SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2 — President Donald Trump vowed this year to flood San Francisco with federal agents – and even soldiers – to crack down on crime. Instead, his administration has quietly taken law enforcement away, leaving the city with less help to fight its deadly drug crisis.

The number of people charged with federal crimes in San Francisco and surrounding cities through November 1 of this year plunged 40% from the same period of 2024, one of the most abrupt retreats from prosecuting drug traffickers, gun criminals and other accused lawbreakers anywhere in the United States, a Reuters examination of more than 15 million federal court records found.

The number of people charged with violating drug laws dropped even further, by about 50%, to 137, according to Reuters’ analysis.

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