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> There is no crime wave. People who live in this city disagree with you. See the DA recall. > There is a lot of drug use and mental illness visible on the st
by newfriend 4y ago
> There is no crime wave.
People who live in this city disagree with you. See the DA recall.
> There is a lot of drug use and mental illness visible on the streets in two small neighborhoods in the entire city. The Tenderloin and Soma which wrap the now, post covid, more vacant downtown.
And Mission, and Haight, and countless other areas. Sure some of these are not absolute disaster areas like some of the others, but I think you've become far too accustomed to the utter disgustingness of much of the city.
> The rest of the city is as clean and safe as ever.
That's not saying much. Don't worry, Pac Heights and Mission Bay are nice and clean!
> Here’s the real thing to consider. I’m sure you, like most people that voted to remove the DA and support this insane surveillance initiative, do not live in the affected neighborhoods. You won’t be now subjected to 24 hour police surveillance just for the crime of living in the wrong zip code like myself and my neighbors will.
I live close enough to the Tenderloin to be affected by it daily, and yes I'm very happy the insane DA was recalled.
> We tried broken windows policing for 30 years. And all it did was balloon the criminal records of young males who were unlucky enough to live in the zip codes and neighborhoods that received the majority of police attention in cities throughout the country.
Oh please. We've been coddling criminals here for decades. There is massive amounts of crime here because criminals know that they can act with impunity.
> The reality is that once downtown recovers from the office vacancies caused by the covid remote work shift, things will return to normal. With or without putting me under 24 hour surveillance.
People have been complaining about how dirty the city is, and the crazy drug-abusing homeless for a long time at this point. It would be nice if we could improve on that instead of going back to that.