In a letter dated March 27, 2023, San Francisco Mayor London Breed sent a letter to Ismail Ramsey at the Department of Justice. In this letter Breed requests federal assistance with:

fentynal-driven overdose epidemic, open-air drug dealing, property crime in our residential and commercial neighborhoods, increasing gun violence, and prejudice-fueled incidents.

She goes on to say:

“… however the scale of the problem is beyond our local capacity. We need additional and ongoing support from the Department of Justice to arrest and prosecute drug dealers…”