Mayor Ed Lee of San Francisco has given the green light to a plan which could allow chronic drunks to be sentenced to locked treatment for up to a whopping six months, according to a recent report.

This isn’t all too shocking coming from a city which has pushed for an outrageous outdoor smoking ban and a city which has a history of disturbing officer-involved shootings.

Mayor Lee claims that the current approach taken by police of simply releasing drunks once they’ve sobered up is not working since they just revert to their old ways immediately after.

“We've done pretty well at getting some of these individuals to a point where they clean up a little bit - but when you leave them alone, they go right back to their old ways,” Lee said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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