San Francisco Mayor London Breed claimed last week that Target closing stores is because “people don’t necessarily shop in the same ways that they did before” and that the growth of AI “requires us to make some significant adjustments in how we use our retail establishments as well.”
Breed also stated that while retail theft is an issue “it’s a problem that’s also happening in other places all over the country as well.”
When the mayor was asked if she thought the Democratic Party has been too lenient on this issue of crime, Breed said as a city they “have been far too lenient.”
“Well, I would say that many of the decisions that I make as Mayor aren’t really about my party. They’re more about my personal experiences, as well as my desire to see my city safe. Some people know that I, unfortunately, lost a sister to a drug overdose. I grew up in the crack epidemic in public housing, where drug use and the addiction was all around me, and losing friends and loved ones to drugs and to the criminal justice system was a normal part of my life,” Breed said.
“And part of my recommendation is really coming from people who were formerly incarcerated and who continue to call themselves former addicts, from the work that they’re doing and just the challenges they experienced in their life in the past and the need for us, as a city — and I can only speak to San Francisco and my relationships there — but as a city, how we have been far too lenient, how we need to make sure that people are held accountable,” she continued.
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Breed continued, “Fentanyl and what it’s doing in terms of the number of deaths — we had more deaths from fentanyl overdoses than we did during the COVID pandemic, and we shut the entire world down to deal with that. And this fentanyl crisis, which is not just happening in San Francisco, it’s happening all over the country, we have to start taking really aggressive steps. It’s not a Democratic issue. It’s not a Republican issue. It’s really the desire to do everything we can to try and address substance use disorder in this city and in this country.”
