San Francisco's drug, homeless crises exposed by citizen journalists
Fox News
San Francisco is suffering a drug abuse and homeless crisis with little coverage from local media. Now citizens are taking to social media to document the issue.
Armed with her cell phone and a sense of purpose, she chronicles the decay and drug use along San Francisco's famed Market Street, just steps from the city-run Tenderloin Center that claims to address these very problems. Claudia Cowan has served as FOX News Channel’s San Francisco-based senior correspondent for more than 20 years. She joined the network as a San Francisco correspondent in 1998.
Sandberg then tweets images she says convey a reality beyond what local media show. When Fox News traveled with her Oct. 3, she was highlighting drug use and homeless tents outside a bus shelter and subway elevator.