San Francisco’s Fentanyl Crisis
Commentary
The devastating fentanyl epidemic in San Francisco, California has become so catastrophic that on April 21, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will send in the National Guard and California Highway Patrol to help.
As part of a new collaborative operation with the San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, California Highway Patrol will “assist local law enforcement in combatting the fentanyl crisis through technical assistance, training, and drug trafficking enforcement,” and the National Guard will “identify specialist personnel and resources to support analysis of drug trafficking operations, with a particular focus on disrupting and dismantling fentanyl trafficking rings.”…