People say lack of housing forces local residents into the streets, but James says he came from Texas to San Francisco for the drugs, the non-enforcement of anti-camping laws, and the $820/month in welfare & food stamps. James says he sold fentanyl, 2 weeks ago, to a 15-year-old.
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It's reasonable to ask whether I'm seeking out outliers, but I met James 5 minutes after parking my car and he was the first person I interviewed, and Ben, below, was the 4th person we interviewed after ~20 minutes on the street doing interviews
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People say high rent causes homelessness but Ben, who has been homeless in San Francisco for 7 years, says the “vast majority” are homeless due to addiction. Just 6-7% are from SF. Ben says he "boosts" (shoplifts) and breaks into cars to pay for his $60/day heroin habit.
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People are surprised by these interviews because much of what we've read is propaganda put forward by activists with an agenda & reporters who are also ideological but also lazy & too scared to ask direct questions of street people.
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Almost everything people believe about "homelessness" is wrong. The word "homeless" is a propaganda word designed to mislead you into thinking the people on the street are there because they are poor rather than because they are suffering from untreated mental illness & addiction
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I interviewed hundreds of "homeless" people for San Fransicko using the same methods I used during 33 years of interviewing people in war zones. I'm friendly, respectful, and direct
Watch James open up about rape, fentanyl death, and the hot sellers' market for used Narcan vials
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My reporting has embarrassed, and made defensive, progressive activists, academics, & journalists who have resorted to a Big Lie, claiming, on the one hand, that I never talk to homeless people and, on the other, that I break the law to talk to homeless people.
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San Francisco city government is currently overseeing an unethical & illegal medical experiment on society's most vulnerable people, but my critics are spreading the lie that *I* am the real criminal. Why? For daring to report on the sinister experiment.
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The people who are most loudly demanding censorship are fake journalists who feel threatened by real journalists. We are an embarrassment to them. We do things like report on illegal government corruption, use data to debunk their narrative, and interview the wrong people.
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Things are changing rapidly. People can see they've been lied to. Most commenters are strongly in favor of my reporting. And, with every attack activists, academics, & journalists make on honest reporting, we only grow stronger.
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This guy who isn't a service provider is practicing harm reduction on the teenagers he sold fentanyl to.
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It's not clear in my tweet, but I think it's an indictment of harm reduction that this guy justifies his sale of fentanyl to teens by teaching them how to use it "safely" as if he works for the Harm Reduction Coalition. It's maddening.
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Of course it's your mission to pick out the worst examples of human behavior to defend your bigotry and stereotypes . Then you edited excessively to demonize the guy we don't know what this guy is saying in context.
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You've got low expectations of your fellow man Pitts.
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