{"id":2000207,"date":"2023-08-14T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-in-san-francisco-urged-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:53:49","slug":"federal-workers-in-san-francisco-urged-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-in-san-francisco-urged-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco federal workers advised to telecommute due to crime."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-workers-in-san-francisco-urged-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Government Workers Urged to Work from Home in San Francisco<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some\u200d federal government workers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/san-francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> have been urged to work from home indefinitely due to public safety concerns\u200b near their office building.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials at the Department of Health and Human\u200d Services (HHS) told hundreds of employees \u200dwho work in the Nancy Pelosi\u2062 Federal Building to work remotely\u2063 if they can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the conditions at the [federal building] we recommend employees \u2026 maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,\u201d Cheryl Campbell, HHS Assistant\u2062 Secretary for Administration, wrote in an August 4 memo to employees, which was\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obtained<\/a> by The San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis recommendation should be extended\u200b to all Region IX employees, \u2064including those not currently utilizing telework flexibilities,\u201d Campbell wrote, referring to an HHS work zone that includes California, Arizona, and Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-story federal building \u2062includes offices of several\u2063 federal agencies, including HHS, the Labor Department, the Transportation Department, and one of Representative Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) offices.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, one of San Francisco\u2019s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-in-san-francisco-urged-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime\/\" title=\"San Francisco federal workers advised to telecommute due to crime.\">worst open-air drug markets rages<\/a>, with dealers and addicts \u2063doing business in\u2064 broad daylight daily. Addicts often\u200d hang out and use drugs on the federal \u2064building\u2019s concrete benches,\u200c the Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n<p>In June, two men were charged with attempting to deal drugs in full view of the federal\u200c building\u2019s surveillance \u200ccameras, the U.S. Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndca\/pr\/san-francisco-residents-charged-allegedly-committing-crimes-front-surveillance-cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a press release. One \u2063of the men was in possession of a gun\u200b when he was arrested and may have fired a gun at someone near the \u200bbuilding months earlier, \u200dthe U.S. \u200cAttorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Certain types of violent\u200d crime are up this year in\u2063 San Francisco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanfranciscopolice.org\/stay-safe\/crime-data\/crime-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to police data.<\/p>\n<p>Murders in San Francisco are up 20% to 35 murders so far. Robberies \u200bare up 14% to 1,611 robberies so far. Car thefts are up 13% to 4,119 thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u2062San Francisco\u2019s homelessness \u2062and drug crises are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/att-closing-flagship-store-in-downtown-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still raging<\/a>, although overdose \u2063deaths have dropped \u2063from\u200d their all-time high in 2020 during\u2062 the\u200b thick of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, San Francisco\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.gov\/news\/accidental-overdose-deaths-decline-san-francisco-second-consecutive-year-fentanylopioid\">saw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge\/\" title=\"Residents of San Francisco and Oakland are increasingly anxious due to rising crime rates and homelessness.\">620 fatal drug overdoses<\/a>, down from \u200c640 overdose deaths in 2021. In 2020, overdose \u2063deaths spiked to 725.<\/p>\n<p>Homelessness in San\u2064 Francisco has only gotten worse\u200b since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are homeless<\/a> in the Bay Area on a \u2064given night, up 35% since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s\u2063 office said she \u200bhas\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-prime-minister-calls-for-world-to-act-before-iran-becomes-nuclear\/\" title=\"Israeli prime minister calls for world to act before Iran becomes nuclear\">recently raised concerns<\/a> about the federal building\u2019s safety, although \u2062her staff has not been told to \u200bwork from home.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of workers in our federal buildings has always been a priority for Speaker \u200dEmerita Pelosi, whether in the building or on\u200d their commutes,\u201d Pelosi spokesperson Aaron\u2064 Bennett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> \u2062 the Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal, state and local law enforcement \u2014 in coordination with\u200c public health officials\u200b and stakeholders\u2062 \u2014 are working hard to address \u200cthe acute crises of fentanyl \u200ctrafficking and related violence in certain \u2064areas of the city,\u201d the Pelosi spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA) reacted to the HHS memo on Sunday, \u2063saying San Francisco \u2063offers a warning to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime in San Francisco is so out-of-control that employees at the Federal Building are being told to\u2062 stay home,\u201d Kiley\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinKileyCA\/status\/1690859575296270336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> Sunday on X, the platform formerly known\u2064 as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf\u2063 California offers a preview of \u200cwhere\u2063 our \u2062country \u200dis \u2064headed, San\u200c Francisco offers an\u200b even starker warning,\u201d the lawmaker said. \u201cThis is where failed policies,\u200c radical politics, and public corruption are in their most advanced stage \u2013 and \u200bwhere residents are most rapidly fleeing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>public safety concerns, federal government workers in San Francisco have been advised by the Department of Health and Human Services to work from home indefinitely. Hundreds of employees at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building have been urged to work remotely if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2000208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}