I'm going to guess your "solution" is boots on the ground....since you parade that thought about Nashville.....next time you visit SF bring your poopy scooper....if you love dogs, then poop on the ground is something you deal with all the time. Don't forget your boots though...you'll need them.. I've read some really shitty articles about violence and crime in Nashville but I don't bother to highlight it here just to show how crime and homelessnes are in Tennessee......get soft on some of that! When you have a handle on your backyard you can criticize places thousands of miles away from your home state. You can probably find human feces in most ghettos in the world but are you really looking for that? Baffles the mind.
Last time I was in SF, they actually had a squad of street washers hosing down streets for Human poop. And this was going around at night too. This was pre-covid, apparantly its gotten much worse.
Good to hear ....I wish my neighbors would wash down their puppy farm more often...when the wind blows from the east it's hard to escape. Porta potties reek....folks use them at parties though and concert venues! That's some serious piles of shit in a sauna on the street...people don't seem to get upset about them! That 52 block ghetto in LA has to be fairly ripe on a daily basis baking in the sun too....traveling China people shit in trenches outdoors and plant food on top of it in the fall...it's called night soil in Chinese. Gross stuff but let's not pretend like it's exclusive to SF...it's not ....we put diapers in dark green garbage cans that bake in the sun too.....just some shit perspective..now the needles on the streets are a different issue...that's like New York City in the 70s....
The problem is still pretty terrible. They can't get it all, and its just insane to have a society where people poop on the street. Especially one as wealthy as San Francisco.
I haven't been to SF since '14, but yeah, when we would leave our hotel for an early breakfast there were city employees already at work, cleaning up the poop and hosing down the urine (supposedly they're now painting building exteriors with paint that "repels" the urine, but I have no idea how that is working). We really appreciated that they were doing the clean up, but it is sad that it has come to that, especially on an every day basis. BG, my two oldest granddaughters and I will be swinging through SF mid next month to catch a Giants game and it will be interesting to see how (good or bad) things have changed in 8 years......though other than to do dinner at Harry's Hunan we won't be wandering far from the vicinity of the ballpark......
Apparently San Francisco is a failed city because of ... Chesa Boudin's grandfather! I have never had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Boudin but unlike ABM, whose knowledge is based on one hit piece, I have been familiar with his work for decades. He is not a radical. He is a civil libertarian. Believed civil liberties are for everyone, even if they have unpopular views. Black Panthers, communists, and his daughter. Kathy Boudin was a radical who went drastically off track, but her influence on San Francisco is about zero. Chesa Boudin had the very unradical notion of reforming criminal justice system from within. Unlike him, I am a socialist and question whether that is possible. Countries like Somalia are called failed states. Central government doesn't really control and is totally corrupt. Country in state of perpetual war. San Francisco has problems like every place. The right makes what are usually local stories into fake national scandals to "prove" the failure of liberals and queers, knowing people like ABM will swallow without question. Not a failed city, a failed hit job.
Boudin was recalled. Simple as that. For reasons well known to the (mostly liberal) San Francisco voters. Interested to see how the mayor steps up in finding his replacement.
