Posted on 06/17/2022 5:17:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The epicenter of the political earthquakes rattling San Francisco’s progressive establishment is a 30-square-block neighborhood in the center of downtown known as the Tenderloin. Adjacent to some of the city’s most famous attractions, including the high-end shopping district Union Square, the old money redoubt of Nob Hill, historic Chinatown, and the city’s gold-capped City Hall, it is home to a giant, open-air drug bazaar. Tents fill the sidewalks. Addicts sit on curbs and lean against walls, nodding off to their fentanyl and heroin fixes, or wander around in meth-induced psychotic states. Drug dealers stake out their turf and sell in broad daylight, while the immigrant families in the five-story, pre-war apartment buildings shepherd their kids to school, trying to maintain as normal an existence as they can.
“If you happen to be walking through the Tenderloin and you feel unsafe, imagine what it feels like to live there,” said Joel Engardio, head of Stop Crime SF, a civilian public safety group. “The Tenderloin has one of the largest percentages of children in the city. It’s untenable, inexcusable to ask them to confront this hellscape.”
“The Tenderloin is out of control,” said Tom Ostly, a former San Francisco prosecutor who used to work there and lives nearby. “It has never been worse than it is now.”
Nancy Tung, a prosecutor who once handled drug enforcement in San Francisco, called it “ground zero for human misery.” Kathy Looper, who has run a low-income, single resident occupancy hotel in the Tenderloin for more than 45 years, said, “It feels like we’re in Gotham,” adding that she once considered putting a spotlight on her hotel roof and projecting a Batman signal into the sky.
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Vagrancy laws were in place and were enforced.
It was good, back when we were civilized, wasn’t it?
It sure was. Of course things weren’t perfect back then but far superior to today.
It’s also ground zero for the triumph of progressive policies. If you want to see a shitlib explode in paroxisms of spittle-flecked rage and hate, just tell them that they will get more of whatever they subsidize.
Remove the drug dealers and the ILLEGAL immigrants and see if things improve considerably. But then again, common sense never occurs to these people.
I grew up in a small northern town. A nice town. Not any homeless people. One day the residents noticed a homeless guy hanging out at the library or sleeping in various places. The cops bought him a bus ticket to Florida and put him on the bus. The paper had a story about it...about how great it was that the police pooled their money and sent this guy to a warmer place. A feel good story if I ever heard one.
The Tenderloin. You will never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Homeless people would show up downtown here and the foreign students would harass them with questions until they left.
“Why don’t you get a job?”
For the most part the drug dealers ARE the illegals. They are mostly Hondurans who car pool in from the east bay. The Honduran cartels have the major concession for drug traffic in the Tenderloin.
Democratland.
We are Panama.
These "progressive" cities must be in competition free fall.
When will libs learn that you usually don't help people by "helping" people? SF's 47 years of defiantly lax social policies since Ronald Reagan left the governor's office have resulted in worse conditions than what they originally railed against.There are at least two or three levels of fences above the street-level fences. At the top are the wholesale fences. They buy from the mid-tier fences who buy from the street-level fences who buy directly from the boosters, who use their paltry profits to buy drugs from the dealers.San Francisco’s addiction crisis provides the larceny industry with a permanent low-wage workforce. Drug addicts there and in other cities are, in effect, the exploited sweatshop workers of an international organized retail theft network that operates on an industrial scale.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
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