Fellow San Franciscan. There is a bit of a tidal shift. Even many libs are tired of the excusing of property crime. In March we voted for means testing for welfare. It’s not much but it is something. The new DA (we recalled the old and and three lousy school board members, significantly) seems to actually be prosecuting some crime at least.
But still office vacancy is at least 50% (people in the know tell me higher), retail is way down and so sadly union square is now done with, and junkies and nuts continue destroying the streets where they are allowed mostly tenderloin and south of market and bay view.
Would a free rock concert in the park help?
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/jimi-hendrix-golden-gate-park-17279630.php
Famous Hunter S. Thompson passage (written by an armed man who lived in ‘a heavily fortified compound’) on almost being able to see the peaceful time that had passed forever....
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas