While month-to-month data on fatal fentanyl overdoses in San Francisco was not available before 2020, the city recorded 239 such deaths in 2019, an average of fewer than 20 per month.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-16/authorities-seized-4-2-kilos-of-fentanyl-near-the-tenderloin-thats-enough-to-theoretically-kill-millions

0:43. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week the California Highway Patrol seized enough fentanyl in San Francisco during the past six weeks to kill more than 2 million people, or nearly …

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/16/san-francisco-fentanyl-seized/70328959007/

California law enforcement officials have seized enough fentanyl, in San Francisco alone, to cause the deadly overdoses of more than 2 million people since the beginning of May.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/california-fentanyl-overdose-newsom-supervised-drug-use-san-francisco

Prior to becoming California’s governor in 2019, Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. The city’s Tenderloin neighborhood is rife with open-air drug use and dealing.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-authorities-seize-fentanyl-san-francisco-kill-citys/story?id=100097924

The San Francisco office market has been the hardest hit of any major city in the United States, with office vacancy rates rising to about 30 percent from 4 percent before the pandemic. This has …

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/business/westfield-mall-sf.html

Westfield is just the latest high-profile business to abandon the city. According to a tally from the San Francisco Standard, twenty retailers near San Francisco’s Union Square have closed their …

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/westfield-giving-up-sf-mall/index.html

The Westfield mall used to be the beating retail heart of downtown San Francisco. Westfield stopped paying the mortgage on the shopping mall, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Foot traffic has plunged, and the city is so expensive that some can’t afford to live there anymore. When a city becomes …

https://news.yahoo.com/san-franciscos-downtown-just-entered-233448815.html

The shooting is the second mass shooting to happen in the San Francisco Bay Area in just over 48 hours. Nine people were injured Friday night in a mass shooting at a Mission District block party …

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/1-dead-6-wounded-in-deadly-mass-shooting-at-antioch-birthday-party/

June 10, 2023, 2:12 AM PDT. By Joe Kottke and Leila Sackur. A manhunt has been launched by police in San Francisco after nine people were shot in a “targeted and isolated incident” Friday …

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/manhunt-launched-9-injured-targeted-san-francisco-mass-shooting-rcna88684

Sat 10 Jun 2023 08.41 EDT. Multiple victims were struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday night, but authorities said there were no fatalities …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/10/san-francisco-shooting-nine-wounded