joining us live now is bart ney with caltrans in san francisco, sheriff paul miyamoto, we appreciate your time. thank you both for being here. happy to do it. sheriff, i'd love to start with you. we know approximately 80 people were arrested for this demonstration. we saw many of them carted away in what we believe were sheriff's department busses. have all of those people been booked and what exactly are they being charged with? >> yes, they have been booked. and most have been cited and released at this time. we were transporting them off of the bridge to facilitate getting traffic back in flow, supporting the chp. we ended up with 81 arrests, one was transported down to our county jail at 425 seventh street. the remaining 80 were transported to an undisclosed booking location. >> and we heard from chp earlier today that they were working with the da to figure out exactly what they're going to be charged with. do you have any update on that right now? >> we have been on site releasing them to on charges both misdemeanors, unlawful assembly and also failure to disperse. >> okay. we

a trend sf sheriff paul miyamoto confirmed today. >> i think we've had about a 32% increase in our population since this time last year. tenderloin is part of the effort that we're involved in currently. we have a squad of deputies that go out and work in the community on foot patrol. and in these areas to try to get people to services is to disrupt drug sales. this new surge of inmates has forced them to reopen an annex at their san bruno jail location. and the challenge for us is we have limited space with the two jails that we operate currently. the annex gives us the opportunity to open up some bed space for people so we don't have everyone in congested living environments. >> these photos are giving us a glimpse into what that annex looks like. >> it's a dormitory style setting, so we have open space and it's a dorm space for up to 50 people right now. currently today we have 46in that housing space and we have the capacity to open up additional dorms if the count continues to increase. >> san francisco's district attorney, brooke jenkins, is also reporting an uptick in drug dealer arres

. >> so joining us right now to break it all down a san francisco sheriff paul miyamoto.so much for coming in. >> always happy to be here bright and early. >> i know. okay, let's talk about this annex first here. how is reopening the jail going to address overcrowding in jails? >> it's something that we're accustomed to doing from time to time. when our population fluctuates we want to make sure that we have enough space to keep people safe. the last time we've done this was back during the pandemic. when we wanted to make sure everybody was socially distanted. right now with an increase in our population, we've made the decision to open up the annex to make sure that we have that safe cushion for living arrangements for people. >> right. let's talk about recruitment. salesforce ceo marc benioff put on x the platform formerly known as twitter. but he talked about how we need to refund police, not defund police. and called for an increase in boots on the ground. how do you do that in that environment? because we know recruitment is a big deal for you. >> absolutely. and we