Posted on 08/25/2019 3:44:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Throughout most of its history, San Francisco has been known as the beautiful “city by the bay.” It has wonderful scenery, the Golden Gate bridge, the cable cars, Pier 39 among other wonderful cultural attractions. Sadly, it is also led by unhinged progressives who are in the process of destroying this unique city.
While there is incredible wealth in San Francisco, along with plenty of high-tech corporate headquarters, there is also a growing poverty crisis. Currently, according to the city’s own definition, there are approximately 10,000 homeless people living in San Francisco. This represents a shocking 30% increase in just the last two years.
Not only are poor people living in tents, cars, on the sidewalks and under bridges, but they are also defecating and urinating on the streets. In a recent survey
of downtown San Francisco, 300 piles of human feces were discovered by investigators. This has forced the city to hire a squad of employees dedicated to cleaning up the increasing mess of bodily waste on the streets.
Of course, with thousands of people using the streets as a bathroom, the rodent and health problems have exploded. San Francisco has become not only an eyesore, but a biological hazard, which could lead to the spread of deadly diseases such as rotavirus, hepatitis and HIV among many others.
The calamity has been aggravated by a breakdown in the criminal justice system as liberal judges refuse to put offenders in jail. Recently, a homeless man, Austin Vincent, with a record of assault and attempted robbery was released by Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken. After an uproar from the public and other city leaders, the judge did not reverse her decision and send the disturbed man to prison, but she allowed him to remain free with an ankle monitor.
San Francisco is the home of tolerance for criminals, which has a direct impact on the homeless catastrophe. It was also exacerbated by the passage of Proposition 47 by California voters in 2014. The measure downgraded the punishment for certain “non-violent” crimes such as forgery, shoplifting and using illegal drugs. With fewer drug addicted people in prison or in treatment, more have found a home on the streets of San Francisco.
It seems clear that a tolerant attitude towards drugs in San Francisco has accelerated the homeless problem. Among the homeless are drug addicted zombies who are given
free needles in the city so they can shoot up and continue their unhealthy lifestyle.
An amazing total of 4.45 million free needles are given away by the city every year. It should surprise no one that this program increases not only drug addiction, but also trash in San Francisco as the needles end up as litter on the streets.
Along with the drug addicted, the homeless population also includes mentally ill individuals who are not being served in the area hospitals. In addition, some city officials are blaming the skyrocketing housing prices for forcing residents onto the streets. For example, a yearly income of over $117,000 for a family of four is not enough to survive in San Francisco. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would qualify for low income status in the city.
Thus, San Francisco is a tale of two cities, one for the uber rich and the other for the struggling middle class and the poor who cannot survive financially. Liberal leaders have not been able to grow the middle class, deal with the homeless problem, or keep the city safe.
Rather than worry about the growing number of victims, city leaders seem to be more concerned about how criminals are treated. For example, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution that targets such words as “felon,” “inmate,” “convict,” or “prisoner.” According to the geniuses on the board, such words are “dehumanizing” and “make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal.”
Thus, in the Orwellian city of San Francisco, it preferred that phrases such as “currently incarcerated person,” or “young person impacted by the justice system” be used to replace the supposedly racist language.
Clearly, San Francisco is not dealing with the liberal policies at the root of such problems as homelessness or crime. Instead, city leaders are attacking the language so they will not be accused of racism and criminals can feel better about themselves.
This is a city with “woke” leaders desperately trying to implement the latest politically correct polices, while problems are exploding on their watch. It is a sad state of affairs, in fact, it might be called criminal, but, unfortunately, that word is no longer allowed in San Francisco.
Maybe there will come a literal plague on San Francisco. What proportion of the population will have to die before the Leftist leaders wake up?
Criminality by government is still criminality.
JoMa
San Francisco, the DemocRAT Poopy City.
“What proportion of the population will have to die before the Leftist leaders wake up?”
No amount of deaths will make a difference. Their “well-intentions” for the greater good outweigh human life!
At some point, the plague will be noticed by some public-service doctor, and a couple of regular tax-paying residents will find they’ve gotten it. It won’t take more than a couple of weeks for residents decide to burn out the tent-city operations, and chase people out of town.
But the question will be....where do they go? Where do 20-odd-thousand people go run off to? I just see this developing into a six-month period of state chaos, public reaction, cops afraid to stand up against the homeless crowd or the reactionary crowd, and turmoil.
Just read this at TH
One of the commenters there actually blames this on conservatives in SF
As if those dozen or so non-liberals in the city have any sway over policies
Sodom and Gomorrah and the results were written about a long time ago...
Their destruction of this country is coming to fruition... Ll they have to do is get rid of Trump and conservatives and they can complete their plan.
Building bridges is not progress.
They bring crowds, high taxes, and standstill roadways.
BRIDGES LACK BOUNDARIES
The small towns had better boundaries pre bridge.
Bridges bring high property taxes. Better to rent out your house and move to a better place. Let the liberal renters live there, decades stagnating without progress.
Towns need better boundaries like high walls with a limiting gate.
Or cities need high capacity multilane highways. 8 lanes leaving but only 4 lanes coming.
Cities are built by sh*thole planners who have no expertise except a Govt approved degree. They ruin cities.
City planners hate you and hate your car.
You have quite the imagination....
It’s to the point where what criminals are doing is San Fransisco.
SF is an example of socialism.
The socialists never admit they make mistakes.
Embracing the homeless, sanctuary for illegals, free needles are all failures as policies.
Conservatives told them that these policies would lead to more homelessness, more crime and increased drug use.
But socialists will never end those programs....they double-down, increase spending, increase their power and foster the spiraling down of the community.
...and the socialists do not care. They have their own schools, their own security, their own healthcare. The socialists have removed themselves from everything they create for the masses.
No where on foot. There's "Death Valley" and hundreds of miles of harsh desert between CA and both Arizona and Nevada.
When we used to got to CA before my wife started feeling uncomfortable about it, we'd drive through incredibly deadly territory to get to LA or SD.
CA would have to bus them. I think they would do it knowing they are carriers.
Liberals blame the anti-vaxxers for any communicable diseases.
They take responsibility for nothing.
They recently had a medical conference there, and a doctor from India was so disgusted that he simply done with that place, much worse than anything he sees back home, and he’s never going back to that city.
Libs don’t care if they hold power for a million years. All unforseen consequences of their idiotic leadership is always the fault of conservatives, simply because conservatism exists. They have no logic and reasoning skills, and they lack the common sense found even in children.
In the twisted, diseased mind of a SF liberal, the fact that no conservative holds sway over city policy is neither here nor there.
I keep seeing people who expect libs to either learn from their myriad mistakes, or wonder why they do not. Conservatives, who assume that since a given city has been under dem rule for 40 years, their leadership MUST realize that the fault lies with them. That’s not gonna happen. In their own delusional lunacy, they are perfect beings, incapable of doing wrong, and we are filth, fit only for extermination.
The leftists will never “wake up”, no matter how bad things get, no matter how many people die, because they already consider themselves “woke”.
About 20 years ago we taxed ourselves to shore up the levees in order to prevent flooding, and now we have homeless people digging into those same levees in order to level the ground for their tents and local authorities don't do a damn thing about it.
Lunacy.
Not enough Mike Stone types to arrest all of criminal enablers in SF.
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