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that is excellent. There's a 20 block area that is the reddest zone in the city and my guess is that's the Tenderloin. I wonder what impact an intense cleanin
by stretchwithme 16y ago
that is excellent. There's a 20 block area that is the reddest zone in the city and my guess is that's the Tenderloin.
I wonder what impact an intense cleaning would have on the crime rate there. And enforcement of simple things like public urination laws. And maybe some decent bathrooms.
I recall the kind of things New York did to restore a sense of order. Malcolm Gladwell talked about them in the Tipping Point. Surely similar measures would improve the crime situation in SF.
- hugh3 16y agoMost definitely, but you'll never get a Rudy Giuliani figure elected as mayor of San Francisco, at least not in the foreseeable future. My prediction: sometime in the next 30 years the tech industry will have drifted elsewhere, and San Franscisco will be the new Detroit. Right now it's a mixture of the sublime and the awful, but the sublime can always pack up and move to Portland/Austin/Seattle.
- stretchwithme 16y agoMost of what is sublime about San Francisco can't move. But you're right. People in San Francisco don't seem to value public order enough to take the actions required to establish it.