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> She said she recognized that San Francisco was a compassionate city, but “we’re not a city where anything goes.” I think that is reasonable. From these comme
by syspec 5y ago
> She said she recognized that San Francisco was a compassionate city, but “we’re not a city where anything goes.”
I think that is reasonable. From these comments, I get a very "dammed if you do, damned if you don't" sentiment. Should she not try to improve things, just because they tried something and it went too far in the other direction?
- SavantIdiot 5y ago[flagged]
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- diogenescynic 5y agoShe won’t stick with it. She just saw a poll and is switching her tune. She was downplaying the same stories previously. She’s self-motivated to save her own position. Every time there was a violent crime in BART that made the news, they’d have cops for 2-3 days in the stations then go back to ignoring things once the spotlight was off. I suspect the same will happen here. They cleaned the city up for the Super Bowl so clearly it can be done.
- kelnos 5y agoThey didn't "clean up the city" for the Super Bowl. They just took all of the bad stuff going on near where the SB festivities were, and (temporarily, as it turned out) moved it elsewhere.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoHNers are falling over themselves to make sardonic comments accusing politicians of only changing their minds because there's an election coming up. Couldn't possibly be that: * homelessness is a really complex problem, with lots of varied causes, not to mention a lot of barriers to anyone who is homeless reintegrating into society (for example, thanks to paranoia over terrorism, it can now be very difficult for someone who is or was homeless to get ID, get a bank account, etc. Homeless people don't have their birth certificates handy, don't typically have an address they get mail at, they don't receive bills, etc.) * policies and programs take time to get going; there are lessons learned in planning, implementation, etc. * change does not happen overnight; think of a city program to address homelessness like a container you're using to bail out a canoe that's full of water. * it takes time to collect data, and more time to figure out what the data means * it takes time to figure out what to do about that data And so on, etc.
- mbrodersen 5y agoI have lived in a number of very large cities around the world. And they were all clean, safe, and well-maintained. SF is a basket case of mismanagement.