You know how war hawks and neo-cons's answer to foreign politics they don't like is throw war at it? Well, in SF, the answer to social ills is more compassion

You know how war hawks and neo-cons's answer to foreign politics they don't like is throw war at it? Well, in SF, the answer to social ills is more compassion -always. Oh, people are sitting/squatting and begging in front of doors, let's not enforce loitering ordinances (poor old Ross had to pass a new law specifically to address this scourge in the Haight. Oh, people are shitting on the street? Oh, we must be doing something wrong, we'll not enforce any sanitary or defecating in public laws, that will surely alleviate the situation (look, Tokyo has very few public toilets yet their homeless don't shit on the streets). Also, SF projects and wants to solve the issues that plague the rest of the country (or sometimes the world). Oh, the police in Podunk Alabama beat people up 100% of the time? Gosh, we better make sure the cops will never have that chance to make that a problem in SF. City government in Podunk Oregon has discriminated against amputees? Well, gosh darn it we'll make sure we never do that in SF and to prove it we will only hire amputees going forward!