To state the bleeding obvious: human waste is a vector for the rapid spread of disease. It’s why we’ve spent billions, even trillions, on sewers, plumbing, the invention of chemicals, etc.
Bureaucracy is bad enough but ideologically-driven bureaucracy is much, much worse. If you let a rabies-infected raccoon loose in someone’s home the state would throw you under the jail. They’re also rather keen to inspect and fine a restaurant chef who absent-mindedly left the lid off a food container for a few minutes.
But people - homeless or otherwise - are permitted to deposit their own filth in public, endangering everyone round the clock and literally making it difficult to impossible to live and work in a city where they pay exorbitant taxes regardless of their political affiliation.
The government’s response is to make excuses, toss out some bizarre flannel about ‘clients’ of shelters, etc.
Sleeping in a tent and wearing rags is not a license for exemption from the law.
The solution is more 2 million dollar personal sanitation units to be installed in affluent areas, and re-education of the homeless that they’re not to poop in front of headline businesses in SF. Oh, and more regulation to prevent anyone else from making a startup charity to help address the problem to protect the existing city/county funded charities from competition.
This will of course be a fine solution, unless you’re one of those annoying people who call in constantly from the Dog Patch about homeless defecating on your property. The solution to that problem is to start addressing such calls as harassment and abuse of city services.
To SF, my consulting fee for this solution is $750,000, payable via cashier’s check only.
A most excellent post. But such logic has no place in Her Honor’s world.