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   From: slothe@netcom.com   
      
   On 14 Mar 2024, pothead  posted some   
   news:ut01n9$1t7kl$2@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 2024-03-14, Leroy N. Soetoro    
   > wrote:   
   >> Carrying a 12-pack of toilet paper under his arm, an adolescent boy   
   >> yelled as he hopped through a crowd of people smoking fentanyl and   
   >> selling stolen goods after dark near the corner of Seventh and Market   
   >> streets in the Tenderloin.   
   >>   
   >> “It’s popping out here,” he exclaimed in a squeaky voice, plopping   
   >> the rolls of toilet paper on the sidewalk for sale. Though the boy   
   >> stood no more than 5 feet tall, nobody in the crowd seemed to   
   >> question what a middle-school-age child was doing alone at night in   
   >> San Francisco’s most troubled neighborhood.   
   >>   
   >> This corner of Market Street, opposite United Nations Plaza, has long   
   >> been the epicenter of San Francisco’s drug and homelessness crises.   
   >> Hundreds of people have overdosed within a few block radius of this   
   >> spot over the past five years, more than anywhere else in the city.   
   >> Since last June, police have made over 2,300 drug-related arrests in   
   >> the surrounding neighborhood.   
   >>   
   >> But little has been said about the existence of children as young as   
   >> 13 years old among the dealers and street vendors. Their presence in   
   >> the plaza is an open secret among city officials, nonprofit workers   
   >> and inhabitants of the area, according to The Standard’s own   
   >> on-the-ground reporting.   
   >>   
   >> Some kids are brought to the Tenderloin after dark by their parents,   
   >> who are buying or selling stolen goods. Others are going at it   
   >> alone—hawking everything from makeup to toilet paper, which is often   
   >> stolen—or even dealing drugs.   
   >>   
   >> Data from the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department shows   
   >> police arrested 57 youths between the ages of 13 and 17 on suspicion   
   >> of dealing drugs between August 2023 and Feb. 8. The department said   
   >> that 55 of the 57 teens came from outside of the city.   
   >>   
   >> The department declined to provide further data on these children’s   
   >> cities of origin, their ages, demographic backgrounds or the   
   >> locations of their arrests. Court records about cases involving   
   >> juveniles are not normally available to the public, and requests to   
   >> view redacted copies were denied.   
   >>   
   >> But anecdotally, nonprofit workers and city employees said they’ve   
   >> seen an uptick in young people dealing drugs and stolen goods in the   
   >> Tenderloin since the pandemic began in 2020.   
   >>   
   >> “Sometimes you see groups of kids,” said Cheryl Thornton, an urban   
   >> health worker who mentors youth in the Bayview and Potrero Hill   
   >> neighborhoods. “I see them all around the Tenderloin.”   
   >>   
   >> https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/07/san-francisco-kids-selling-drugs-sto   
   >> len- goods/   
   >   
   > In NYC MS-13 is partnering with the newly arrived Venezuelan gangs to   
   > sell fake ID's and paperwork to the illegal migrants.   
   >   
   > This is just the start of the nightmare.   
   >   
   > Thank you Joe Biden.   
      
   This was starting when Newsom was there and he ignored it.  When you get   
   an influx of high-earning technology types in an area, all kinds of   
   markets suddenly appear.  Local government closed their eyes because of   
   all the money that was flowing.  Now that the money is gone, they are   
   left pointing fingers and blame.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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