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SF Mayor Says Her City is Drowning in Poop: ‘There's More Feces … Than I've Ever Seen'
2018-07-16
[Daily Caller] San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the streets of her city are flooded with the excrement of the homeless in an interview Friday.

Breed, a Democrat who was inaugurated as San Francisco’s mayor Wednesday, urged homeless advocacy groups that receive money from the city to teach homeless people to “clean up after themselves.”

“There is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed told KNTV. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans.”

The streets of San Francisco are littered with a “dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces”, KNTV’s investigative team reported in February after surveying the city’s streets.

“We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,” preschool teacher Adelita Orellana told KNTV. “Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are dangerous, and they should never be touched.”

There are about 7,500 homeless people living in San Francisco according to the city, which will spend nearly $280 million this year on housing services for the homeless.

Breed said San Francisco’s high cost of living cast the city’s homeless onto the streets.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#17  The dangerous health issues from germs becoming airborn with dried poop

We assume that is how Mr. Wife contracted amoebic dysentary in India back in 1991. He wasn’t there long enough even to have eaten or drunk something off, but ended up hospitalized over there for about ten days before the parasite specialist cured him. I’m told Mr. Wife was very lucky — had he come home before it manifested, the American doctors would not have recognized the problem, allowing it time to become chronic.
Posted by: trailing wfe   2018-07-16 21:21  

#16  The dangerous health issues from germs becoming airborn with dried poop hasn't been mentioned much, along with the homeless being able to block streets not being safe to pass panhandling, I have read how many people have started taking Uber to work where they used to walk to get to work but it's too dangerous, contaminated needles, city losing money due to private businesses with vagrants outside their door & conventions going elsewhere. All under Democrat policies. What used to be common sense of decent behavior has been lost. Tents and people taking up public space should not be allowed as it infringes on the rights of all, along with all the unsafe areas they create. Not to forget that among these tented areas, terrorists could hide away with who knows what kind of armorments in these spaces dangerously close to downtown governmental buildings. Laws should be enforced to not allow this on public space. But it's not going to happen, the latest I read was SF was planning more safe free zones to shoot up drugs. So very sad, as San Francisco used to be a great city, I hope it doesn't spread to other cities, we've got to stop this and those that support this sick Democrat philosophy. Gorb suggested Portland and Eugene which is near and dear to my heart, this unhealthy sickness needs to be stopped before it continues like a cancer throughout other cities.
Posted by: Jan   2018-07-16 19:19  

#15  I thought SF was grossly overrated even before the latest shit storm
Posted by: Regular joe   2018-07-16 18:37  

#14  C'mon Roger29 Palms, to quote Insty, where's the graft in that?
Posted by: AlanC   2018-07-16 17:37  

#13  
I would like to see some insights into the forces that created this situation. Not interviews of the suits but the victims of same.
How can the trillions of debt this country had forced upon us by the likes of What-Real-Estate-Bubble? Bernanke and the 2009 UN Nobel Peace Prize winner not have created a market place for workers? Obviously liberal incompetence is one answer and there are others. What a crime. My feeling is these homeless and likely oxy painkiller enthusiasts would rather be working. What a novel concept, Mr. Bernanke. You too, Mr. Transparent Administration. Meaningful work, not a government check. Not an empty and tedious speech.
But, when there are legacies to be created...universes to be properly shaped...note 'properly'.
Posted by: Roger29 Palms   2018-07-16 15:02  

#12  They really blew it when they turned Alcatraz Island into a national park. It'd be the perfect place to incarcerate vagrants.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-07-16 13:00  

#11  $40K seems a bit much, but then there's the 'support infrastructure & personnel' costs to consider.

Cheaper for us out here in the hinterlands to just buy these folks a one-way bus ticket to either coast (~$250).
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2018-07-16 12:08  

#10  You get more of what you allow and more of what you subsidize.

SanFran has been throwing money at the homeless and allowed them to do whatever they want.

Now, you have feral homeless and a fuckton of them.

Enjoy.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-07-16 09:01  

#9  Bring back strict vagrancy laws and enforce them.

Laws? We don't need no stinking laws....they stink just fine without it!!

This is what the anarchy they want gives us. Either the Norms have to rise up and put a stop to this $#it or the entire country will devolve to this.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-07-16 08:53  

#8  And that's just on the City Council!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-07-16 07:56  

#7  40 years ago Harvey Milk passed his signature (and only) legislation: The Pooper-Scooper Law. Admittedly aimed at dogs in the Castro, a fitting tribute to the "Saint of San Francico" would be to apply it to the current strays on city streets.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulaise3834   2018-07-16 07:48  

#6  You get what you tolerate.

You've made 'victims' of all of your electorate in the name of a few.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-16 07:37  

#5  "There are about 7,500 homeless people living in San Francisco according to the city, which will spend nearly $280 million this year on housing services for the homeless."

There's your problem, right there. Stop spending that money. Round them up and put them a camp, no drugs or alcohol. They get clean or they die from withdrawal. Bring back strict vagrancy laws and enforce them.,
Posted by: Uneling Whimble1541   2018-07-16 07:24  

#4  Where the rubber meets the, um, when the sh*t hits the, eh...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-07-16 07:11  

#3  “We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,” come to San Fran and smoke some hash.

Sounds like a tourism tag line for a come visit San Fran commercial.
Posted by: Airandee    2018-07-16 06:20  

#2  almost $40k per person
Posted by: lord garth   2018-07-16 05:07  

#1  Haha! And Portland and Eugene, Oregon, too.
Posted by: gorb   2018-07-16 03:25  

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