500 drug overdose deaths and three drug dealing convictions

This mismatch between politician's policy interests and the needs of the nation drives me crazy.  We now exceed 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year, much of it driven by fentanyl.  Politicians want to make it harder to buy cough syrup while thousands of families are hammered by fentanyl deaths.  

From DA Boudin and Fentanyl: Court Data Shows Just 3 Drug Dealing Convictions in 2021 as Immigration Concerns Shaped Policy by Anna Tong, Josh Koehn.

Despite a surging fentanyl crisis that killed nearly 500 people last year in San Francisco, the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin did not secure a single conviction for dealing the deadly opioid for cases filed during 2021, according to a review of court data.

Case information The Standard obtained from San Francisco Superior Court shows Boudin’s office secured just three total convictions for “possession with intent to sell” drugs in 2021: two for methamphetamine and one for a case including heroin and cocaine. By comparison, Boudin’s predecessor, George Gascón, oversaw over 90 drug-dealing convictions by the DA’s Office in 2018.

It is almost as if such politicians care not a whit for American lives.