San Francisco will now be getting federal help when it comes to fighting the fentanyl crisis.
Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced that the Department of Justice has added San Francisco to its Operation Overdrive program.
"I'm so proud of the Biden administration for the leadership role they're playing and the attorney general for recognizing that violence and drug use in our community needs to come to an end," Pelosi said. New numbers show in the midst of the current crackdown the city set a new record for fentanyl deaths. In May, 63 people died, the most deaths in any month since the city's medical examiner started tracking overdose deaths in January 2020.Police Chief Bill Scott welcomes the additional federal law enforcement response.
"They have resources and availability," he said."Their cases go a different route than our state cases."
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