Lord have mercy!
Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
San Francisco is on the front pages this week as the 49ers seek to win their sixth Super Bowl this Sunday. But the city is making news for tragic reasons as well.
- The San Francisco Chronicle headlines: “San Francisco street horror only grows as drug overdose numbers spike.”
- CNN reports: “Drugs are sold out in the open in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.”
- The New York Post adds: “Inside San Francisco’s ‘dens of death’ as liberal city faces drug crisis.”
- And this from CNN: “A mother was raising her son in a city she loved. Then San Francisco changed and stole her boy.”
Drug addicts now outnumber high school students in San Francisco.
In an area a short walk from Union Square, the city’s central shopping district, CNN reports that “it’s commonplace to see people using and selling drugs. Human waste, used needles, and bullet casings litter the sidewalks.”
What’s going on in San Francisco?
Why does this matter to the rest of us?