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Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets
AP via KCRA (Sacramento) ^ | April 30th, 2018 | Unattributed

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; dopersrights; drugsarebadmkay; sanfranpsycho; sanfransicko; tolerancekills
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Even the commies in SF are fed up.

But, they are too stupid to fix it.

They'll try to fix it with more services.

1 posted on 04/30/2018 4:54:17 PM PDT by Mariner
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Send all the illegals there where they can live in the streets too. Oh ... I am sorry. We provide housing and food for them.


2 posted on 04/30/2018 4:56:30 PM PDT by boycott
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Pan-handlers
Poo Poo
Parking Tickets

THAT is SanFran.


3 posted on 04/30/2018 5:02:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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Fed up. But will they vote any different?


4 posted on 04/30/2018 5:03:23 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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7 posted on 04/30/2018 5:05:07 PM PDT by gaijin
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They need to do an armed sweep, and roust all these vagrants out of there and onto outbound buses with a one-way ticket to Portland or Seattle.
 
8 posted on 04/30/2018 5:06:25 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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Well......duh.


9 posted on 04/30/2018 5:07:03 PM PDT by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who don't)
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10 posted on 04/30/2018 5:07:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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The SF cops moved in last week and dismantled an “encampment” that literally took up several blocks of sidewalk downtown. Immediately, they were attacked in the media for doing so, and the homeless industry representatives were screaming their heads off.

Farrell is going to find it very hard to get past the city’s professional “friends of the homeless “ (the “homeless” should also be referred to as raving lunatics and substance abusers), because they have a stake in keeping all this squalor going.


11 posted on 04/30/2018 5:07:18 PM PDT by livius
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Obvious solution - more spending, more taxes, and more illegals. Go for it SF. Yes you can!


12 posted on 04/30/2018 5:08:33 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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“Farrell is going to find it very hard to get past the city’s professional “friends of the homeless “ (the “homeless” should also be referred to as raving lunatics and substance abusers), because they have a stake in keeping all this squalor going.”

Correct.

There are several hundred, if not more than a thousand, that make their living “servicing” the homeless.

And they are loud. And all their friends are lawyers, and embedded commies in government.


13 posted on 04/30/2018 5:11:51 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Interesting figures. 850,000 residents. over 10 billion city budget. That is almost $11,764.70 for every man, woman, and child in San Francisco every year.

The budget for Phoenix, Arizona, is $2,476.78 per year per person. 1,610,000 residents, 4 billion city budget.

San Francisco spends almost five times as much per person as does Phoenix!


14 posted on 04/30/2018 5:12:57 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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TFB! Tolerance only gets you so far. Then not.


15 posted on 04/30/2018 5:14:03 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Let San Francisco rot in their own filth.

This is an unforced error on their part. They did this to themselves.

Idiot liberals.

16 posted on 04/30/2018 5:17:03 PM PDT by HotHunt
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I left my stink, in San Francisco...

The elitists aren’t affected by this assault on common folk sensibilities. They are far removed.


17 posted on 04/30/2018 5:17:24 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Are you trying to disenfranchise voters?


18 posted on 04/30/2018 5:19:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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“The elitists aren’t affected by this assault on common folk sensibilities. They are far removed.”

They like to go downtown to eat, and for Opera and Symphony.


19 posted on 04/30/2018 5:19:50 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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WELL when they give a single janitor nearly $250,000 for 1 year, you can see they are pissing away tax dollars.


20 posted on 04/30/2018 5:20:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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