I live in SF. In the Tenderloin specifically where all this excitement seems to be about. Hence the throwaway.
There is no crime wave. There is a lot of drug use and mental illness visible on the streets in two small neighborhoods in the entire city. The Tenderloin and Soma which wrap the now, post covid, more vacant downtown. The rest of the city is as clean and safe as ever.
Here’s the real thing to consider. I’m sure you, like most people that voted to remove the DA and support this insane surveillance initiative, do not live in the affected neighborhoods. You won’t be now subjected to 24 hour police surveillance just for the crime of living in the wrong zip code like myself and my neighbors will.
We tried broken windows policing for 30 years. And all it did was balloon the criminal records of young males who were unlucky enough to live in the zip codes and neighborhoods that received the majority of police attention in cities throughout the country. Leave my neighborhood alone. If you want to live in a 24 hour police state, enable it for your neighborhood first.
The reality is that once downtown recovers from the office vacancies caused by the covid remote work shift, things will return to normal. With or without putting me under 24 hour surveillance.
There is no crime wave. There is a lot of drug use and mental illness visible on the streets in two small neighborhoods in the entire city. The Tenderloin and Soma which wrap the now, post covid, more vacant downtown. The rest of the city is as clean and safe as ever.
Here’s the real thing to consider. I’m sure you, like most people that voted to remove the DA and support this insane surveillance initiative, do not live in the affected neighborhoods. You won’t be now subjected to 24 hour police surveillance just for the crime of living in the wrong zip code like myself and my neighbors will.
We tried broken windows policing for 30 years. And all it did was balloon the criminal records of young males who were unlucky enough to live in the zip codes and neighborhoods that received the majority of police attention in cities throughout the country. Leave my neighborhood alone. If you want to live in a 24 hour police state, enable it for your neighborhood first.
The reality is that once downtown recovers from the office vacancies caused by the covid remote work shift, things will return to normal. With or without putting me under 24 hour surveillance.