So long as SF continues to criminalize homelessness instead of actual crime, the city will never get out of this. The problem San Francisco faces is that the v

So long as SF continues to criminalize homelessness instead of actual crime, the city will never get out of this. The problem San Francisco faces is that the various parties cannot agree what crime is. In particular, the folks in charge (Mayor, SFPD, and DA) are spending their time persecuting and criminalizing homelessness and drug addiction. We might generously say this is because it is visible, and also because of the fact that when middle class folks see visible poverty they think crime is high. But what we see here is an organized group breaking in and leisurely stealing valuable stuff. It has been studied and it is well known that organized crime gangs are doing the bulk of theft in SF, with the last DA (who was recalled for being "too soft on crime") managing to break up an organized gang of laptop thieves who got them from breaking in to cars. Though, naturally, the good people of SF had been blaming car thefts on the homeless. And the new DA won't even file charges against a broad-daylight murder, because the victim was homeless. Absolutely incredible the hoops they'll jump through to avoid prosecuting and stopping real crime, when there are homeless people they can fuck with instead.