San Francisco residents are fed up with city officials’ lack of action on open-air drug use.

Tucked deep in San Francisco's sixth district is Dodge Place, a residential street located in the notorious Tenderloin neighborhood.

In effect, the dead-end street is at the end of a funnel, into which flow customers from San Francisco's most rampant illegal drug trade.

As mayhem in the Tenderloin intensifies, many who have just made drug purchases drift over to Dodge Place so that they can use away from the drama.

Dodge Place residents have tried to get the city to take action, begging for basic safety measures and help for those suffering and dying from drug addiction.

A Twitter page, Dodge Place Tenderloin SF, showcases what residents experience every minute of each day with graphic videos and photos, but San Francisco officials collectively shrug their shoulders.

The public health department has opted for harm-reduction methods over detox and rehabilitation, providing people in the throes of addiction with fresh drug supplies and celebrating their ability to revive overdosing people with Narcan-until, of course, they can't.

With the enactment of Proposition 47, a California law that reclassified many drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, places like the Tenderloin have become uncontrolled narcotic battlegrounds.

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