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Mayor Lurie defends enforcement strategy as supervisors press for broader fentanyl response
Summary
Mayor Daniel Lurie told the Board of Supervisors the administration measures success by residents' experiences and defended recent interagency operations targeting street drug markets, while Supervisor Myrna Melgar Fielder and others urged a 'four pillars' approach that balances enforcement with prevention, harm reduction and treatment.
Mayor Daniel Lurie told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 11 that his administration measures success in its response to open-air drug markets and fentanyl by whether residents and small-business owners feel safe on city streets.
Supervisor Myrna Melgar Fielder asked Lurie whether recent enforcement operations—cited in the meeting as targeting hot spots such as Sixth Street, Sixteenth and Mission, Jefferson Square Park and the Tenderloin—had succeeded or merely displaced people who use drugs to other neighborhoods. Fielder pressed the mayor to commit to a strategy that gives equal weight to prevention/education, harm reduction, treatment and enforcement, an approach she described as the "four pillars" model endorsed in a recent Budget and Legislative…
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