Ricci Wynne is a former drug dealer who got clean and sober and told John & Ken why San Francisco continues to get worse.
Ricci Wynne, a former San Francisco drug dealer who is now an activist calling for reform in the city, said the situation downtown is getting worse.
“The more department stores and other places that close down, the more the ones still remaining become targets of theft, loitering, drug use, and overall unsafe condition,” he said.
One recent news analysis showed that San Francisco is last among 63 large American cities in regard to the return of post-pandemic activity downtown. The analysis of cell-phone data showed that activity in downtown San Francisco is only at 29 percent of its 2019 level, according to a report by the San Francisco’s ABC affiliate this month.
Wynne agreed that there is no one cause of the downtown disorder. He pointed at Proposition 47, passed by voters in 2014, which decreased penalties for several nonviolent offenses, including drug use and theft. Under the law, criminals caught stealing items worth less than $950 face only a misdemeanor.