San Francisco

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In 20 21, his office managed three convictions for drug dealing. Under his predecessor, there were 90 convictions in that year alone. I spent some time in the city's tenderloin district, which is an area hit really hard by drugs. Many people are armed. There are drug dealers here who tend to enforce their trade with machettes. If you're afraid of something, you may be detecting something important.

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