{"id":32826,"date":"2025-02-08T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/dem-mayor-unleashes-task-force-in-attempt-to-rescue-crime-ridden-city-restore-order-to-our-streets\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T02:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:12:30","slug":"dem-mayor-unleashes-task-force-in-attempt-to-rescue-crime-ridden-city-restore-order-to-our-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/dem-mayor-unleashes-task-force-in-attempt-to-rescue-crime-ridden-city-restore-order-to-our-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem mayor unleashes task force in attempt to rescue crime-ridden city: ‘Restore order to our streets’"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Mayor David Lurie\u00a0launched the San Francisco<\/a> Police Department (SFPD) Hospitality Task Force and\u00a0secured a key vote in support of the Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance this week as he works to clean up San Francisco’s streets and restore common sense policies to the liberal city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Francisco has had one of the slowest economic recoveries from the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> in the country. Images of San Francisco\u2019s open-air drug markets, homeless encampments and empty office buildings have caught the nation\u2019s attention since the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The SFPD Hospitality Task Force will target San Francisco\u2019s business and tourist districts, increasing police presence, dedicating resources to high-traffic areas and offering support to the hospitality industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Helping people feel safe walking downtown is the key to unleashing our city\u2019s comeback,” Lurie said. “We are creating the conditions for a thriving commercial center by launching the SFPD Hospitality Task Force. The Hospitality Task Force will break down silos to increase the police presence across the areas that drive our city\u2019s economy, not just during large conferences, but 365 days a year.”<\/p>\n

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Major retailers, including Nordstrom and Saks Off Fifth, pulled out of San Francisco\u2019s downtown due to rising crime and dwindling foot traffic. After more than 20 years in the heart of downtown San Francisco, Westfield abandoned the\u00a0San Francisco Centre mall in 2023, citing a decline in sales, occupancy and foot traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Franciscans voted Mayor London Breed out of office in November. She was elected in 2018 and led the city through its struggling pandemic recovery. Lurie, a Levi’s heir and political outsider, began his first term as mayor in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He campaigned on cleaning up San Francisco\u2019s streets, public safety, tackling the city\u2019s drug crisis, creating housing<\/a>, cutting through corrupt bureaucracy and “breathing life back into our downtown.”<\/p>\n

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“With a safe, bustling downtown, we will attract businesses, shoppers, tourists and conventions, creating jobs, generating revenue and helping us provide better services for everyone in San Francisco,” Lurie said of the new task force.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also this week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 in favor of Mayor Lurie\u2019s Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As a candidate for mayor, I promised San Franciscans that I would work in partnership with the Board of Supervisors to take action on the critical issues facing our city,” Lurie said. “As mayor, I am proud to be delivering on that promise today. The Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance gives us the tools to treat this crisis with the urgency it demands. And with our partners on the board, that\u2019s exactly what we will do.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ordinance will equip the city with the resources “to get drugs off the street and keep San Franciscans safe” by unlocking funding and expediting the contracting process to allow for expanded treatment options, increased shelter capacity and health initiatives. The full Board of Supervisors will address the ordinance Tuesday for a second and final reading before Lurie can sign the ordinance into law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a problem facing San Francisco today that isn\u2019t caused by or made significantly worse by street-level drug addiction,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who voted in favor of the ordinance, said.<\/p>\n

“Mayor Lurie\u2019s emergency ordinance aims to surge resources that deliver solutions as big as the problems. This is a needed approach to restore order to our streets, to diminish San Francisco\u2019s attraction as a drug-use and drug-dealing destination and to save lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Mayor David Lurie\u00a0launched the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Hospitality Task Force and\u00a0secured a key vote in support of the Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance this week as he works to clean up San Francisco’s streets and restore common sense policies to the liberal city.\u00a0 San Francisco has had one of the slowest … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}