San Francisco police move to clamp down
on rampant drug dealing

Bay City News

November 14, 2007

Undercover officers arrested 104 suspected drug dealers during a weeklong operation that ended Saturday in San Francisco's Tenderloin and Mission districts, police said yesterday.

The San Francisco Police Department's Gang Task Force and Narcotics Division said undercover officers, some from visiting departments, arrested the suspects after purchasing various drugs from them such as heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine.

The districts were targeted because of violence there stemming from street drug sales, police said.

In October, an undercover operation arrested 103 suspected drug dealers in the Market Street and Mission district areas, police said.

The clamp down is welcomed news for residents of the Tenderloin District who are forced to endure a daily onslaught of rampant street drug dealing, who live in fear of their lives from drug related gun violence.

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