Drug Users Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station

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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Shocking video is calling attention to what’s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: drug users blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors. It’s a gauntlet commuters walk through every morning at the Civic Center BART and Muni station.

Regular commuter Shannon Gafford knows people have to see it to believe it. “One morning I said, ‘I got to pull out the camera and show my friends this. They’re not going to believe it,’” he said. And over the course of a week, Gafford documented his trip to work. His videos show dozens of people slumped along a hallway, open IV drug use, unconscious men and women, and piles of vomit on either side of the hallways. Some may find the video shocking. Others may find it routine.

“Every day. Every morning. 5:30 to 6 o’clock. You can see there’s dozens of them. Needles everywhere. Crack. Heroin.”

“It’s a real concern for our riders, and we appreciate that,” said BART spokesman Chris Filippi. “But what we have to do is make the most of the resources, the limited resources that we have.”

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/drug-users-san-francisco-civic-center-bart/

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Good grief..

The dude in the white coat bent over while standing, is going to need an tylenol for the back ache tomorrow. Sad state of affairs. Afghanistan Heroin has been cheap for almost 2 decades now, thanks GWB. ugh.

[Nevernose]

3. Afghan heroin is almost exclusively for the European market

Virtually 100% of heroin in the US is grown and produced in Mexico.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Hmm

Good to know.
Regardless, It's a source that shouldn't be there. We should've eradicated the Afghan Heroin by now kinda like the Coca Fields in Colombia were hit in times past. Lord knows our soldiers had the time and machines to destroy most of it.

[TheFrenchRazor]

6. drugs will never be eradicated. the military/police war on drugs is nothing but a scam to terrorize

terrorize, control, and incarcerate the masses. education, jobs, and good health care will do more to reduce drug use than any thing currently practiced by the drug warriors.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. It's a hundred times worse on the surface of the stations

16th and Mission and the Tenderloin esp. I worked in that area from 2000 to 2005, the sidewalks were crowded with people shooting up in plain view. Worse yet, the gutters were an open sewer of urine and worse, the smell was horrendous and even bad blocks away.
riding BART into the area you could smell it as you approached.

That is not the only area of the city with the problem. Haight-Asbury, same thing

This is a public health issue, which has been ignored for years now.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Richest nation in the world..

if you happen to fall in the 1%. Such a damn shame.

[TheFrenchRazor]

7. seems like at least half the problem is homelessness. nt