San Francisco believes they are the front runners of what CA will become. And CA believes they are the front runners of what the US will become.

^^^^

That is an extremely scary thought.

Corridor was clear of derelicts, needles, and poop. Today was check day though so most of them were probably living it up elsewhere.

Par for the course here in the Bay Area. The elected officials are more concerned with "making a statement" than helping those that live here.

CA needs to raise their minimum wage to the point that these junkies & the homeless can afford new homes.

Sheesh! I'm surprised the progressives in CA haven't thought of that already.

Tucker tonight. Same story with San Francisco and to a broader extent the rest of the state and other large cities.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/cUS_Ls5CS5s

from a sage old lady I knew:

"Feed the homeless druggies to the hungry & fill the potholes with their bones"....

surprisingly harsh for a Sweet Old Lady.....

Well, I'll be...several years ago the bathrooms at BART were no-go areas because there was always someone shooting up in there or hookers were picking up some fast money in there. Your biggest worry was getting jacked up by some young thugs if you had to be on an outside platform when it was dark out. Simply amazing.

I take it all the silicon millionaires don't use the streets or public transportation?

I’ve been out here for 3 weeks, I watched someone slam heroin outside the hardware store last week.

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I’ve been out here for 3 weeks, I watched someone slam heroin outside the hardware store last week.

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Fire hoses applied to the situation seems to be the answer. Power wash everything, including the human trash.

And all the local voters will continue to vote democrat. It's simply amazing.

There's no cure for stupid.

Man you just can't make this shit up. Yet it's happening in front of our eyes. San Francisco is worried about the stigma of being labeled a felon. That's the fucking point moron. I'm more concerned about the lack of shame people have for being felons than the stigma of it.



San Francisco board rebrands 'convicted felon' as 'justice-involved person,' sanitizes other crime lingo


Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.”

The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country and staggering inequality exemplified by pervasive homelessness alongside Silicon Valley wealth.

The local officials say the new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, from now on a convicted felon or an offender released from custody will be known as a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or just a “returning resident.”

A juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.”

And drug addicts or substance abusers, meanwhile, will become “a person with a history of substance use.”

“We don’t want people to be forever labeled for the worst things that they have done,” Supervisor Matt Haney told the newspaper. “We want them ultimately to become contributing citizens, and referring to them as felons is like a scarlet letter that they can never get away from.”

The sanitized language, though unlikely to do much to address the crime problem, may result in some convoluted descriptions of crimes in the future.

The newspaper noted an individual whose car has been broken into could well be known to police as “a person who has come in contact with a returning resident who was involved with the justice system and who is currently under supervision with a history of substance use.”

The board’s approved new language is non-binding, with the district attorney endorsing the measure. Mayor London Breed hasn’t yet endorsed the new language.

I can't imagine that someone getting clean/off dope could stay off dope with it being used right in front of them every day.

Staying away from ppl that use is one of the first rules of recovery.

Cities like that are promoting drug use through their lack of criminalizing drug use.

Narcan is taking away the detriment of probable death so more use is accepted by the druggie.

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Narcan is taking away the detriment of probable death so more use is accepted by the druggie

I have heard stories directly from EMS personnel that druggies recovering successfully from OD’s say they are less concerned about taking more chances with dope possibly being much stronger/adulterated with fentanyl because they know paramedics have narcan in the ambulance.

I still travel occasionally to SF for business and I do not venture out of my hotel anymore. I do my business in the hotel, I eat my meals and drink my drinks in the hotel, and then I leave. I no longer hop into a cab or walk to a restaurant or other points of interest. What is telling is that my clients understand and don't really blame me.

Speaking of Tucker Carlson- in the last year, I was staying at the same SF hotel he was speaking at, didn't get to see it I was too busy. The guy was born in SF and grew up in SoCal.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
The local officials say the new language will help change people’s views about those who commit crimes.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, from now on a convicted felon or an offender released from custody will be known as a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or just a “returning resident.”

A juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.”

And drug addicts or substance abusers, meanwhile, will become “a person with a history of substance use.”

I shouldn't be surprised, the BoS has been a clown-show as long as I've been alive.

Mincing words and redefining what is obvious, doesn't change anything. You commit a crime, you're a criminal; a murderer isn't the same as a shop-lifter however, you're a law-breaker ergo, a criminal.

And, a few years later, the polite term becomes a pejorative and has to be replaced by a new polite term. There are times I wonder how many otherwise unemployable people with English majors develop careers in local government.

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
CA needs to raise their minimum wage to the point that these junkies & the homeless can afford new homes.

Sheesh! I'm surprised the progressives in CA haven't thought of that already.

You'd have to pay them $50/hr!

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