It is sad. A minority of people in SF had been saying for years that the situation was getting out of hand -but the other side would scoff and accuse critics o

It is sad. A minority of people in SF had been saying for years that the situation was getting out of hand -but the other side would scoff and accuse critics of being of all things Republicans, not progressive, anti-whatever they could come up with. Willie Brown may have been corrupt, but SF would never have spiraled like it did under his leadership. Towards the end of Newsom's tenure we saw cracks --there was always the homeless who no matter what they did, it was never their fault, the drug addicted kids in the Haight too. I remember having cops investigate if I was stopped on the wrong side of the street (parked facing the wrong way), or I was stopped in an area too long. It was annoying, sure. But it kept crime down. It took many years to get to the nadir, and it will take years to recover as well.