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Operation Safe Home
Operation Safe Home is a joint DOJ/HUD initiative that seeks to reduce crime and violence in public housing through interagency cooperative efforts. In San Francisco, the Federal Narcotics Task Force, a task force of HUD and DEA agents and officers of the San Francisco Police Department, has developed two strategies to combat crime in HUD housing in San Francisco. The first strategy targets individuals known to the SFPD's Narcotics Bureau as major drug dealers with gang affiliations in several public housing projects. The network of illegal narcotics distribution encompasses at least six different housing projects as well as several multi-family Section 8 developments in San Francisco neighborhoods. The goal of this operation is to combat drug sources that fuel the high level of drug activity that has remained unabated for years. The second strategy of the Task Force is to conduct surveillance, make street-level buys that are captured on tape, and invoke a State gang enhancement statute to increase mandatory sentences.
From January 1999 to June 1999 the Task Force executed 28 search warrants and made 121 narcotics arrests, 5 homicide arrests, and 7 robbery arrests. During the same period the Task Force seized $218,460 in U S currency and recovered 37 firearms. In addition, drug seizures included 7.5 pounds of heroin, 15 pounds of cocaine, 3 pounds of methamphetamine, and 2 pounds of marijuana.
In addition to concerted law enforcement efforts, the Task Force conducts major post-enforcement activities, which include working with housing project management on such matters as improving lighting in the project, installing sprinklers to deter loitering, and establishing Drug Free zones. HUD provides funding to SFPD's Operation Dream for post-enforcement activities such as barbecues and sending kids to Operation Dream camps.
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