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Sacramento has "San Francisco" problems in abundance downtown. These are the problematic areas: downtowns. Sacramento is a galaxy of areas much more than its ti
by sacnoradhq 3y ago
Sacramento has "San Francisco" problems in abundance downtown. These are the problematic areas: downtowns. Sacramento is a galaxy of areas much more than its tiny downtown: there are a lot of good areas that are still good. The thing though is Sacramento, like SF, has a problem where naked unhoused people urinate in the middle of the lawn of the main library at the height of rush hour traffic.
The fundamental problems or urban center area that changed are twofold:
1. The quiet quitting (nonenforcement) and understaffing of police departments. Austin TX has a deficit of 200 police officers with no path or budget to remedy this issue and ignore virtually all calls unless they are both ongoing and violent. The result is theft and open season on stores. Stores now have armed security contractors. The ones who can't afford this level of security go out of business. Therefore, high-profit corporate convenience stores are the only ones who stay in business.
2. Elected DA's refuse to prosecute people alleged to have committed theft, property crime, and violent crime because they happen to be poor or brown. This leads to an eye for arrest and indictment of white males in urban centers to balance the stats to fit a narrative.
It should be underscored that the problematic areas are small (except SF and LA) and are addressable without violating anyone's rights. DAs willing to prosecute crime and funding PDs would bring the morale back to LEOs.
Addressing beyond 1. and 2. would require a nationwide federal housing program to voluntarily relocate people to cheaper areas with comprehensive social services that aren't typical of America. Not easy, cheap, or simple but this and 1. and 2. seem holistically comprehensive.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The thing though is Sacramento, like SF, has a problem where naked unhoused people urinate in the middle of the lawn of the main library at the height of rush hour traffic. No, it doesn’t. For one thing, the main library in Sacramento does not have a lawn to urinate in the middle (or any other part) of. So if someone has seen that happening on the lawn of a main library in some city’s downtown, the one thing I can say for certain is that the city isn’t Sacramento. I’m guessing, though, that you were just assuming that since, Sacramento does, in fact, have a homeless problem, and a downtown, and a main library in the downtown, you could just assume that some share of the homeless problem is naked and urinates in any given location downtown, and coming up with a colorful description you felt safe with that was not based on any actual observation of, even, the actual library in question, much less anyone urinating there.
- TimBurman 3y agoGoogle maps shows that directly across the street from the library is a Federal building with a lawn and five tents of campers or perhaps homeless people, installed on the sidewalk. I take sacnoradhq's word for it, though you are correct in saying the lawn appears to belong to the Federal building and not the library. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5819397,-121.4950718,3a,75y,23.29h,86.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so97FeM5SCqMsV2WDUNCJOg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5819397,-121.4950718,3a,75y,...
- DropInIn 3y agoSo I suppose the real truth we've discovered in this thread is that sacnoradhq has never visited the city's public library ever....
- onetokeoverthe 3y ago[dead]