Who are the candidates for public office in #SF who are taking a hard stance against open drug dealing, petty theft and sidewalk encampments (i.e. crime)?
There’s a lot of fluffyspeak about “doing better” but it’s hard to tell who is serious eliminating this stuff in SF ASAP.
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Find housing for the homeless and your sidewalk encampment "crime" problem will disappear.
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There isn’t enough housing in SF for the world’s homeless population. There’s plenty of housing elsewhere in the world.
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This sounds like going back to broken windows theory and over-criminalizing all the things.
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Probably not too popular to tear down encampments rn with covid... it'll only be a problem once someone gets seriously injured or worse sad to say
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Hasn't the drug war cost enough already? Do you need yet another example of how prohibition doesn't work?
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I think a city can be the Vegas of drugs but you need to go about it intentionally, with a plan.
SF decided privatize all the gains associated with this policy and socialize all the losses. The gains are going to the pockets of violent street organizations, not the school fund.
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The issue needs different framing.
The conversation needs to become:
Drug treatment, mental health care, and job training.
And perhaps the locations for such services should be someplace else in California.
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