Posted on 04/30/2018 4:54:16 PM PDT by Mariner
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Though known for its compassion to the needy, San Francisco may have hit peak saturation with tent camps, stinky urine and trash littering the streets, and the new interim mayor has vowed to do something about it.
In the last few weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has promised $750,000 to hire more people just to pick up discarded needles and $13 million over the next two years for more heavy duty steam cleaners and pit stop toilets. He also had workers dismantle sprawling homeless tent camps in the city's Mission District.
The city famed for its picture-perfect views of the San Francisco Bay has long tolerated overflowing trash bins and homeless people camped out on sidewalks. Commuters routinely walk past people slumped over in transit stations, sometimes shooting up in public.
But Farrell and others say the squalor has gotten out of control, and that everyone should feel safe using city sidewalks. It is not humane to let the mentally ill or houseless fester outdoors, he said.
"The trash, our homeless, the needles, the drug abuse on our streets, I've seen it all in our city and it's gotten to the point where we need to really change course," Farrell said in an interview. "We've gone away from just being compassionate to enabling street behavior and that, in my opinion, is a shift that's unacceptable."
It's not just the mayor who's fed up. Cleaning up the city and getting people off the streets have become key issues in the upcoming mayoral race. Many of the problems are in the city's downtown shopping and South of Market corridors, but elected officials say complaints have rolled in from across the city of 850,000 residents.
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The Haight-Ashbury model spreads out.
Reasons 409 through 517 why I’m glad I don’t live there. Sympathy to FReepers who do. Hard to imagine.
More lib/fascist auto-da-fe.
Need more popcorn.
We could run the entire State of Alaska on San Francisco’s budget.
Look at all the professional bleeding hearts trying to get that poor man back on his feet! I love it when they lead from the front like that.
You are referring all the city council members there and other liberal leaders?
It’s liberal utopia.
Step 1. Reopen insane asylums and involuntary commitment.
Step 2. Put cops back on the beat and have them tell vagrants keep moving, no sleeping on park benches, in parks, on sidewalks, etc. Give them bus tickets out of town.
Step 3. Jail bums for vagrancy.
It all worked before. The solution isn’t rocket surgery.
“Even the commies in SF are fed up.”
ONLY because it’s now affecting their access to ‘other peoples money’, as in convention and tourism income. I think it was the annual Gaming Convention there last month when they finally blew the lid off and said that their people (the Gamers) can no longer tolerate what’s become of that city. Because of that, the city could no longer get away with acting like Baltimore, which uses a city government and a local media to hide the fact that whites visiting the ‘Inner Harbor’ are now SITTING DUCKS for the locals to rob and pillage. In a FUNCTIONAL city, this kind of crap would be daily headlines - but when the media considers it racist to report on crime (because one race does it more), then uninformed people (the whites) keep heading straight into the ambush.
But no longer for SF, the cat’s out of the bag, and they know it won’t end well if they don’t clean things up, AND FAST.
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#1. They got what they voted for so let them live in their own filth and squalor.
I don’t think you could get the PROG/LIB/COMMIE actors to wade through the human sh!t that covers the “STREETS of SAN FRANCISCO”.
Let liberals rule the roost long enough and the roost degenerates into a slum and then keeps rotting.....
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