People gathered at San Francisco City Hall Sunday for a demonstration over public safety concerns in the area.
From open air drug markets, fentanyl and not feeling safe in some neighborhoods.
“We want cleaner streets. We want a safer environment,” said organizer Ricci Wynne.
A few dozen people gathered outside city hall.
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“Everybody is lowering their standards to accommodate other people’s drug habits. When we can’t have a supermarket in our neighborhood because of rampant public drug use and brazen drug dealing and acting out,” said San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey.
Dorsey attended the rally and spoke to NBC Bay Area about his plans.
“That's why one of the things I’m going to be doing as a supervisor is sponsoring a charter amendment, to make sure we get to full police staffing,” he added. “There's other things some people won’t like. I’m also going to be standing up for supervised consumption sites just because when with something as deadly as fentanyl, let’s give people somewhere to go.”
But some are opposed to the idea of supervised consumption sites, questioning how the city is handling the crisis on the streets.
“It’s too much drugs, too much open air drugs, too many deaths. I see plenty of deaths out there, personally myself,” said JJ Smith of San Francisco.
A few people called out what they heard from the speakers of the rally.
"The point that I'm trying to make is that we are giving way too much money towards police forces. $25 million in OT, as opposed to $25 million being dedicated towards building public housing," said one resident.
NBC Bay Area caught up with San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and asked her about the new U.S. attorney and the help the city is hoping to get.
“We are hoping that we can really enhance the partnership with his office to try and address this from multiple different directions,” she said.
