In reply to Harrison.

Harrison,

I agree with you that candidates should, “commit to action” and be held, “accountable”.

I suggest making the SFPD Chief an elected position again.

If they say they’re going to put 200 officers on Permanent Foot Patrol and fund another 300 Patrol Specials from their budget and don’t do it you can vote them out.

You like that idea ?

Right now everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else.

Go Niners !!

h.

In reply to Mike Moody.

Hi Mike,

I run for the Public Platform to advance ideas I like.

Visit my site at SFbulldogblog.com

Fire up some doobie as you do so.

h.

Wow these people are actually idiots and shows who is incentivized to run for public office….if these are our options the city is screwed

What a bunch of word salad and in some cases outright nonsense. Buying all the drugs from dealers? Give me a break.

Of all the candidates, I like how Trevor Chandler at least has a specific plan. It’s the only way our democracy works: Elected officials commit to action, and voters hold them accountable if they achieved what they said they would do.

Vague promises like “staffing up” and “following Oregon and Portugal” make it too easy for politicians to dodge accountability.

If you brought the intellectual capital of all of the candidates together, you might have a half wit, at best. Buying back drugs would simply mean that the addicts step on the product they’re selling back to you; government being the biggest fool of all. Marijuana has been decriminalized, it isn’t going anywhere. It’s still here. The idea of centralizing all nonprofit activities and support services has been rehashed for years. I have a better idea, a “Phoenix” program. Send the drug addicts out on buses to deforested areas, owing to massive fires, and have them live in tents, like they do on the street, while they eat healthy meals in nature, and replant the hill slopes. No need to wait on a treatment bed, no need for the public to pick up the tab with nothing to gain in return. The addicts should be in a good eight hour day of labor, so that they can sleep soundly at night and be proud of what they’ve achieved; instead of spending their days stealing from wherever they can, with seemingly no way out of the trap of addiction.

‘B’,

I agree with you on Fielder’s explanation on Portugal’s work.

Oregon just North of us is having success with decriminalization.

I gotta like myself and my own opinions best tho else what’s the sense of getting up ?

lol

Jackie has my second place vote in our Ranked Choice system and I want to hear her come out for Legalizing the Sex Trade and licensing the World’s Oldest Trade in some of those 55 vacant store fronts on Mission.

Time for Michael Powers to become a chain.

lol

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Julian Bermudez’s “buy back drugs” program would create an even larger drug market. Handing out more disease is not a cure. Helping people find a fulfilling life, where sobriety is better than being high.

Julian has no idea of how drug supplies work with the scale they produce, and yet says he’s a businessman. Unless the idea is spending billions to buy back an infinite drug supply backed by Cartels and the industrial might of China. Good luck.

Trevor is probably showing some NIMBY aspirations by shoveling the drug problem by building a major treatment complex……right on top of a superfund site on the Bayview Shipyard. And the guy put that in bold. I am sure that community is elated to get more problems shoveled into their neighborhood. For the billionth time.

Jaime is asking for detox, while isn’t bad, is not even close to the actual gold standard of opioid care, which is suboxone or methadone. Not to mention pretty obvious as a first step to intake, but detox won’t be even close to effective. There’s no real thought here past that.

Ronen left a big mantle with Mental Health SF, and it will be their job to pitch and direct the effort as D9 Supervisor.

I just don’t see the candidates listed in my comment before this line having a legible thought on the issue.

The only one that actually seems to know the basics of policy and able to properly explain it is Jackie Fielder, otherwise it’s vague and unassuming.