the day i was sworn in i was committed to doing something in the open air drug architect and making sure we restored accountability in the xhinl Justice System. When we know is that the san pran das office the last 21 2 years decriminalized the sale of drugs and we seat result of that out on the streets every day. A part of my commitment in demonstrating my commitment to solve thanksgiving issue was to immediately come in and to survey the situation with respect what offers extended to those dealing drugs in our office and immediately revoke 30 plea offers i believed were lenient for those selling fentanyl. My approach to dealing with the drug market has been we have to have consequences. We have to make sure our rehab courts are not abused and misused bide those dealers and not those who have Substance Abuse problems. I announced the last 21 2 monthses, many policies with respect to the kay we handle drug cases going forward. We are now prohibiting those who have more than 5 grams of a controlled substance from entering in our rehad been courts. Should be reserved for those who need treatment. I put enhancement on the table for those who sell drugs untiling a thousand feet of schools. I made sure that we are no longer giving lenient plea and dismissals to those selling the most loathal drug on the market. We filing pretrial detention motions for those who have sales case. Those who have picked up numerous fentanyl sales cases and in possessions of kwuntss that could kill neighborhoods in San Francisco. In one shot. I have announced a new policy we move forward with admonishing fentanyl sellers at time of arraignment about the lethality of fent until and helping them understandship they be connected to someones death through the sale of that deadly drug they could be charged with murder. We are now in a crisis. As we know. And that crisis does not stop with the adults. I have a 6 year old daughter i had to give a lesson to about candy fentanyl on the markets. We are seeing over doses in the School Systems in california. This crisis has reached a point as heard this morning, we enough as leaders do something and thats why i have taken this aggressive approach. Since july first, we have filed 183 narcotics sale case in my office. Which is almost double what the Previous Administration filed in the same period of time. Arraigned 157 individuals from july first to september 25th. Representing 100 increase in the initial arain ams for dug dealers in San Francisco during that time last year. The charges dont tell the story we know that. They do hymn illustrate the fact we are taking an aggressive prop and taking this issue seriously. And what the public will see is this on the back ends of these cases you will see accountability. Written to the motion to detain filed 9 of those motions. 2 being filed yesterday. And we are continuing to advance new legal tloeries and arguments to make surety judges understands the dangers the fentanyl dealers present to the public. As i said, in every single arraignment with respect to the safely fent until we are giving that admonishment regarding the potential for filing of murder charges should somebody sale connected to a death. I have also gone on or abouted to many of the police stations to speak with the rank and file officers. Those out on foot patrol making these arrests. I met with the foot Patrol Officer in thes tenderloin at southern station in soma. To let them know that when they do their jobs at the highest level. When they make rests the das office is willing to make sure well is accountability. Their work is value in the the criminal system and essential and what the public wants i was out yesterday on Market Street and had a gentlemen tell me that just a few months ago his wife died of a fentanyl over dose she was in roefsh trying to stay clone with the amount drug dealers it was impossible for this to continue. That is what ultmitt low lead to her death. He implored mow to do something about that is going on and yes, based on haeveryone is saying around this industry, as chief scott pointed out we have a job to do and we are willing to do it. With respect to the open air drug use. As i said over and over again we cant be a city that accepts People Public low using drugs on our street. As a driveway down ve around with my children how i do explain that is going on and they should not engage in drug use when it appears to something that happens normly and regular low in the open create a policy regarding bundling. At the time someone reaches a fifth citation we will file a complaint and forward to the Justice Centers designed to require them and help them engage in treatment. As chief scott city we are a city of compassion but this is not leaving people on the streets potential to die. It is using the tools we have to propel people to change their lives. What i know is that for all the people i met in recovery many said of the criminal Justice System that got them on the road to staying clean and im committed to using this system to help those do so. The reckless decisions made by the Previous Administration have cost San Francisco far too many lives. And those are not 3 away lives they are peoples family members. It is impacted both families and the Business Community here in San Francisco and continues to impact families who live in the neighborhoods most plagued by this behavior. I pledge as i have before, that i will do everything in my power to help this city move forward to e readicate this problem and make sure that all communities can live in peace and safety. And at this point i will pass it over to supervisor dorsey. Thank you. Thank you mayor breed for leadership and thank you chief scott for your leadership and friendship and mentorship during th