Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco’s poshest neighborhoods—that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the Tenderloin, one of the most drug-infested corners of the city.
In 2019, when President Donald Trump was in his first term and Bill Barr was serving as attorney general, David Anderson, who was then the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, announced a special program aimed at improving life in the Tenderloin.
“The program, called the Federal Initiative for the Tenderloin, brings together the resources of more than 15 federal law enforcement agencies to combat endemic drug trafficking, firearms offenses, robberies, and other crime in the neighborhood,” said a press release Anderson’s office published on Aug. 7, 2019.
The U.S. attorney’s online posting of this release included a link to another press…
