California authorities have been trying to clean up San Francisco’s ‘most troubled corner’ since June ahead of the 2023 APEC Summit, as tourists wander through the city’s open-air drug trade and black markets.
The intersection at Seventh and Market is the center of San Francisco’s drug crisis – with 20% of 2023 drug crimes taking place around the sketchy street corner.
San Francisco is on track to set a record for fatal drug overdoses this year – 54 people died in the city from unintentional overdoses in September alone.
City, state and federal authorities have been throwing money and resources at the liberal city’s drug epidemic since June to try and control the growing lawlessness that is plaguing the country’s sixth most expensive city.
Efforts from politicians and leaders have escalated in light of the 2023 APEC summit – which is set to take place in San Francisco in just a few days.
The intersection at Seventh and Market is the center of San Francisco’s drug crisis – with 20% of 2023 drug crimes taking place around the sketchy street corner
San Francisco is on track to set a record for fatal drug overdoses this year – 54 people died in the city from unintentional overdoses in September alone
Zombie-like homeless people were sprawled out on the trash-littered streets and groups of addicts congregated at all hours of the day to take drugs and deal illegal substances in the open-air
The APEC summit will be hosted by the Democrat-run city starting on November 11 and will welcome 21 of the world’s most prominent economies’ leaders.
Eight government agencies – including park rangers, Public Works employees and nonprofit Urban Alchemy workers – have put manpower into controlling the mess of illegal activity in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Standard.
Pictures captured by a photojournalist at the Standard caught the treacherous conditions that homeless people and drug addicts are surviving in on the intersection of Seventh and Market street.
Zombie-like homeless people were sprawled out on the trash-littered streets and groups of addicts congregated at all hours of the day to take drugs and deal illegal substances in the open-air.
Emergency vehicles are constantly patrolling the area, with many claiming that the area has improved during daylight but descends into a mass of illegal activity at nighttime.
The San Francisco Police Department have argued that the crisis at San Francisco’s ‘most troubled corner’ did not pop up overnight and cannot be fixed in a week or two, but residents of the expensive city are sick of paying extortionate prices to live amidst a mass of illegal activity.
City, state and federal authorities have been throwing money and resources at the liberal city’s drug epidemic since June to try and control the growing lawlessness that is plaguing the country’s sixth most expensive city
Efforts from politicians and leaders have escalated in light of the 2023 APEC summit – which is set to take place in San Francisco in just a few days
The state of San Francisco will be an embarrassing representation of the US at this year’s APEC Summit, and Chinese media agree as the city is slammed as a ‘ruined city’ and ‘hell’ by outlets in China.
The beleaguered California city has been labelled a ‘total failure’ by some China-based outlets as the city prepares to host Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
Eight government agencies – including park rangers, Public Works employees and nonprofit Urban Alchemy workers – have put manpower into controlling the mess of illegal activity in San Francisco
The spotlight will be on the city as the Chinese President meets with President Biden for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
While the city gears up for the event, U.S. Chinese Radio used the headline ‘Ghost town San Francisco to have major blood exchange as APEC will bring the safest week in history to the city.’
Other headlines include the phrases ‘garbage city, ‘ruined city’ and ‘fallen city’, as crippling drug issues and widespread homeless problems continue to cause problems for the city.
Another headline from the Chinese site Phoenix also said the city had fallen into a ‘death cycle’.
One article also states: ‘San Francisco was once a jewel on the West Coast of the United States, but as the Democrats advanced their radical agenda.
‘Now it has become a mecca of crime, the streets are in disarray, and it is rapidly slipping towards the status of a ghost town.’
Residents of San Francisco are concerned for their safety and security in the crime-ridden city and a flock of businesses are slamming their doors shut for good in the seemingly hopeless area.
In April, Whole Foods announced it was closing all their locations, with Anthropologie and Office Depot having also made the same decisions leading some analysts to predict that the city has entered a ‘doom-loop’ of permanent decline.
Restaurants on one of San Francisco’s most storied streets are closing at an alarming rate – and owners are saying it’s due to the city’s spiraling crime.
Residents of San Francisco are concerned for their safety and security in the crime-ridden city and a flock of businesses are slamming their doors shut for good in the seemingly hopeless area
The state of San Francisco will be an embarrassing representation of the US at this year’s APEC Summit, and Chinese media agree as the city is slammed as a ‘ruined city’ and ‘hell’ by outlets in China
SFPD have argued that the crisis at San Francisco’s ‘most troubled corner’ did not pop up overnight and cannot be fixed in a week or two, but residents of the expensive city are sick of paying extortionate prices to live amidst a mass of illegal activity
A slew of restaurateurs cited crime, drugs, and waning tourism as the main culprits killing their businesses, all set on Valencia Street.
The thoroughfare, about a mile from the city’s embattled Downtown, is considered one of the most sought-after strips of restaurant real estate in The Bay Area.
In June of this year – a group of fed-up San Francisco residents cobbled together $25,000 to buy garden planters, typically used to feed livestock, to line streets in the city’s troubled Mission District in order deter homeless people from setting up camps there.
The use of the planters was first reported in mid-June and those behind the installation said that they are seeing mixed-results in Democrat-run city, reports the San Francisco Standard.