SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is offering new details on the latest plan to get drug users off the streets and into drug treatment. The plan calls for the opening of a new sobering center. Not only will the people suffering from addiction get a path to treatment, but the police would be freed up to return to patrols quicker.

New sobering center

What we know:

Evidence of the city's drug crisis is not hard to find. But with the opening of sobering centers, like the one planned for 6th Street, across from the Hall of Justice, officers will be able to offer treatment as a way to address intoxicated people on the streets.

"It's unacceptable for our kids, for our families. Whether you're living in SoMa, living in the Mission District, you live here in the Tenderloin, w

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