"Rising Fentanyl Deaths Prompt Murder Charges in California"

Riverside County, California, is aggressively prosecuting fentanyl suppliers, with the district attorney filing murder charges in 34 fentanyl-related deaths. This approach is seen as a shift in the city's approach to drug-related crimes, with even liberal San Francisco's district attorney's office preparing to investigate fentanyl deaths as possible homicides. However, some critics fault the prosecution of street dealers as a return to aggressive approaches of the 1990s, which failed to curb drug use and swelled state prison populations.