I spend time at our old house in a nice town on the San Francisco peninsula. Last April or May, a bum was sleeping on a public bench in front of the local Safeway grocery store. I called the cops and got the “there’s nothing we can do - he isn’t breaking any laws” story. I began screaming at the woman about me paying taxes to live in a nice, safe town and bums in town were creating an unsafe environment. “Sorry, sir, there’s nothing we can do.”
It is so damn infuriating.
It’s one of the reasons I say in a northern state. Winter keeps the bums out of the state for the most part.