Post by bennyp81 on Jun 15, 2005 10:56:17 GMT -8
Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 May 1st 9:03 PM
San Francisco Examiner: Thursday, May 1, 2003
Drug dealers like selling in The City
By J.K. Dineen
Of The Examiner Staff
Jessica Zuppo was an East Bay commuter -- but not a typical one. Every morning at the same time, police say, she boarded BART at the Ashby station in Berkeley and took it into The City, getting off at Civic Center amid the rush hour crowds.
Then she spent the day around Seventh and Market streets dealing heroin.
"She would go through about a half an ounce a day, and then get on BART and go home," said narcotics officer John Keane, who arrested
Zuppa on Wednesday.
"That is a good case," said Capt. Tim Hettrich.
"We've got a lot of these people coming in on BART and dealing on the streets and in some
cases on Muni trolleys."
Corners around BART stations have long been magnets for dealers coming in from the East Bay, Keane said.
In an operation last year called Operation Reclamation outside of BART stations in the Mission District, cops discovered that 45
percent of the suspects did not live in The City.
Hettrich said drug dealers are well aware of District Attorney Terence Hallinan's preference for treatment over jail time for addicts and non-violent first-time dealers.
"In other counties they will try the case as hard as they can," said Hettric. "Here they are afraid of losing.
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Art G
User ID: 9454293 May 2nd 12:21 AM
This is more of a location situation. The mission and market stops are already full of drug addicts and their suppliers, Bart or no Bart. I pray no LA NIMBY gets ahold of this, it will become a WASP panic attack.
Robert
User ID: 9934403 May 2nd 12:51 AM
This is the whole key why the Drug dealers go to SF. SFPD should work with...
to pick up the dealers with the goods before they board BART (Not "Bart" Art) and you would not have this problem in SF.
Bob
Art G
User ID: 9454293 May 2nd 12:44 PM
It doesnt matter what they do, these areas are pockets of poverty and drugs(the mission and tenderloin districts). Take the BART commuters out and someone else will pop up. Tough prosecutors and DA's do nothing to deter drug dealing, look at LA if you need examples.
Bert G
User ID: 0854544 May 2nd 1:05 PM
When I lived in the Tenderloin in 91-94 most of the drug dealers were commuters from the East Bay. It was a widely known fact. But what is more significant is not who sells the drugs, but who buys them. people in expensive cars pull up and buy the drugs. As long as there is a demand, there will always be a supplier.
PForce
User ID: 0596854 May 4th 12:31 AM
Why not deal with the question of drugs in much the same way that the more enlightened European governments have for years? Criminalizing what one chooses to do to one's body seems beyond the government's purview, especially when one is not able to comprehend his or her own acts or to control them because of mental illness or a severe addiction problem. Attempted suicide ceased to be a crime years ago.
I make these statements not an endorsement of either unprescribed drug use or suicide. but rather, a simple statement of facts. Yes, there are victims, many victims. These victims are certainly being devastated by an empidemic of illegal durg use. However, criminalizing drug use is equal to the failed policies of the criminalization of the use of alchohol. There were more innocent victims of the illegal use of alchohol in the 1920s due to gang activity than there were people actually dying from the illegal use of alchohol (ignoring here the effects of the dangerous use of moonshine that was made and distrubuted illicitly in those turbulent days).
User ID: 1606604 May 1st 9:03 PM
San Francisco Examiner: Thursday, May 1, 2003
Drug dealers like selling in The City
By J.K. Dineen
Of The Examiner Staff
Jessica Zuppo was an East Bay commuter -- but not a typical one. Every morning at the same time, police say, she boarded BART at the Ashby station in Berkeley and took it into The City, getting off at Civic Center amid the rush hour crowds.
Then she spent the day around Seventh and Market streets dealing heroin.
"She would go through about a half an ounce a day, and then get on BART and go home," said narcotics officer John Keane, who arrested
Zuppa on Wednesday.
"That is a good case," said Capt. Tim Hettrich.
"We've got a lot of these people coming in on BART and dealing on the streets and in some
cases on Muni trolleys."
Corners around BART stations have long been magnets for dealers coming in from the East Bay, Keane said.
In an operation last year called Operation Reclamation outside of BART stations in the Mission District, cops discovered that 45
percent of the suspects did not live in The City.
Hettrich said drug dealers are well aware of District Attorney Terence Hallinan's preference for treatment over jail time for addicts and non-violent first-time dealers.
"In other counties they will try the case as hard as they can," said Hettric. "Here they are afraid of losing.
Þ--Þ--Þ
Art G
User ID: 9454293 May 2nd 12:21 AM
This is more of a location situation. The mission and market stops are already full of drug addicts and their suppliers, Bart or no Bart. I pray no LA NIMBY gets ahold of this, it will become a WASP panic attack.
Robert
User ID: 9934403 May 2nd 12:51 AM
Hettrich said drug dealers are well aware of District Attorney Terence Hallinan's preference for treatment over jail time for addicts and non-violent first-time dealers.
This is the whole key why the Drug dealers go to SF. SFPD should work with...
"In other counties they will try the case as hard as they can," said Hettric. "Here they are afraid of losing.
to pick up the dealers with the goods before they board BART (Not "Bart" Art) and you would not have this problem in SF.
Bob
Art G
User ID: 9454293 May 2nd 12:44 PM
It doesnt matter what they do, these areas are pockets of poverty and drugs(the mission and tenderloin districts). Take the BART commuters out and someone else will pop up. Tough prosecutors and DA's do nothing to deter drug dealing, look at LA if you need examples.
Bert G
User ID: 0854544 May 2nd 1:05 PM
When I lived in the Tenderloin in 91-94 most of the drug dealers were commuters from the East Bay. It was a widely known fact. But what is more significant is not who sells the drugs, but who buys them. people in expensive cars pull up and buy the drugs. As long as there is a demand, there will always be a supplier.
PForce
User ID: 0596854 May 4th 12:31 AM
Why not deal with the question of drugs in much the same way that the more enlightened European governments have for years? Criminalizing what one chooses to do to one's body seems beyond the government's purview, especially when one is not able to comprehend his or her own acts or to control them because of mental illness or a severe addiction problem. Attempted suicide ceased to be a crime years ago.
I make these statements not an endorsement of either unprescribed drug use or suicide. but rather, a simple statement of facts. Yes, there are victims, many victims. These victims are certainly being devastated by an empidemic of illegal durg use. However, criminalizing drug use is equal to the failed policies of the criminalization of the use of alchohol. There were more innocent victims of the illegal use of alchohol in the 1920s due to gang activity than there were people actually dying from the illegal use of alchohol (ignoring here the effects of the dangerous use of moonshine that was made and distrubuted illicitly in those turbulent days).