It's the price of living in a society. When we do not adequately help people, we end up with ballooning homelessness as it exists in SF and elsewhere, poverty,

It's the price of living in a society. When we do not adequately help people, we end up with ballooning homelessness as it exists in SF and elsewhere, poverty, and crime that make your and my lives less safe. Where you draw the line between helping people in need and paying taxes might be different than mine, but helping people - despite their crimes - is a fundamental requirement of living in a stable society. Prisoners have access to free drug rehabilitation. How is it that we don't offer that before we arrest people and throw them in prison?