The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved Mayor London Breed’s plan to increase the police presence in the city’s Tenderloin district, in an attempt to stop rampant public drug use and overdoses in the neighborhood.
The Board voted 8-2 in favor the plan, after debate that began Thursday and continued into the early morning of Christmas Eve. Board president Shamann Walton and supervisor Dean Preston voted against the measure, in protest of Breed’s proposal to flood the Tenderloin with police.
Other supervisors who voted in favor said while they did not support placing more drug addicts in jail, the city needed to address drug overdoses because they have become a public health crisis, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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