London Breed is a politician whose voters got mugged

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Mayor London Breed announced a major budget cut to the San Francisco police and sheriff's departments over the next two years.

Mayor London Breed launched an emergency police intervention in San Francisco’s crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday, targeting a pipeline of illegal drugs that has been fueling a surge in gun violence and deadly fentanyl overdoses.

Breed’s anger and frustration over the crime surge in the city were on full display at her noon news conference.

It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” she said. “And it comes to an end when we take the steps to more aggressive with law enforcement. More aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerate of all the BS that has destroyed our city.”

The Tenderloin crackdown was just one of four crime fighting initiatives Breed announced at a news conference that afternoon.

The other three were:

securing emergency police funding for needed resources
Amending our surveillance ordinance so law enforcement can interrupt crime in real time
Disrupting the illegal street sales of stolen goods.

In fact, last month alone, there were 876 reports – that’s almost 30 a day – compared with 442 last November.

In the Tenderloin alone there were six shootings, 2O drug arrests and 16 assault and batteries in the 50-square block Tenderloin last month.