"It's time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city…come[s] to an end,"" said San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, at a December 14, 2021 press conference. "It comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement."
We need to be "less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city," continued Breed, who declared a state of emergency in the city's Tenderloin district a few days later, leading to an increased police presence in the epicenter of the city's growing homelessness and addiction crisis.
