First up, from the San Francisco Chronicle:
Residents and city leaders are searching for answers: should they tolerate burglaries as a part of city living, and focus on barricading homes?
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) November 5, 2021
Should repeat offenders get rehabilitation services, or be incarcerated so they can’t commit more crimes? https://t.co/F0kaALqjU1 pic.twitter.com/QMqOjXJFMl
And from CBS/BayArea, November 2:
Replacement Glass Shortage Adding To Woes Of San Francisco Car Break-Ins Victims
It's getting so people don't even want to go further south than Sausalito or the Marin Headlands, much less cross the Golden Gate Bridge into the city.
As noted in the introduction to "San Francisco’s Future Should Begin with a Land Value Tax"
Most of the problems of the City and County of San Francisco, from human feces on the sidewalks to crime to world-beating housing costs (#2 after Hong Kong according to DB) stem from the fact the same political machine has been in control for 60 years.60 years. They've got it just the way they want it. And racist as hell:
I mention this not because I care much about the politics but because, as with corporate restructurings or rescues, you don't want the people who got you into the mess to be the ones trying to get you out.
Meaning until the politicians change nothing will change.
Which brings us to a subject near and dear.*.....
Depending on the source, San Francisco's population is between 6.0 and 6.6% black vs. 14.2% for the country as a whole. S.F. city and county use zoning laws to keep black folks out.
The same goes for Seattle and Portland. Someone should do a story on it....
And crap on the sidewalks. With a "Poop Patrol" to clean said human fecal matter that pays a pretty penny for people to do the job:
Granted that is both salary and benefits but it's still adding up.
They made this.
And as seen in "The Hittites Lived in Interesting Times":
....Over time, Aramaic inscriptions came to be used for all sorts of purposes, from royal inscriptions to religious and funerary texts. Aramaic words on some funerary stele, for example, claim that no silver or copper was placed in the grave – an attempt to deter grave robbers. Such an inscription can be seen in ‘Forgotten Kingdoms’ on a stele from Neirab in Syria, dated to the 7th century BC.... ....MUCH MORE
Huh, shades of San Francisco, 21st century AD:
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