As of August 17, 2024, the District Attorney’s Office has been presented with 563 felony narcotics cases and filed 483 cases this year.  In the same time period there have been 151 felony narcotics convictions and 90 guilty pleas to another case.

As of August 17, 2024, there are more felony narcotics sales cases in Bench Warrant Status (829) than pending before the court (559).  Bench warrants are issued by the court in cases where defendants who are out of custody fail to appear in court for a mandated hearing.

As of August 17, 2024, there are 644 individuals with open bench warrants who failed to appear for narcotics sales cases who were released by the court.   Of these individuals in bench warrant status, 146 of them have more than one open case. Eight individuals have four open cases and one individual has five open cases.

As of August 17, 2024, there are 461 individuals with pending cases for narcotics sales cases.  Of these individuals, 75 of them have more than one open case.  Three individuals have four open cases.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office is a committed partner in the ongoing efforts to support the comprehensive violence intervention and public safety strategies addressing the fentanyl crisis. As a city rich with diversity and home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, and workers, San Francisco must collectively support individuals in need of harm reduction and/or drug overdose interventions and ensure public safety services and programs are available as appropriate.

Shortly after taking office, District Attorney Jenkins revoked over 30 lenient plea offers related to narcotics cases made by the previous administration that had not been accepted. Additionally, District Attorney Jenkins quickly implemented new policies for prosecutors on how narcotics cases would be handled moving forward, such as establishing a drug use and possession citation bundling policy to help steer users into treatment. The new policies are rooted in saving lives of individuals impacted by epidemic levels of drug addiction and violence, while providing alternative pathways.

As a result, narcotics cases are now being properly investigated. Prosecutors are advancing public safety arguments to detain egregious drug dealers of fentanyl or repeat offenders selling this deadly poison, and requesting they be held in custody while their cases are pending