[Behind the Blue Wall]

Yes, that's how it is. If you're not from San Francisco, do remember, however, that they are describing a more or less contiguous area in the middle of the city, The Tenderloin on the north, South of Market to the east, Civic Center to the west, and south into the Mission District, roughly a square mile out of the 49 that make up the city as a whole. The addicts and the drug dealers are generally commuting in from the East Bay. Outside of that area, there are hundreds of blocks of pristine neighborhoods occupied by the likes of Diane Feinstein and Nancy Polosi, where this type of behavior would never be tolerated.

[EagleUSA]

Just ANOTHER DemocRAT mecca pandering to every low-life voter group...destruction, filth, sickness and perversion, the hallmarks of the RAT party.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

There aren’t many jobs more thankless than being a cop in San Francisco. Pretty much everyone thinks of you as a fascist goon who needs to be reined in.

[Snickering Hound]

But at least they're recycling.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This seems to be a thing in Canada. Concede that people are going to do drugs and bang hookers, so just designate a strip of no-go territory and let them do it.

Never seems to have the desired impact of reducing crime to my knowledge.

[Hodar]

Yet another highly successful Democratic Utopia.
Compton, New Orleans, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and scores of others.

Yet even the blind cannot see the same threads in each

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I repeat the essential question - are the right people overdoing on opioids?

In California, I would tend to expect that these street urchin drug users are on MediCal - which is federally funded to the extent of as much as 90%. If CA wants to facilitate this reckless recreational drug use, they are doing so with other people's money. So, no news here.

Many myths foisted on us in this opioid epidemic. Such as "It can happen to anyone!" Er, no, it will not happen to those who never use opioids. And that is a lot of us. Educated, prudent, responsible citizens.

Back to the essential question. Now that the annual OD fatalities due opioids are in the low 70K range - are these people who would ultimately commit suicide by other means at some other time, or who would spend decades institutionalized (in prison or perhaps psychiatric hospitals) or otherwise riding the backs of taxpayers?