Planned police‐run sobering center reflects San Francisco policy turn

San Francisco's gradual shift toward a more enforcement‐focused approach to combating the city's drug crisis continues, with the latest announcement from the city administration sharing plans for a police‐involved sobering center to link drug users to treatment. A researcher and longtime observer of drug policy in the Bay Area characterizes the approach of Mayor Daniel Lurie's administration as seeking a middle ground between a carceral drug war and past leadership's “anything goes” mindset that many blame for damaging the city's everyday quality of life.