San Francisco police crack down on pot in Haight-Ashbury
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
... The undercover captain said he wanted $20 worth of marijuana, pocketed his purchase and disappeared into the park. Moments later, a team of officers swooped in to arrest the unsuspecting seller.
The police operation was one of 50 undercover busts San Francisco police Capt. Greg Corrales has led since transferring to the Haight-Ashbury district in June to lead a crackdown on street-level marijuana dealing. In a buy-bust operation, an undercover officer poses as a customer and buys drugs from an individual he or she suspects of selling them.
To many residents, the arrests are a welcome relief in a neighborhood they say is overrun by aggressive vagrants and dealers. But to marijuana legalization activists and residents who fondly recall the Haight of the 1960s, the campaign represents a return to a time of zero tolerance for peace, love and pot.
In the district that was the birthplace of the hippie revolution, police are jailing suspects for amounts of marijuana that, in a possession case, would amount to a $100 ticket.
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