By Megan Cassidy | San Francisco Chronicle
Five months after local and national law enforcement officials launched crackdowns on San Francisco’s open-air drug markets, one longtime dealer said he won’t risk venturing into the Tenderloin much anymore.
“I’m scared,” he said in a recent interview, noting that he’s lately preferred to work construction shifts. The source, who has dealt drugs in San Francisco on and off for nearly two decades, said what was once a full-time job has been pared down to about an hour a week, and most of the other dealers he knows are avoiding the area as well.
“You go to the city, and it’s empty now.”
Increased undercover and surveillance operations have helped spike the number of people arrested in the city by local and federal police and curtail drug dealing during daytime hours in the open-air markets in the Tenderloin and South of Market areas.
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