After C. W. Nevius's article in the Chronicle about the homeless advocates once again mobilizing to block enforcement of laws on living in the Park, I officially give up all hope that the "homeless" problem will ever end. So it's goodbye Main Public Library, goodbye Golden Gate Park, goodbye a major stretch of Market Street (from Powell to Octavia), goodbye to much of Van Ness, goodbye Civic Center. All of these areas are no longer for the majority of the population. They are for the homeless to do whatever they please in. I would just remind people of the photographs Read This Posty »

Now that there is pressure on vagrants in some parts of the City, they are moving back onto the 1500 block of Market street. Any given morning there are at least 5 and usually as many as 10 or more people camping and drinking and drunk in that block by 8:00 in the morning. Another part of why they keep appearing there is because there is a store in that block that sells liquor very early in the morning and also allows them to keep their shopping carts in their store - so that they can continue to cynically take Read This Posty »

Professionals living in such a great city as San Francisco have the right to be able to commute to and from work in a dignified manner using public transportation!  Instead, as a rule (not exception), we are sandwiched in on the bus, often with drunks, drug addicts and REEKING homeless people.  We need more frequent buses (I ride the 38 line), we need drivers to be accountable for not showing up to work, and please tell the drivers not to let stinky homeless people on.  Forget fairness and treating everyone with respect - it is utterly unfair to force everyone Read This Posty »

The broken windows theory outlined below is exactly why I ask people to stay on top of new encampments of drunks and junkies as they appear in neighborhoods. Market Street west of Van Ness is a perfect example of an area that such people are trying to take over. That is why I call the police every time I pass a drunk passed out on the sidewalk or trying to set up a camp or just sitting getting drunk making rude comments to passersby. I hope everyone is doing this also. And once again, I would like to say that Read This Posty »

In April a comment on a post here contained this sentence: Cops should be giving 100% of their attention to violent crime, not making things look shiny and hiding the realities of poverty. Why do so many people complain about this? I fail to see the logic, and no, I'm not high at the moment." Leaving aside the unfounded assumption that drunks in the street are really just unfairly targeted poor people rather than drunks who are poor because they're drunks, there is the wonderfully helpful concept of "The Tipping Point". Five years ago, there were no "homeless" in my neighborhood. Then Read This Posty »

I guess it was inevitable despite our efforts to keep the bums out of our neighborhood, there is one now regularly sleeping in front of our building. I called the Police General Dispatch and got a self-righteous little jerk (Dispatcher 80, I believe) who began to lecture me that homelessness is not a crime. Yeah, like I was calling because the person is homeless. No, I was calling because the person trashes the front of our building and uses the back for a toilet. But that didn't matter to this dispatcher as he was well versed in the lies-designed-to-shame-critics crafted Read This Posty »

I got a letter yesterday from a friend I had written to about the ruination of SF by drunks and those who advocate public drunkenness and its attendant filth (aka "Homeless Advocates"). His response contained a sentence that I think sums it all up: "Living up here in Seattle, I see some of the same creeping consensus to do nothing so as to offend no one but irritate nearly all." Perfect. This is for Jessica below who has the van in front of her house. You ask what rights you have? In the eyes of the people who run this city: Read This Posty »

I ride the 38 Geary to work every day, and the service has gotten progressively worse.  After sometimes waiting 15-20 minutes for the 38L, we are packed in like cattle, and people are fighting to fit onto the very last step on the back door.  This is the RULE, not the EXCEPTION during rush hour!!  You have the drunks and drug addicts, but many are professionals trying to get downtown to work, and we do not deserve to be treated this way.  I have heard that drivers are allotted a certain number of no-show days.  This is UNREAL!  In any Read This Posty »

My pet peeves: Homeless on every corner especially the rude ones that don't take no for an answer.  Streets that are in shabby condition and falling apart.  Politician's that have affairs and think nothing of it.  Older men that date young girls barely out of high school.  The lack of morals and values that breed like bacteria from the leaders of this city and trickle down to the above mentioned homeless.  I'm sick to death of seeing grown men urinating and masterbating on the city streets.  And while I'm at it I really am disgusted with how smokers rights are Read This Posty »

Dear Mayor Newsom, Your proposal for a similar Quality of Life community court system like the one in NYC sounds good. We have been waiting for you to finally get around to addressing quality of life issues for some time now. Actually, we have been waiting for the last four years for you to do something to help us. Your office of community services has ignored us for the last four years, as a matter of fact we do not even know if they know we exist. Our e-mails have gone unanswered by them. So we just gave up trying to Read This Posty »