"Just take a look around, and you see people addicted to fentanyl, crystal meth… heroin," McCray told Ingraham."You got your crack cocaine still, but you got your garden variety of all the type of drugs, and this is where you're going to find people who are on all of these different drugs just walking around."
"You're going to go down the street and you're going to see someone who is shooting up... right in broad daylight," she continued. During her visit, Ingraham spoke with one addict on the street who said she is married and has children, but has"To me, fentanyl has been… like something that's helping keeping me alive. It helps me not think about some of the trauma that I've been through," she told Ingraham in an emotional moment.
"When I don't get it… I can't breathe sometimes, or I have anxiety really bad, but when I have it… I immediately calm down. I immediately calm down," she continued. Laura Ingraham hugs an addict during an emotional interview in San Francisco McCray noted the police department's staffing shortages are a significant factor in the city's spiraling drug and crime crises, although police cannot be the"only solution" to the areas multi-faceted tragedies.
An audit of state records previously revealed the San Francisco Police Department even hired dozens of eitherShe said the city is down almost 600 police officers.