California authorities have been trying to clean up San Francisco’s “troubled corner” since June ahead of the 2023 APEC summit, as tourists stroll through the city’s open-air drug trade and black markets.
The intersection of Seventh and Market is the center of San Francisco’s drug crisis – 20% of drug crimes in 2023 will occur on this street corner.
San Francisco is on track to set a record for fatal drug overdoses this year – 54 people died from accidental overdoses in the city in September alone.
City, state and federal authorities have been pouring money and resources into the liberal city’s drug epidemic since June, trying to control the growing lawlessness plaguing the country’s sixth most expensive city.
Efforts by politicians and leaders have escalated ahead of the 2023 APEC summit, scheduled to take place in San Francisco in just a few days.
The intersection of Seventh and Market is the center of San Francisco’s drug crisis – 20% of drug crimes in 2023 will occur on this street corner
San Francisco is on track to set a record for fatal drug overdoses this year – 54 people died from accidental overdoses in the city in September alone
Zombie-like homeless people lay sprawled on trash-strewn streets and groups of addicts gathered around the clock to do drugs and deal illicit substances in the open air
The APEC summit will be hosted in the Democratic-run city from November 11 and will welcome 21 of the world’s top business leaders.
According to the San Francisco Standard, eight government agencies — including park rangers, public works employees and employees of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy — have deployed manpower to control the chaos of illegal activity in San Francisco.
Images captured by a photojournalist in the Standard showed the treacherous conditions in which homeless and drug addicts survive at the intersection of Seventh and Market streets.
Zombie-like homeless people lay sprawled on trash-strewn streets and groups of addicts gathered around the clock to do drugs and deal illicit substances in the open air.
Emergency vehicles constantly patrol the area. Many claim that the area has improved during daylight hours, but at night there is a surge in illegal activity.
San Francisco police have argued that the crisis in San Francisco’s “troublest corner” did not arise overnight and cannot be resolved in a week or two, but residents of the expensive city are tired of paying extortionate prices, to live among a crowd of illegal activities.
City, state and federal authorities have been pouring money and resources into the liberal city’s drug epidemic since June, trying to control the growing lawlessness plaguing the country’s sixth most expensive city
Efforts by politicians and leaders have escalated ahead of the 2023 APEC summit, scheduled 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 agrees, with the city being described as a “ruined city” and “hell” by Chinese media.
The beleaguered California city has been called a “total failure” by some China-based media outlets as the city prepares to host Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
Eight government agencies – including park rangers, public works employees and employees of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy – have deployed manpower to control the chaos of illegal activity in San Francisco
The city will be in the spotlight when the Chinese president meets with President Biden for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
As the city prepares for the event, US Chinese Radio headlined: “Major exchange of blood takes place in ghost town of San Francisco as APEC will give city the safest week in history.”
Other headlines include the terms “garbage city,” “ruined city” and “fallen city” as the city’s crippling drug problem and widespread homelessness continue to plague the city.
Another headline on the Chinese website Phoenix also said the city had entered a “death cycle.”
One article also states: “San Francisco was once a jewel on the West Coast of the United States, but as Democrats advanced their radical agenda.
“Now it has become a crime mecca, the streets are in disarray and it is slipping more and more into ghost town status.”
San Francisco residents are worried about their safety in the crime-ridden city, and a slew of businesses are slamming their doors forever in the seemingly hopeless area.
In April, Whole Foods announced it would close all of its locations, and Anthropologie and Office Depot had also made the same decisions, leading some analysts to predict that the city had entered a “loop” of permanent decline.
Restaurants on one of San Francisco’s most famous streets are closing at an alarming rate – and owners say it’s due to rising crime in the city.
San Francisco residents are worried about their safety in the crime-ridden city, and a slew of businesses are slamming their doors forever 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 agrees, with the city being described as a “ruined city” and “hell” by Chinese media
SFPD has argued that the crisis in San Francisco’s “troublest corner” didn’t happen overnight and won’t be solved in a week or two, but residents of the expensive city are tired of paying extortionate prices to get in the middle of a crowd living in illegal activities
A number of restaurateurs this week cited crime, drugs and declining tourism as the main causes of the destruction of their Valencia Street businesses.
The thoroughfare, about a mile from the embattled downtown, is considered one of the most sought-after restaurant properties in the Bay Area.
This June, a group of fed-up San Francisco residents cobbled together $25,000 to buy garden planters, normally used to feed livestock, to line streets in the city’s troubled Mission District to deter homeless people from setting up camp there.
The use of the planters was first reported in mid-June, and those behind the installation said they were seeing mixed results in the Democratic-run city, the San Francisco Standard reports.