From CBS 5:
“All of the law enforcement in the world is not going to create a peaceful environment,” said Mayor Newsom. “I don’t want to get into the details of these investigations, but you got folks from all over the Bay Area who happen to be in San Francisco doing things that they shouldn’t be doing.”
Link.
there’s no way Gavin’s going to say anything meaningful (or truthful) about this. it’s a big loser issue, with no good way out, and he’s not really interested in being mayor anymore.
besides, no one in city government gives a fuck about the Mission. it’s viewed as a slum where poor brown people live, and where there are a lot of cool hipster bars. no one in either of those groups votes, donates or can further in any way his political career (or those of any other blood sucking parasite politicos)…
so no one does anything.
there’s a District 9 election coming though. maybe some new blood in that seat WILL do something. i mean, it’s worth a shot, no?
Get smart and VOTE!
and this guy is viewed as the future of the Democratic party because…? I guess it’s random that we have such a high unsolved crime rate–it couldn’t possibly be due to incompetence.
And why wouldn’t Hayward and Oakland thugs come to San Francisco and push around the local pussies? It is city policy to have an authenticity-maximizing, “Stuff White People Like” level of picturesque squalor. The complaints of the politicians (and “progressives”) who go out of their way to ensure this state of affairs are what the word “chutzpah” was intended to describe before it got adopted by baptists. What’s the worst that could happen to these guys anyway? This is a place where even dogs don’t respect their owners — “I feel like when you come to San Francisco and shoot up and leave syringes in planters, and have sex with $6 crackwhores in our beloved SROs, and pull guns on people, that you are not respecting me.” No shit, San Francisco is a senile heiress who writes the gardener thousand dollar checks twice a month, and also to his girlfriend. The likeliest response to street shitting is that Daly or some other self-styled “San Franciscan” will require cops to carry toilet paper (and in committee they will stipulate that the toilet paper should be hypoallergenic) for the needy bums. I was once in a New Mexico truck stop and gave some scraps to a local hobo for his dog, and when he asked where I was from I said San Francisco, and he said, Man! you guys have some fucking bums out there! This is what we have come to — our streets offend the sensibility of drifters. And all we have to do is stop sponsoring the fucking offensiveness, decline to pay for the SRO’s and fleabag deathtraps, maybe even try to cite the most appalling nuisances and let them evolve into student housing, or God Forfend, web-programmer housing (as opposed to Richmond drug dealer and pimp housing). That is what would happen naturally if the city stopped intervening on behalf of people who couldn’t give a fuck about it.
Dear Concerned:
Amen sister. Or bother.
well spouted.
(how about artist housing, btw?)
Concerned has it right. Let’s face it. Like him or not, Newsom has been a powerless mayor since he got into office. Instead of city supervisors who are looking out for the community, we have political activists like Daly and Ammiano. They care more about keeping Home Depot out of the city and turning the zoo into god-knows-what than about the critical problems that are facing real people who have to suffer through their great ideological experiment. The police can’t solve murders because their hands are tied by these political ideologues who won’t even back them up. Cop killers in any other city across America get the death penalty but not here in Kamila Harris’ world. So it’s open season on cops. Ask any lowlife criminal across the Bay Area and they will tell you that San Francisco is the place to go to buy drugs, sell drugs, and commit any crime because the cops can’t do shit. If you are going to murder some one, do it here, because we don’t solve murders here. The prevailing attitude of the day seems to be “Solving murders, arresting criminals?…you must be a racist!” Puh-leaze! Get these guys out of here.
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All of the enforcement in the world will not create a peaceful environment? Wow, I guess us who live in the Mission are on our own. Thanks Gav.
P.S. Neglecting one of the most cherished neighborhoods in the city might come back to haunt you Gavin. We won’t be silent during your gubernatorial race.