San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless (deep dive article)

City Journal ^ | Autumn, 2019 | Heather Mac Donald

[CreviceTool]

Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable. Everyone’s on drugs here and stealing,” an ex-felon named Shaku explains as he rips open a blue Popsicle wrapper with his teeth. Shaku is standing in an encampment of tents, trash, and bicycles, across from San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church. Another encampment-dweller lights a green crack pipe and passes it around. A few paces down the street, a gaunt man swipes a credit card through a series of parking meters to see if it has been reported stolen yet.

[CreviceTool]

Heather Mac Donald offers long-form documentation of the failure of liberalism: "For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned." "Its main homelessness agency—currently dubbed the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and dedicated to an allegedly novel mission: “helping homeless residents permanently exit the streets”—commands a $285 million budget. Add health services and sanitation, and you get a $380 million annual tab for homelessness, according to the city’s budget analyst. That figure is wildly under the mark, leaving out criminal-justice costs, welfare payments, and repairing infrastructure deterioration, among other expenditures. But even assuming the conservative $380 million, that works out to $47,500 a year per homeless person."

[huckfillary]

Whatever happened to vagrancy laws?

[kaehurowing]

Whatever happened to vagrancy laws?

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They are actually not enforceable because of a decision by the Ninth Circus.

[kaehurowing]

Step 1 to dealing with this problem:

Publicly execute drug dealers.

[FreedomPoster]

Heather Mac Donald is great, highly recommend anything she writes. I’ll read this now.

The article by her in the OP of this thread, as well as the series in my post, are worthwhile:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3770841/posts?page=7#7

[OddLane]

Full House: San Francisco

[Joshua]

Publicly execute drug dealers.
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That would expose a lot more government involvement than they are readyto have come out. The drug war is a big money maker for the Feds

[kaehurowing]

You are right there. The illicit drug industry, especially Big Marijuana, makes substantial contributions to politicians in this country to weaken enforcement of the drug laws. I wouldn’t mind shooting a few of the politicians also, if it is determined they have been taking payoffs from the drug dealers.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The drug war is a big money maker for the Feds

AND the local governments all over the country. Lots of money to be made when you have the power to destroy the 4th amendment.

To paraphrase John Roberts, it's not government theft, it's a tax, so the 4th amendment doesn't apply.

[GOPJ]

San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned.

Liberal feed off the chaos caused by the 'homeless'... Dems have ZERO intention of solving this problem - it works for them.

[Taxman]

Thank you for the links to Ms. MacDonald’s essays!

I, too, very much appreciate her most excellent research and articles.

[Taxman]

Has Atlas Shrugged in San FRancisco?

Seattle?

LA?

ALL of Kali-Fornia?

Chicago?

Baltimore?

St. Louis?

Detroit?

Memphis?

There are many others!

Note to the American people: When you vote for a Democrat, you are voting AGAINST America!

[ronnie raygun]

Those who have worked so hard to make it so are now relocating bringing their mental illness with them. The cancer spreads

[Berlin_Freeper]

California leads the nation, by far, in both the number of homeless people, and the percentage increase in the homeless population - two terrible stats. Crazy Nancy should focus on that in her very down district, and helping her incompetent governor with the big homeless problem!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2019

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Glide Memorial Church has been the center of religious Marxism in San. Fran. since the 70s at minimum. Right now I cannot access my copy of the 1970 Sen. Factfinding Subcom Report on Un-American Activities, Calif. State Legislature, but I’m sure it has Glide Memorial Church in it (the 67 edition has the Glide Foundation mentioned in it).

The radical red minister, as I recall, was Rev. Lawson, one of the Communist Party USA’s top clergy supporters in California, if not the country. If you look into the history of that church, you will not find Christ there, only Marx.

They are one of the problems of why SF is now officially a human waste pit and politically red shithole.

You get what you vote for, and boy did SF get it up the wazoo in the last couple of years. Enjoy your giant tubes of Preparation H. I’m buying stock in its parent company.

As a wise philosopher once said about SF, “If leftist assholes could fly, this city would be an airport”.

[elbook]

Hostage ??

They should embrace the filth and smells and diseases their agenda brings.

I’m sure the good liberals of that city could put an end to the ‘homelessness’ by taking all of them into THEIR homes and showing tolerance to the strange behaviors and anti-social ways of those they WILL learn to love.

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