and yet it beat every other large county
San Francisco Has Fallen
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You speak of free country, I don't. There's no such thing as a free country when you can't walk the streets for fear of violence from demented vagrants, from petty crimes committed by vagrants, from filth left on sidewalks from same vagrants... Their freedom ended when they became unable or unwilling to take care of themselves. A free country means taking responsibility for oneself and taking care of those who can't.
Pretending these people only need is a place to live and all will go back to normal is ridiculous. They're streamers, no parachute, straight down to death. Humanity is taking care of them, against their distorted will if necessary. What we're doing here is abdicating our responsibilities in the name of a delusional sense of absolute freedom.
freedom is scary that way.
We lose how many a yr to guns to exercise the 2nd?
We lose how many to alt-righters brainwashed by hate speech protected by the 1st?
We lose how many to vagrants for the freedom to let them make their own choices?
Like I'm honestly curious, how many people are vagabonds outright murdering that we need to Uighur them? Is it really that much higher than the other 2 above?
I fundamentally agree that hiding behind absolute freedom to justify walking around with a weapon or parading the streets with Nazi flags are wrong for the same reasons I outlined that it's wrong for vagrants to live on the streets. If minorities are given the freedom to affect the majority's freedom to exist without fear, then it's no freedom at all.
The slight difference is that one and the other are protected by the Constitution, not the street vagrants.
lolwut? You're basically proposing we do away with the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th for these people.
Constitution provides for the right to bare arms and for the right to free speech. Both should be modified in this day and age.
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Dave Chappelle reportedly blasts San Francisco at surprise show: 'What the f--- happened to this place?'
The comedian slammed the city's rampant homeless crisis and added that the entire city had become like the Tenderloin district now
Dave Chappelle slammed San Francisco during a surprise show at the SF Masonic Auditorium on Thursday night.
The 49-year-old comedian took aim at the homelessness crisis in the Golden City, which he referred to during the set as his "second home," according to a report by SFGate.
"What the f--- happened to this place?" Chappelle asked.
Chappelle went on to recount an experience that he had a few nights earlier during his trip to San Francisco.
The Netflix star told the crowd that he was dining out at an Indian restaurant in the city's Tenderloin district and recalled that a homeless person defecated in front of the establishment just as Chappelle was walking in.
The Washington, D.C., native said that San Francisco had devolved into a "half ‘Glee,’ half zombie movie" and added that the entire city had become the Tenderloin now. The Tenderloin district of San Francisco is notorious for its crime, homelessness and drug problems.
"Y’all [expletive] need a Batman!" the comic declared.
Chapelle's criticism comes as the city is struggling to deal with a steep increase of homelessness and crime in recent years. It is estimated that 38,000 people are living on the streets in San Francisco on any given night, which represents a 35% increase since 2019.
Crime and homelessness concerns in San Francisco have been exacerbated by a police staffing shortage, when the department saw a 12% decrease in its number of full-duty sworn officers from 2019 to 2022.
Additionally, Chappelle's experience with public defecation is not unique. In 2018, Sean Miller, a newcomer to the city developed a free app named "the Snapcrap" app to make it easier for people to report human feces and used needles on San Francisco's streets.
"See something gross? Just snap a photo and press submit," the app's description reads.
The photos are passed to the city's Public Works department, which has its own 311 app to report feces and trash, as well as potholes and graffiti.
Though San Francisco has become known as the epicenter of the homelessness crisis, the problem is statewide. A recent study found that a third of the U.S.'s entire homeless population and half of all unsheltered homeless people live in California.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's "Point in Time" survey, conducted in January 2022 and released at year's end, indicated that at least 30% of all of America's homeless population live in the Golden State, with homeless tents and encampments prevalent in some urban centers.
The survey showed that around 115,500 "unsheltered" people – half of the total roughly 233,800 "unsheltered" population – reside in California.
Primarily, California’s homeless population increased by roughly 6% since 2020 compared to just 0.4% in the rest of the country. The biggest change occurred in the "homeless but sheltered" population, which spiked 17% in that period, while the "unsheltered" population rose by around 2%.
"The rest of the country’s unsheltered population grew faster than California’s (4%), while its sheltered population actually shrank (-2%)," the PPIC wrote in an analysis of the report. The state is home to the country's most Continuums of Care, which organize and administer services to the homeless population, with 44 centers compared to runner-up Florida, which has only 27.
According to a recent study, only a small percentage of San Francisco residents feel safe while taking public transit due to homelessness and crime.
The poll published this week, conducted by the Bay Area Council, interviewed 1,000 San Francisco travelers on the city’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) from March 30 - April 9 via email-and text-to-web survey and found that 17% of people feel safe and 45% of people who do not ride BART said it’s because they do not feel safe.
Additionally, the primary reason respondents gave for not riding BART more often was not remote work but rather 22% of people said that lack of security, fear and safety concerns were the reason for not riding more.
The comedian slammed the city's rampant homeless crisis and added that the entire city had become like the Tenderloin district now
Dave Chappelle slammed San Francisco during a surprise show at the SF Masonic Auditorium on Thursday night.
The 49-year-old comedian took aim at the homelessness crisis in the Golden City, which he referred to during the set as his "second home," according to a report by SFGate.
"What the f--- happened to this place?" Chappelle asked.
Chappelle went on to recount an experience that he had a few nights earlier during his trip to San Francisco.
The Netflix star told the crowd that he was dining out at an Indian restaurant in the city's Tenderloin district and recalled that a homeless person defecated in front of the establishment just as Chappelle was walking in.
The Washington, D.C., native said that San Francisco had devolved into a "half ‘Glee,’ half zombie movie" and added that the entire city had become the Tenderloin now. The Tenderloin district of San Francisco is notorious for its crime, homelessness and drug problems.
"Y’all [expletive] need a Batman!" the comic declared.
Chapelle's criticism comes as the city is struggling to deal with a steep increase of homelessness and crime in recent years. It is estimated that 38,000 people are living on the streets in San Francisco on any given night, which represents a 35% increase since 2019.
Crime and homelessness concerns in San Francisco have been exacerbated by a police staffing shortage, when the department saw a 12% decrease in its number of full-duty sworn officers from 2019 to 2022.
Additionally, Chappelle's experience with public defecation is not unique. In 2018, Sean Miller, a newcomer to the city developed a free app named "the Snapcrap" app to make it easier for people to report human feces and used needles on San Francisco's streets.
"See something gross? Just snap a photo and press submit," the app's description reads.
The photos are passed to the city's Public Works department, which has its own 311 app to report feces and trash, as well as potholes and graffiti.
Though San Francisco has become known as the epicenter of the homelessness crisis, the problem is statewide. A recent study found that a third of the U.S.'s entire homeless population and half of all unsheltered homeless people live in California.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's "Point in Time" survey, conducted in January 2022 and released at year's end, indicated that at least 30% of all of America's homeless population live in the Golden State, with homeless tents and encampments prevalent in some urban centers.
The survey showed that around 115,500 "unsheltered" people – half of the total roughly 233,800 "unsheltered" population – reside in California.
Primarily, California’s homeless population increased by roughly 6% since 2020 compared to just 0.4% in the rest of the country. The biggest change occurred in the "homeless but sheltered" population, which spiked 17% in that period, while the "unsheltered" population rose by around 2%.
"The rest of the country’s unsheltered population grew faster than California’s (4%), while its sheltered population actually shrank (-2%)," the PPIC wrote in an analysis of the report. The state is home to the country's most Continuums of Care, which organize and administer services to the homeless population, with 44 centers compared to runner-up Florida, which has only 27.
According to a recent study, only a small percentage of San Francisco residents feel safe while taking public transit due to homelessness and crime.
The poll published this week, conducted by the Bay Area Council, interviewed 1,000 San Francisco travelers on the city’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) from March 30 - April 9 via email-and text-to-web survey and found that 17% of people feel safe and 45% of people who do not ride BART said it’s because they do not feel safe.
Additionally, the primary reason respondents gave for not riding BART more often was not remote work but rather 22% of people said that lack of security, fear and safety concerns were the reason for not riding more.