'I come from a third world country and it is not as bad as this': San Francisco

[Boiler 45,664]

$40m convention cancels because members are too SCARED to walk alone

• Convention is canceling its meeting in San Francisco because its board members feel unsafe in the city  
• Said it had three main concerns: open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness on display
• Last year, a board member was assaulted near the Moscone Center, where conventions are usually held
• Tourism is a big business in San Francisco, bringing in around $9billion a year and employing 80,000 people  
• Mayor-elect London Breed is being urged to increase police foot presence and mental health services
• Roughly 7,500 people in the city are homeless and an estimated 22,000 are intravenous drug users

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5914425/Big-convention-cancels-meeting-San-Francisco-citys-problems-homelessness-drug.html

Edited July 4, 2018 by Boiler

[TBoneTX 45,524]

3 hours ago, Boiler said:

Roughly 7,500 people in the city are homeless and an estimated 22,000 are intravenous drug users

With adjustment for overlap, what percentage of the total population would these groups be?

[Ironclad43 131]

That's what happens when you support open borders.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

With adjustment for overlap, what percentage of the total population would these groups be?

It's a very small percentage overall but they are making life in parts of SF and LA almost unbelievable by having homeless camps out in the open and shooting up drugs.

[Boiler 45,664]

Downtown Denver is getting a bit like that, so many people just avoid it, also issues in Boulder etc.

 

Not too good if you live/work in that area but you get what you vote for.

[charmander 692]

I've been to San Francisco for four or five times since 2006. My last visit was for a conference in Feb '16 for two days. Conference venue was near Union Sq, I also stayed in downtown. I noticed a big change in number of homeless as well. We were having lunch at a small restaurant and a homeless dude came in and asked for money from each table. He definitely looked like he was on something. God knows if he was carrying a knife or anything else. I've never had an experience like that in the US. Felt very uncomfortable. I was surprised restaurant owners were indifferent, no one asked him to leave. Maybe they were also scared to say something.

 

I was back at the valley April '17. Didn't go to SF, stayed near Sunnyvale-Mountain View area. I didn't notice any homeless there. Maybe it's just a downtown SF problem.

[Boiler 45,664]

Shame what was happened, must have been 12 years ago I was in San Fran and could see it going wrong then.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

3 hours ago, Boiler said:

Downtown Denver is getting a bit like that, so many people just avoid it, also issues in Boulder etc.

 

Not too good if you live/work in that area but you get what you vote for.

 

  Downtown Denver can't end up like that. It hit's -20 in the winter. 

 

  Doesn't really matter who you vote for, if you don't have a health system and social network that can get people off the streets, this is what happens. And, yeah, it does tend to be worse in cities with year round temperate climates. 

 

  

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Downtown Denver can't end up like that. It hit's -20 in the winter. 

 

  Doesn't really matter who you vote for, if you don't have a health system and social network that can get people off the streets, this is what happens. And, yeah, it does tend to be worse in cities with year round temperate climates. 

 

  

You are right on this. I know LA and the OC are getting bad because of doing nothing about the just setting up camps everywhere. 

 

The OC started clearing them out but then got sued by the advocates but luckily they were able to clear out of the river bed, Santa Ana, and Irvine before they got sued. The problem with the OC is that it has a lot of rehab centers there that once the 6 months are up the people are thrown out on the street. 

 

All the while LA and LA County hasn't really done anything for the homeless besides letting them set up camps all over LA City and getting a tax passed called HHH to supposedly help the homeless. 

 

San Francisco actually has a Feces map app to help avoid the poop on the street. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

18 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

With adjustment for overlap, what percentage of the total population would these groups be?

dont tell me the body snatchers got you also . 

[TBoneTX 45,524]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

dont tell me the body snatchers got you also

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[jg121783 3,917]

17 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Downtown Denver can't end up like that. It hit's -20 in the winter. 

 

  Doesn't really matter who you vote for, if you don't have a health system and social network that can get people off the streets, this is what happens. And, yeah, it does tend to be worse in cities with year round temperate climates. 

 

  

It also tends to happen in cities with year round radical leftist agendas running them. Some of the homeless people are there through no fault of their own but we all know many of them just don't want to work and the mentality of entitlement and perpetual government handouts doesn't help the situation.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

19 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Downtown Denver can't end up like that. It hit's -20 in the winter. 

 

  Doesn't really matter who you vote for, if you don't have a health system and social network that can get people off the streets, this is what happens. And, yeah, it does tend to be worse in cities with year round temperate climates. 

 

  

Funny Miami does not have that problem 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

San Francisco Logs Over 16,000 Feces Complaints in One Week

 

https://newswars.com/san-francisco-logs-over-16000-feces-complaints-in-one-week

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Funny Miami does not have that problem 

 

  I was in Miami at the beginning of June. They certainly do have that problem.