KPIX Special Report: San Francisco's Tenderloin - A State of Emergency

[@DeeKay0h]

I was homeless in San Francisco for 5 years. Sleeping in doorways, getting high in alleyways, shoplifting, and being an all around piece of garbage. I got so sick of it all that I disassociated from everyone I knew and quit using drugs. For like 6 weeks I sat by myself at the park or at union square just reading books I found in the streets. I was feeling so alone and finally thinking a bit more clearly so I decided to try rehab instead. I have been sober for over 3 years now, but I don't think I would be able to say that if I hadn't moved away soon after I got sober. I am so thankful for the amazing people who helped me along the way. Project Homeless Connect, Project Open Hand, Baker Places, Ward 86... They are ANGELS!

[@CO2isfake]

Amazing! So happy for you.

[@thakery5720]

Good for you - never forget though that it was YOU who decided to go straight, You who did the things needed and it is YOU that you need to remain faithful to. If you ever are tempted to do drugs or revisit that kinda enviroment again remember that your 'inner man' or Id got you the hell outta that world, and you are too intelligent to be a drug addict again !

[@laurencekelly5081]

The fix is simple there are no homeless in China at all so hire the Chinese government to run America for say 10 years while your politicians take a well deserved break from running the country into the ground. What to pay the Chinese government simple they get to fully control the spending and taxation cutting out the waste and corruption and every year they get to keep what they save the taxpayer.

[@dextermcgrubbin]

@@laurencekelly5081 China most certainly has homeless. Where are you getting your info from?

[@paulabartholomew8497]

Much respect to you Sir.

[@takeitorleaveit7927]

A politician’s response: “we need more money” No, you need to better prioritize funds and stop scimming unallocated funds.

[@pheelmacababe2861]

accurate

[@lude4u2nv]

yeah and what political party runs this state and keeps getting voted in, year after year with problems worsening!!

[@takeitorleaveit7927]

@@lude4u2nv the same one that fought to keep slavery

[@resolution1]

She's a crook.

[@solidsoul28]

🎯 💯 all the excuses they come up with…

[@ALovelyLad]

Went to California for the first time last year. It’s definitely one of the most beautiful natural states here in the US but it’s shocking just how many people don’t care where they dump their garbage.

[@efo1358]

Yeah it’s sad to see this! I’m born in the BayArea and it’s the Democrats that beautify the community for profits! Who’s shoveling the next down the road! I grow up with AIDS/crackheads and gang violence in the BayArea! It’s just another political agenda for spending on bandages! Sadly it’s not the Summer of Loving in the real! Just be safe with a the visit around the woods! 🙏❤️👊🤙🦦

[@whoknowswhocares885]

We like bragging how progressive we are, but that’s a self pat on the back for good publicity.

[@Handle...This.]

@@whoknowswhocares885 you are 1,000% correct!

[@arik2216]

Because garbage is equal. It can be recycle for empowerment and diversity.

[@whoknowswhocares885]

@itp5x5 Yes, well expect this to be swept under the rug and only addressed to be ignored. Also don’t expect anyone to address the cities soft on crime movement either.

[@threethrushes]

I once read that some lives are lived as warnings to others. I now believe that some societies exist as warnings to others.

[@garybrunecz7785]

LOOK, WWIII AND TOTAL COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY IS IN ORDER SOON. SO YOUR WARNINGS CANNOT KEEP YOU OUT OF THE GATES OF HELL THAT HAS ITS DOORS WIDE OPEN AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY TO PREPARE YOURSELVES AND GET OUT OF THE HERDS OF ENDLESS DESPERATE SHEEPLE WHO WILL TURN ON EACH OTHER LIKE A PACK OF RABID WOLVES WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE. YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE WILL SOON BEOME THE REALITY YOU NEVER DREAMED POSSIBLE. BETTER BE GOOD AT HIDING AND LIVING IN SOLITUDE. THE GREAT RESET IS NOT A GLOBAL OPERATION MEANT FOR THE WEAK OF MIND. IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT YET. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON GENOCIDE, RACISM AND SOME SLAVERY. AND WAR IS THE BIGGEST BUSINESS THIS COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER. SO WHEN YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD FOR SO LONG AND CREATE MASS AMOUNTS OF GLOBAL ENEMIES. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. WE LIVED BY THE SWORD, SOON WE WILL DIE BY THE SWORD. BUT IT WILL NOT MATTER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T WAKE UP DEAD PEOPLE AND TELL THEM I TOLD YOU SO. JUST A BUNCH OF DUMBED DOWN SHEEP WHO HAVE NO CLUE WHO IS PLAYING THEM OR CALLING THE SHOTS TO THEIR DEMISE. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THE MONEY, LIFESTYLE AND TOYS THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON. GREED WILL BE THEIR MAIN DOWNFALL AS WELL AS THEIR EVIL, DEMONIC ANTI-CHRIST GENDERLY BENDERLY CHALLENED WAYS. DESTROYING A NATION FROM WITHIN IS FAR EASIER THEN THE BLOOD AND GUTS ROUTINE. CONSIDERING AMERICA LOVES MONEY MORE THEN ANYTHING. AND ANYONE OR ANYTHING IS FOR SALE FOR THE RIGHT PRICE. AMERICA THE WHORE OF BABYLON IS RIPE FOR THE TAKING.

[@asullivan4047]

That makes sense. Unfortunately other societies never learn from it.

[@LuciferMornStar]

I was homeless for a number of yrs after I served some time in TX. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to go to San Fran. I was stuck there a month. Anything they are saying is true,in fact they can't over state the problem.u can't take 2steps without setting ur foot down near a syringe. There are blocks that are run by Asian, Russian and other street gangs. U look down,u see nothing,hear nothing and walk fast. And I seen plenty! Good luck! I was thanking God for delivering me from that place! I now have my own apartment in Colorado. It's not quite rosey,but I have a place to lay my head thats mine!

[@SOUTHERNCALI1714]

GOD BLESS YOU

[@gravekeepersven82]

Im just glad you're safe and ok.

[@Handle...This.]

Life's a 🤬 man!

[@pgaven9396]

Why the heck would you gravitate to California of all places?

[@Yeah_eatsht]

Colorado is becoming a California.. over price, increase drugs.. ect ect... leftband never going back

[@Lp-bm8tc]

No no no no no no, it's not about help. I can speak on it. I was homeless and I was in prison for 5 years and stayed on probation for 3 years. U have to want to change it's not up to society to spoon feed. A lot of people got this thing twisted

[@chucke9492]

Yes,this is what I'm trying to say in my comment. This is a better way of saying what I'm trying to get across .thanks.

[@lpk6372]

Spoon feed you? Addiction isn't some easy fix you ex con. Nor will people get as lucky as you and get a job where they don't care about your past crimes. You've given no solutions to the problem. So by your words these people are lazy do nothing freeloaders so what should happen to them.

[@lapx1]

@@lpk6372 obviously they need to killed. Or else stop talking about it.

[@Elgreasyburrito650]

@@lapx1 they are being killed why do you think the government is flooding the streets with fentynol, it's the Crack epidemic all over again

[@nuraeonjedda-aisha9284]

True. But I'm not sure if it's spoon feeding. I've had first hand experience at how the city and the nonprofit industry or here INTENTIONALLY CREATE these issues. But it's easy for the city to psychologically mine screw the public into believing what they want them to believe. And fully blaming drug dealers and house less is just hiding the government collaborations.

[@thatgirlPAIGE94]

He is right: “People can change”. Doesn’t mean they will…

[@toniesedrick691]

Doesn't mean they won't either, also not everyone homeless is a drug addict. Biggest myth ever.

[@aaronh1232]

A Leopard can't change its spots.

[@thatgirlPAIGE94]

@@toniesedrick691 | I absolutely agree! Another myth is that all homeless people live on the street. Some have jobs and just cannot afford to live 😔

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

@@toniesedrick691 Nobody said everybody is a drug addict.

[@jhowardsupporter]

5:14 That sidewalk bobsledder got the moves. He going to the Olympics!

[@kevinkiso4579]

I began injecting heroin here in Seattle when I was eighteen/ nineteen years old. At the age of twenty-one I went into the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 138 months. I was released at the age of thirty- two and successfully made it though 6 months of living in a federal halfway house. While I was in that halfway house I was trained as a machinist fabricating airplane parts for the Boeing Airplane Company. When I left the halfway house and obtained my own apartment and remaining employed ... I relapsed, developing a whole new heroin addiction and eventually a federal warrant was put out for my arrest and I went back to prison for a year. After my release for the second time I had no parole and I went on another mad, insane dash through the haze and self imposed dread of another heroin habit. When I turned fifty, something shifted deep inside of my being. I began treatment here in Seattle at Evergreen Treatment Services. I didn't go through inpatient treatment; I didn't adopt any twelve step recovery program. I grew up a little bit and life began to look differently to me. I had been breaking my Mother's heart and putting her through the worst worry and hurt that any human being can possibly shoulder. Now she and I speak everyday. Trust and love has been restored and is flourishing freely. The same goes for my two sisters and one brother. And my aunties, etc. Today, I don't jaywalk. I don't keep a library book past its due date. I have a five hundred sq. ft., brand new apartment with a bathtub, shower, washer and dryer. I'm fifty-seven now and my monthly pension goes to #1 Paying my rent. #2 Paying my phone bill. And #3 Groceries. I have acquired several new addictions; I am hooked on viewing documentaries; historical, musical, biographical, and I devour books by the dozens weekly. I cannot believe that I am the same man that gave over thirty+ years of my life to injecting heroin. And I cannot believe the things I see on the streets of downtown Seattle. An addict would never get away with these behaviors and actions when I was addicted and on the streets. Besides, I always managed to maintain a measure of self respect and dignity. I would never expose a lady or a child to my behaviors as an addict. I spent twelve+ years in several different Federal Penitentiaries for a handful of non violent drug related offenses. It just takes some self reflection and a bit of personal growth. Peace everyone.

[@threethrushes]

Pretty amazing story! You are fortunate to have a good relationship with your parent - not everyone has that.

[@kevinkiso4579]

@threethrushes Thank you very much. Yes, I brought years and years of worry and hurt to my mother, and it took lots of work to build that trust back. 🙏

[@robynstephens166]

Thank you for sharing your journey in life. I have seen bad things out on the street and in abandoned dirty dark buildings while I was waiting for my next 'fix' to arrive. Came so so close to selling my body to pay for it in that abandoned dirty dark building with damp dirty mattresses and dirty needles because that is all I thought I was worth to the world and I was only 19-20yo, fresh meat for the market and still a virgin. Anyway, that was so long ago and I am glad I dragged myself out of that deep dark grey hole. I am still messed up with self esteem and trusting issues maintaining relationships of any sort but getting there wherever there is as long as it is not in that deep dark hole that is shitsville. Peace

[@davemusic7687]

What I want to know is how do you get a pension? You obviously didn't work much if you were in prison. I suppose the taxpayers are supporting you. The rest of us have to work into our 60s to get retirement. I'm sick of supporting people who make bad decisions. You had the same opportunity as everyone else. You chose the wrong path. That's on you.

[@stephenbanks5952]

Yes where does this pension and brand new apartment come from for an ex con? Something is not right there.

[@mobilemoke]

Its not a entrenched problem...they have been stealin the tax money and not helping anyone. Look at the Public Works Director who was indicted

[@arcengelraphael1082]

So true, and the homeless shelters have rules that make it impossible for people to get out. They have to be there at a time that is unreasonable if they are working out looking for a job, and the people that run the shelters enjoy upsetting homeless people and are just there to catch them on some arbitrary rule they choose to enforce or not to their convenience. It's absolutely disgusting how infested "human services" are with peopl nefarious people. Let's not forget that AIDS was given to people by the CIA in San Francisco. That city is a hub for the occult, and I wouldn't be there in the next few months because it's going to collapse when they destroy the base underneath the city.

[@nevergiveup9900]

Chief Scott and D.A. Boudin both should have been INTERVIEWED

[@dodieodie498]

How about Pelosi.

[@ohsugar5431]

Fired.

[@pamelamorris3148]

@@dodieodie498 She doesn't care because they keep voting her in office and she needs their votes

[@dodieodie498]

@@pamelamorris3148 I keep trying to figure out what Pelosi has done for her constituents so that they keep voting her in.

[@horseplop9]

@@dodieodie498 @NaturallyPaige_ It's fine. BIDEN and Pelosi will fix all of this

[@andrewexpo]

The people running SF ruined the city. This is like putting a bandaid on a sinking ship.

[@chromebomb]

its been dying for over a hundred years

[@GSM92]

@@chromebomb Truckers passing through San Francisco crossing the bay Bridge into Oakland

[@MiC-T]

A band-aid would never stop a sinking ship, dude. Band-aids are only for like small scratches on people.

[@milesmayhem5440]

@@MiC-T you get it! Maybe you should run for mayor.

[@ciello___8307]

at least they are trying

[@leokimvideo]

The grim reality here is during the Biden era this problem has only become worse.

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

Nope. It was way worse under Trump.

[@dougbrowne9890]

@@PatrickPierceBateman Shouldn't you be smoking crack on the street corner?

[@asullivan4047]

What else is new-???🤔Just leave it to " bozo " biden😈 & side kick harris😈. More concerned about the illegal border croser.

[@randygeyer7673]

These issues have existed for over 30 years. Nothing has changed.

[@maggiemea]

Been longer than that. I remember visiting my grandparents in the 70’s and seeing homeless people and my parents telling me that they were mentally ill war veterans that the government discarded like trash.

[@maretvilla1531]

It's a little tumor back then that turned into a cancer. That's what makes it different now. Democrats would never have the will to solve this. Democrat cities are plagued with this kind of problem and it will just continue getting worse especially with San Francisco.

[@anarchorepublican5954]

...only if change has gotten first..

[@truthmatters4520]

The problem just keeps growing, and growing.

[@ddean4391]

The tenderloin has been this way my whole life. This is not new

[@FIGNAS83]

I accidentally found myself on this street with my family after staying at a hotel around the corner. Saw drug deals in the open and people shooting up with syringes all over the floor. Flagged down a cab and got the heck out of there.

[@Elgreasyburrito650]

Yer Hella lazy it's like a 2 block walk out of there

[@Kharkovkid]

@@Elgreasyburrito650 And it`s only a few steps down the hall to the death house... So, What`s your point?!? He was unfamiliar with the area, and which way to go, but not the danger. Best money he ever spent...

[@Elgreasyburrito650]

@@Kharkovkid the comment wasn't that serious

[@Kharkovkid]

@@Elgreasyburrito650 Self defense gurus tell us that being accosted by the "homeless" is the most common and yet most dangerous interaction that the average person will have on a day to day basis...Good on him for listening to his gut.

[@puggirl007]

Now that! Was the best thing you did God bless you!

[@royyoung3456]

The beginning of my recovery started in Sacramento. I was arrested, and spent 28 days in jail. That was only the beginning, but now it has been 35 yrs clean.

[@superameric8]

That is great news! Congrats!

[@williamdonnelly224]

Respect to you.

[@maggiemea]

Very happy and proud of you Roy 👍👏🙏🏻

[@lovelessissimo]

Because of Prop 47, no one else will get that chance.

[@cyjeren1627]

luv U Roy, cangrats!

[@user-ys9sc2hl4e]

Nothing could be more American than this USA!!USA!!USA!!

[@stevenleslie9699]

I lived in SF for 25. years and heard the same thing every few years. The problem has definitely gotten worse, but the empty rhetoric from politicians has mostly stayed the same.

[@renerodriguez8983]

Keep voting these DAM DEMONCRATES, it will get even worse !

[@mackcappel844]

This is what amazes me. Year after year vote these same politicians in who live like kings and guess looting these cities and selling out our country. They along with the media have thrown out nothing but distractions. Love him or hate him look how they went after trump, when these people have profited so greatly while at least trump built his empire , of course there’s corruption there but my god nothing like what these elected officials have done! Wake up California liberals!

[@ntl9974]

Black politicians Money from the Jewish community

[@davidpacheco795]

@@renerodriguez8983 He will. My neighbors are the same way. They leave shit holes caused by Demacraps and move to your town and destroy it.

[@caribman10]

That's because it ISN'T THE "POLITICIANS" JOB TO FIX THIS. It's the citizens responsibility. They just shirk it.

[@mistrjt9213]

Unpopular opinion: Stop wasting money on stalls where they can shoot up “safely” and allocate those funds to people who can actually use it to make a positive changes in their lives.

[@SigmaSara]

I am a former resident of SF, and the Tenderloin has been on the decline for decades! Most of the people living on the streets there are mentally ill, and have been forsaken by federal and local governments. They need to be put back into mental institutions so that they get the help and meds they need!

[@bighouse6120]

I think you're right. Reopen the state hospitals.

[@wildrose5554]

Most mental institutions suck so people don’t get proper care since it’s more than just meds, they need fully licensed staff

[@bighouse6120]

@@wildrose5554 Back in the day the state hospital in Toledo OH was a sprawling campus where there were many patients getting treatment. I think it was for the good. Don't give mentally ill people money to live on the streets, and terrorize the neighborhood.

[@miakodemelo]

@Whiskey Darling Yes, it is the governments job to “take care of people”, it’s literally the definition of ‘government’. Most of these people are mentally ill, or addicts. We are civilized and civilized people take care of those that can’t take care of themselves. Elderly, children, mentally ill, handicapped, you know, people that need to be cared for. I’m sure you’re a Christian , right?

[@rmzndhszs2587]

@Whiskey Darling that's the whole point of having a government actually....

[@NancyAki-z6l]

When my family and I formerly came to San Francisco for an afternoon at Golden Gate Park and a delicious dinner at Fisherman’s Wharf back in the fifties and feeling safe wherever we went, it is so tragic anyone has to be homeless and be affected by drugs. It is obvious from what is seen in so many cities these days, that this should not be allowed to go on.

[@CoKanet-no2jt]

Open up Alcatraz, lock them in till sober

[@milesmayhem5440]

Better yet, dump them off on the Farallon Islands.

[@miket4234]

best idea so far. open back alcatraz

[@christinamarin4875]

that's an interesting idea 💡 🤔

[@leroytomas6442]

The only emergency is that the midterms are coming up. Nothing will change .

[@wanaraz]

I Can't wait.

[@georgemichael9106]

It’s so satisfying to see voters getting exactly what they voted for.

[@keelsmac01]

No. We didn’t vote for newsom. We tried to get him out and I’m telling you they’ve been stealing elections with no pushback for a decade.

[@Nautical-g3c]

Yeah, this happens when they voted for women

[@adogomesdasilva3700]

Lefts are the lefts. They never make good things happen...They do not know manage anything

[@chrispbacon7533]

Now bring them in front of the homes of the filthy SJWs!

[@LiberalsArePoop]

When are you getting back together with Andrew Ridgely?

[@colinoverton790]

I lived close to San Francisco over 40 years ago. It seems nothing has changed.

[@jean9l187]

The statement made by the one homeless man regarding his attitude about drug addiction should be emphasized: if I am permitted to use my drugs at these places, I will choose to procrastinate getting off them, and just continue using." If the government makes it more comfortable to stay homeless and abusing drugs, the behaviors will most likely continue. Very complex issue

[@noahshields507]

That homeless man is smarter and more self aware then 90% of the commenters here

[@Wavyso]

The issue isn't complex at alk its just people want to be politically correct and meander instead of doing what needs to be done

[@DMitsukirules]

@@Wavyso well I live in a place where we do aggressively prosecute and we still have high homeless and the most meth usage around, along with fentanyl

[@LuciferMornStar]

Very true! Sooner or later the user has to make a decision. Live or die! That simple if they choose to live then their ready for help tho it will still be difficult!

[@LuciferMornStar]

@MC Dano prison isn't the answer you are correct. Since the 50s the solution for the mentally ill and drugaddicts and alcoholics has been prison. In my case thats what it took to save me.

[@meilamng1]

Thank you for your passion in this coverage to save San Francisco. Corruption in our gov and so-called non-profits invite more homeless people and drug users to SF. Hope people will wake up and vote corruption out.

[@hapakii]

Homeless problems are ATM machines for politicians. Nothing gets fixed if politicians and friends line their pockets. There is zero oversight or transparency of how millions of dollars are spent. Non-profits are just a front for politicians.

[@pamelamorris3148]

Nancy Pelosi needs their votes and continues to invite them there and offers more resources than the working man and woman.

[@coachelly86]

This is just gibberish, got a real solution to this? Or are you just advocating for throwing everyone in jail?

[@Jianju69]

@@coachelly86 People will be as bad as you allow them to be. It's high time we started expecting people to behave like adults. Yes, lots of people do have mental problems, yet we are making those problems ever worse by allowing this chaos to continue.

[@sierrajade63]

Its a nice thought,but even the voting system is rigged. Demoncraps CHEAT.

[@teeminator30]

😢 We’re in Seattle, and at the pace we’re “progressing” we’ll be neck to neck with SF in a few years. I used to take my kids downtown for ice cream, music and street fairs. Now? It’s homeless tents, naked bodies, constant police sirens, car break-ins, and garbage piles. We have a defective political system.

[@bw2408]

Yes because the council is woke and rotten, they do not beleive in good or less crime they make too much money. And they have the worst governor ever .He now thinks every one should give up their guns yeah sure brilliant just let criminals run everything!

[@tearthemhindpartsup]

Wait... "naked bodies?"

[@jayo9750]

It has nothing to do with politics. And everything to do with inflation. And greed. Americans cant afford to live off these wages anymore Things need to change and we need to stop letting big companies and investment firms buy up all the housing

[@Ziaoe]

With all of the high value real estate in the USA, our cities should have the most abundant and beautiful public housing in the world. Whose pockets are lined with all of that money from big city property taxes?

[@michaeltrevino201]

@@bw2408 you know there is homelessness, drug use and crime in conservative run towns, right? You talk about guns but conveniently forget that it was a republican governor in California that pissed all over the constitution by making it illegal for California citizens to open carry.

[@PP-bm7zp]

My wife and I travelled around the states for 7 months and travelled 30,000 miles about 7 years ago. Amazing trip and absolutely loved the states. San Fransisco was absolutely disgusting even back then, can only imagine what it’s like now. Watched a guy take a shit right in front of me in the middle of the day on the footpath.

[@razmatazz9310]

"Watched a guy take a shit right in front of me in the middle of the day on the footpath." Damn, guy couldn't even take a dump in peace without some tourists ogling.

[@RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

I'm 70 years old. The tenderloin hasn't changed SINCE I WAS BORN.

[@TqSNv9R0iG5Ckxew]

Only the names of the elected democrats have changed.

[@Lurch685]

@@TqSNv9R0iG5Ckxew except Feinstein.

[@wanaraz]

And who has been running San Francisco ? DemocRATS!

[@SURENITY]

It has only gotten worse.

[@TqSNv9R0iG5Ckxew]

@@SURENITY I agree 100% Democrats aren't the same people that they used to be. If JFK came back to life tomorrow, the Dems would call him a right-wing extremist by today's wacky standards.

[@callspreadzero854]

What’s amazing is how people in the Bay Area and really, the state at large, refuse to speak out against the exact policies that helped lead to this. Sure, all the other variables exist, but if you can’t take responsibility for your part, no amount of housing supply will fix it.

[@mrsleep0000]

The worst part is they keep looking to the very same politicians that created this mess to fix it.

[@eggheadusa]

I’ve literally seen people dying, people with knifes saying “ima kill you” to people walking by (I had to walk by and hope not to get poked)

[@riverbedfred7352]

Yep, that's liberals for you. Privileged and ignorant

[@Miakitty4233]

California is speaking but our words go on deaf ears.

[@pugilist102]

Imagine yourself, a voice of reason in a cacophony of liberalism. That is my life at the moment.

[@dp-ub2vb]

According to the New York Post, "After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded that cities “Defund the police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed cut $120 million from the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts “could impact our ability to respond to emergencies.” Listen: 14:18 - 14:56; Mayor Breed, you have the audacity to ask the federal government to fund more officers in your city? Had YOU not defunded your police during blm, you would already have the resources in play. Now, pay for your own damn problems! How dare you?!

[@juliaha4934]

Here here Dustin Powell

[@BabaYaga-yh3yi]

Well, what did you expect from a typical liberal career politician? She would turn on anybody for a vote.

[@pinkvelvet3865]

They want to defund the police. But they are the one who commit most crimes and they are the one who always calling for police.

[@beach_boy1141]

If you don’t think all of that was the whole plan in the first place then you are naive. All one big plan.

[@carolyncox7073]

@@pinkvelvet3865 @"The BIBLE" Greatest Book Ever Written. Last Days Prophesy! Babylon The Great (America) has Fallen. All Praises To The Most High and his Son, The Black Messiah. Pink Velvet, Caucasian, The Most Destructive On Earth. ELOHIM Vengeance Is Upon America The Wicked!!!

[@klutzykate123]

The true homeless accept help, the drug addicted don’t. Quit calling them homeless. It’s F’ing ridiculous already

[@asullivan4047]

Homeless is the correct word-!!! Ask the next diabolically incompetent democratic party council member you see-!!!😉

[@gettygs6518]

Look at the problems we have in the country but everyone praying for Ukrainians sending all the blessings to them but your own. Even willing to fight for foreigners but not your own. I pray for the people in America

[@sebastianperea5669]

That’s right

[@irobu]

Man drug addiction is a complex problem n California policies only makes it easier. It's sad n there is no easy solution. They have da right to be a junkie and that won't change till they seek treatment

[@skylover8187]

We have been and will be praying for our own. But, it’s our Government in DC and California that don’t care about the people. This administration is destroying the World not just America 🇺🇸. Get in good with God you will be standing in front of Him soon.

[@tru3293]

Drug addiction and war are two vastly different subjects

[@thehardertheyfall2702]

Exactly I been on the streets for 13 years and my own people (CHRISTIANS) WON'T EVEN HELP ME. DON'T DESIRE TO EITHER. STILL HOMELESS.

[@NoalFarstrider]

I've had to work during the pandemic. I can't afford to live in San Francisco... Why aren't they giving people like me houses instead of the drug addicts?

[@robloxvids2233]

Because you're an evil capitalist!!

[@chrisward4576]

Because they need you to pay all the tax money for the homeless, work lots of overtime🤣🤣🤣

[@Unknown-uk7nk]

@Hoffmann-Walter Photography 5 of my co-workers live in our workplace parking lot in hayward. But drug addicts get free tiny houses and even clean syringes to keep on being junkies. Smh.

[@AngelaWrightSnaPPinGLiFE]

You Conformed So You Don't Qualify .... 🤔 Also That 10k That Was Supposedly Going To Be Given To Essential Workers ie. Grocery Workers etc. was Dispensed of and Forgotten as The Pandemic Continued On. Due To Grocery Workers and Others Including My Son Not Being Able To Fight For It ... Because They Were At Work. Working To Help Feed The Masses .. Nurse's and Doctor's Know The Risk of Working in Healthcare. My Son and Others Outside of Healthcare Didn't Sign Up To Work With The Possibility of Dieing of a Disease. Everyone Got Paid Except The Real Brave People....The One's on Minimum Wages.. Everyone should be Ashamed of This.. Without Store Personnel Everyone Had The Potential of Starvation... Let that Simmer on Your Brain ... I Personally Thank Each And Everyone of You For Risking You & Your Families Lives . For Coming To Work On Mornings When Your Bodies Screamed Please "NO MORE"... I Thank & Salute You! I Pray For Peace & Prosperity To Find You... Stay Rising Y'all are The Shit and the Fabric of What America Once Was..... I APPRECIATE YOU! ☮💙💜☮

[@whyyeseyec]

Why do you think you should be 'given' a house??

[@musashi-san____1409]

Laughable to ask state, and federal for help with a problem YOU CREATED!

[@tjmiller6159]

That's right Democrats run the whole state they can do anything they want they don't do anything for these people they're very hypocritical people

[@robertm.6583]

@@tjmiller6159 And now they will pretend it wasn't their fault and that they fixed it.

[@tjmiller6159]

@@robertm.6583 hahaha....RIGHT.

[@thefatkid604]

I was homeless in San Francisco for 5 years. Sleeping in doorways, getting high in alleyways, shoplifting, and being an all around piece of garbage. I got so sick of it all that I disassociated from everyone I knew and quit using drugs. For like 6 weeks I sat by myself at the park or at union square just reading books I found in the streets. I was feeling so alone and finally thinking a bit more clearly so I decided to try rehab instead. I have been sober for over 3 years now, but I don't think I would be able to say that if I hadn't moved away soon after I got sober. I am so thankful for the amazing people who helped me along the way. Project Homeless Connect, Project Open Hand, Baker Places, Ward 86... They are ANGELS!

[@AliasHSW]

Relocate them to rehabilitate and work on a farm in the Central Valley. Help them stay clean and be a productive part of society

[@lotto5742]

Hell no. Stay away from the Valley. Those bums can stay in shitty SF.

[@hapakii]

@@lotto5742 I bet you that if our Mayor pays your Mayor millions, you will get all our drug addicts

[@williamerazo3921]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@IntriguedLioness]

There's an interesting place 20 miles outside of Portland Oregon. It is a 1920s Poor House that was vacated for years and has been refurbished by McMenamins restaurant into a really nice hotel / Vineyard / restaurant / Spa. Seriously, it's wonderful and not only a nice drive from the city but it gives a great history by saving a lot of the original information and putting it up on the walls of how it was a poor house for nearly 1,000 men who were relocated to the farm and which supplied food for its tenants and also gave them room and board. As I recall reading at least one of the placards they were to get up at 5 a.m. to go work in the fields. There were no needle exchanges, no free amenities but serious work. Work on the farmlands which provided food for not only the tenants but the city of Portland. That's how they did it in the twenties and that property actually dealt with the depression and took on hundreds more than it was built for. I thought it was an interesting part of history and how unemployed but able-bodied people were housed 100 years ago.

[@hapakii]

You can do all you want. If the individual doesn’t want help or change, nothing you can do but let them drown.

[@SixTenVisuals]

Why is it a State of Emergency now?? The Tenderloin has been the way it is for a few decades.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Because they want you to focus your attention on the homeless - and off the politicians.

[@mllee2008]

Two words...election year.

[@SixTenVisuals]

@@mllee2008 Good point. Didn't realize it was her 4th year.

[@AthenaLolita2]

Crazy

[@CA2SD]

The transparency in this report is the first step. Continue pressuring both the mayor and the D.A.

[@dr051267]

They think people are stupid I wouldn't forget what any of these people did I would vote them out of office they don't deserve to hold their positions they are only doing it because of the upcoming election in November people fall for this deserve what they get

[@ftswarbill]

*Better yet throw both of those scumbag Democrats in prison along with the other Democrats that caused this problem,* 👍

[@ll4680]

Fire them all! Elect independent minds who are not bought and sold by big tech and pharma

[@gringoloco4]

A black female mayor ? Will get pressured ... in hades. Laughable.

[@endthelogin]

Oh yeah Chesa Boudin’s really going to solve issues….

[@robertehatten4847]

California can’t find $24 billion that was spent on helping the homeless. Who is authorizing the checks that went out to nowhere. Someone needs to be jailed.

[@chasejones8302]

The biggest barrier seems to be the locals who enable the users, believing they are being kind hearted.

[@mimim7026]

You really think that's the "biggest barrier"? I can almost assure you that it's not. Let's say not a single local gives a single dollar or a sandwich to any of these people. Do they all clean themselves up and find good paying jobs and deposit their litter in an acceptable receptacle on their way out? LOL! Do they immediately heal from their mental and physical illnesses? Do they get sudden immunity from dope-sickness, for those who are addicted? Do their schizophrenic hallucinations suddenly evaporate without medication and treatment because no one bought them a sandwich today? Do they suddenly have a place to live? LOL You're self-delusional in service of your own beliefs, which have nothing to do with the reality of these lives. Do you really think the problem is due to locals who may use ultimately ineffective means to try to help? I'll agree that street-level handouts from locals won't fix the problem. But is that really the "biggest" obstacle here? I think it's not. In fact, I know it's not. Although I understand that is a comforting thought for you personally.

[@chasejones8302]

@@mimim7026 Someone is giving them stuff. I see people hand their cash to panhandlers locally myself. One guy asked me where the casino was. Had money to play I guess. We are the only country with overweight homeless. If nobody is giving them stuff, then how are they there? Think about it.

[@LunchboxNinja]

Worked in the Tenderloin for years, up until a few months ago. I had to leave. Years and years of being COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ignored by the city. They even pulled all the cops off the corners... then months later, put them back, but with a remit that they could only get involved in the event of an imminent danger to life and health. Well, at that point, it's too late. Spent too many mornings trying to protect my coworkers, too many mornings moving bodies, moving piles of feces, watching overdoses.... the city knew about this problem for years. The humans just didn't matter to anyone. Three bullets through my window, over a dozen attacks on me (just for walking), people trying to throw needles at me... I couldn't take it anymore. All they did was shuffle people around. No one cares.

[@alexjeon2180]

There is absolutely NOTHING anyone can do if the people on the streets don't want to help themselves FIRST. There's not enough philanthropy or money on this entire earth that can solve this problem unless they want to look at themselves in the mirror and make a change. For the sake of good people that want to have peace, safety, and be a productive member of society with a quality life, these degenerates should all be gathered-up and shipped out to tent cities in the middle of the California desert. If tents were good enough for our veterans serving in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, then they are certainly good enough for these losers of society.

[@LunchboxNinja]

@little draneThere's a philosophical argument called the Veil of Ignorance. I would ask that you apply the concept as a thought experiment, and then review your reply

[@LunchboxNinja]

@little drane Additionally, you have to understand the complex city and human factors that gave birth to this situation over the past 50 years.

[@Klacto1]

I commend your fortitude…I have lived in the city for 46 years …..traveling in and around the Tenderloin….I was younger when I arrived here from Mass. along with my brother….age 26 I was….I am about to turn 72 in a week…..I had my bike stolen parked across the street from the YMCA on a meter pole. Yah…..I came out of the YMCA dumbfounded…..my lock was left on the ground. I appreciate your story and quite frankly it amazes me that city residents outside the area have no idea of the drug sales and use. Glad you and others found a way out.

[@albertawheat6832]

@little drane Bot or troll ?

[@phoenixman8569]

the lady said, they are human beings, this is true to a point, until they trespass in your property heavily intoxicated, overdose on your driveway, set your dumpster bin on fire and break into your car, all of theses things and more have happened at my apartment building, i live in the area of Canada B.C with in a couple hours of VANCOUVER, and my city in its wisdom quickly built two homeless shelters, one north end one south end and the south one is right across the street from where i live, and all the chaos i mentioned only happened after the homeless shelter went in, and so many of their clients have been keeping the medics busy rushing over there to keep reviving the same addicts over and over again, I signed several protest papers against the shelter going in and it went in anyway bringing the criminal element to my neighbourhood so even housing does not work sometimes. So I've been wanted to move away from this negative neighbourhood, but rental are so high now its almost impossible...

[@fringeminority3224]

Vancouver is the most liberal City around. This is all your guys problems. You keep voting in these lefties and you will keep getting all the homeless drug addicts. Same as San Francisco got what'd voted for. San Francisco is a shithole like most big liberal cities

[@prestonphelps1649]

I live abroad. People often ask me whats going on with usa. I tell them America has AWOKEN

[@Modern_Nostalgia]

Soft on crime is hard on society. That's the problem.

[@vannesamagallon2985]

Sadly this is all over California

[@zerocool2727]

all over the world

[@brendabilotti1912]

Yup, Sacramento...is sooo bad too!!

[@zerocool2727]

@Joe Mama there is only one world and the usa is not far to become one more

[@veriitas33]

This ain't just in tenderloin, this is happening all over Sacramento, la, San Diego, but all over the west coast, midwest, east coast...... Even next door by the white house.....Basically this is what America has been and they can no no longer hide what America truly is a third world country.....they are now eating their own illness they spread all over the world

[@poisonedchrist7802]

Miss allow me to discuss my war on poverty plan a small new tax that the government should pass with a website that allows the general public to monitor every penny spent

[@JamesJonahJameson-MM]

This stuff has been going on since my parents lived in the area. According to them it’s always been an issue and it never seen better days. SF has so much money it’s unreal and yet they could never get this fixed. They think time will fix it. It’s been more than 40years. How much more time and money do you need?

[@jamesharrigan7063]

Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi stays in her lush brick 🧱 mansion. Just blame Trump, yeah that works.

[@kvasnaik8920]

This is wokeness at its best

[@davidlim1550]

Nonsense! These drug addicts, crazies and criminals do Not want to change but hang out on the streets because they think the hardworking tax paying residents owe them whatever they want to do!!!!!!

[@dt133071]

No worries when the big earthquake happens you will see how fast they will get their act together.

[@daniburke9452]

No they hangout in the street because they are high out of their minds

[@tonyt8805]

@ david t Do you realise that they're not even from San Francisco!

[@Stinder]

SF needs a big time overhaul! No tourists want to come, no one wants to hold a convention in SF, etc, etc.

[@johnwalter6410]

SF needs to stop voting democrat

[@jack-of-all-trades1234]

Walgreens left. No other US city has lost more residents.

[@Just..Me..]

No one wants to vacation in California. Let alone have conventions or have your children in the school system.

[@makeitmakesense2616]

@@johnwalter6410 it's not a Democrat or republican problem The state of California is immensely wealthy compared to the rest of the country The mild weather is different from the rest of the country The proximity to Mexico and drugs easily being sent into the state is different from the rest of the country The wealth disparity is different from the rest of the country Please stop making such easy broad excuses and LOOK AT THE ACTUAL ISSUES

[@hellokitty8552]

@@makeitmakesense2616 it IS a policy problem. The problem that DEMONRATS created to keep you in la la land.

[@deepg7084]

My family has owned businesses in Los Angeles for over 30 years. We've seen the problem get worse and worse even as more (taxpayer) money has been poured into it. It's a big racket honestly. The politicians and homeless advocacy agencies make a killing. Not to mention the contractors they hire to build units at $800K a pop. I meet homeless people every single day outside my business. Almost every single one is on drugs and from out of state and DON'T want housing. And yes, mental health is a major issue as well.

[@johnnydeep1599]

Because Democrats want open borders refugees, as many as possible just to get votes..they could careless about the country or the people

[@XxMeatShakexX]

Yep, bunch of deadbeats that just wanna get high and rot away. Should just buy a private island and give em all a week's worth of drugs and let em live their dream and quit wasting everyone's space, time, and energy.

[@nightreader1264]

You should of seen what happened in Austin, Texas when our dumb mayor let people camp. We ended up with (75 percent) people that came to our city to just camp. A couple of years later- we rolled back the camping ban. Millions are now being dumped into cleaning this up. Yes, help people. But some folks do not want to work- move on. If you need help- we need to help.

[@sheiladikshit5110]

fun fact: the majority of beds in homless shelters are empty on any given night, but the solution's always "more money", and "more construction". yet, they're unable to properly manage the existing infrastructure. in the rest of the world, this sort of corruption is solved by 7.62x39mm to the back of the head.

[@jglee6721]

Of course it is a racket and it will keep on getting bigger and bigger.

[@Stoker58]

This is some of the best reporting from a local news station I’ve seen in ages.

[@Zero-90977]

Why cos they actually pointed out a problem ? You know it's just surface level, right ? That guy higher up, Derek Kjar, that commented he was 5 years on the streets. 5 YEARS. You think u can do that no matter what city ?!

[@Stoker58]

@@Zero-90977 I’m not sure what you’re getting at but yes, because they actually pointed out a problem and explored potential solutions and current practices and their effectiveness. I don’t live in California but I understand homelessness and drug use is a huge problem and often it’s hard to find honest reporting on it.

[@Zero-90977]

@@Stoker58 Well, I didn't get how was this problem around for so long. Did they tackle that ?

[@Frederick0220]

Seattle is Dying is even better from the local ABC affiliate out there

[@juniorsir9521]

It’s crazy how drugs destroys people and ppl continue to use them. Drug dealers should be imprisoned for life all of them. Take all of that from the streets.

[@canelocarranza]

SF needs to get an emergency forced rehab for addicts busted, instead of jail time, SF needs to get what i would call an oasis program, the city invests in 2 cruise ships, 1 for women, 1 for men, hardcore addicts are forced on rehab ship for 2 weeks. The ships can have a fully staffed paramedic, security and counseling crisis team. Peoples privacy will be respected, each will have a room, a warm bed, food and showers. I think that by isolating individuals from their environment is key.

[@casterakabadman805]

Man that's crazy as s*** 🤣🤣🤣 cruise ships? I don't know if that's really solution based or just incentive to abandon one's obligations & slip into delirium knowing you'll end up being placed on a cruise ship and fed lobster bisque while your neglected family kisses your feet 😫🤣

[@tomjacobson7623]

Excellent idea. YOU pay for it.

[@lapx1]

Cheaper to kill dude. This is war!

[@cius2112]

@@tomjacobson7623 man yall paying for nothing already might as well pay for something lmfao

[@Lurch685]

Good idea in theory (except the cruise ship part.) Renovate Alcatraz island and use that.

[@RW-ij1ci]

imagine paying to live in San Francisco... lol

[@blueshade26]

Arrest everyone doing drugs and give them a choice: A. rehab and no charges or B. a trial date. doing drugs doesnt mean youre a bad person, but habitual littering and degrading the environment you share with others merits a wake up call.

[@harrycooper5231]

Why would they change it when Reagan's "War on Drugs" is working exactly as intended? Surely you don't think America, the land of the "free", has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world by accident, or that those incarcerated are disproportionately black?

[@MTMT-wm2dq]

Now nothing can be done, it is rotten so let it be.

[@simplyincorrigible7708]

Prison is expensive.

[@ceasarsaran8573]

@@simplyincorrigible7708 Letting people commit crimes is far more expensive. In fact, no society can afford it.

[@Stephen85]

Opoid rehab is a joke. They just get them hooked on a legal opoid like suboxone or methadone.

[@friscokid9665]

End the sanctuary city policy in san Francisco County in order to arrest the Honduran gangmembers who sell drugs in the streets and allow the police to arrest the drug dealers..

[@friscokid9665]

@CimarronWay Really

[@friscokid9665]

@CimarronWay Been a resident of the city for a 30+ years and this is the worst I seen the city environment since willie brown, Gavin Newsome and Ed Lee left office and the board of supervisors are all corrupt politicians who enriched themselves everyday while the resident of the city suffer maybe the board of supervisors should be recalled from office and replace with people who care about the city.

[@Cyndogg085]

That is exactly what a police officer I know who works the Tenderloin said

[@friscokid9665]

Start a recall of all board of supervisors then maybe they will start doing their job and allow developers to build affordable housing and revoke the sanctuary city policy ASAP!!!

[@klars3207]

The people of SF and the people of CA deserve every bit of this.

[@pako4857]

And you're just shining in your life I'm sure you're at Starbucks right now getting a latte in your loafers driving your Prius...

[@PureBadBreath]

Totally unacceptable to allow a central district of a major city to degrade like this, especially such an iconic city. It's getting to the point now where it is very clear the methods used just aren't working, it's just getting worse. It's turning into NYC of the 80s. Tolerance is generally good for society, tolerance for crime is not as it just creates more victims and perpetrators, and just grows from there on.

[@SlapMehSilly02]

I lived in San Francisco for 9 years. I was homeless, shooting heroin & meth for 6 of those years. Started up in Golden Gate park selling weed at the park entrance shooting heroin. When things became too heated there I relocated to Church and Market area and started shop lifting from stores, and breaking into cars, taking laptops and GPS's. Finally I ended up in the tenderloin barley able to pay for my addiction, which ment I was sick more often then not. Out of those 9 years I spent 6 of them sleeping on the sidewalk. All I had was cardboard to lay on, so that I didn't feel the cold of the cement and a grey scratchy wool blanket to protect me from the wind or rain. I woke up everyday sick, worthless and devastated about my life. I would see people die on a weekly event and all I ever thought was who was there for them at the end. The fear of me dieing alone haunted me day in and day out. My career criminal lifestyle was catching up with me. I managed to rack up 14 shoplifting charges. I knew I was going to jail and eventually with draw would be worse then the sentence itself. Luckily they offered me Drug Diversion. I was sent to a treatment facility in the city called Walden House. I was there for 14 long hard months. It was quite possible one of the hardest things I have ever done. I almost left the first 2 to 3 weeks of being there. Luckily thier were people there that really cared and listened, no matter how crazy I sounded. I got a job working with the homeless for Archdiocese Church in the Tenderloin. They let the homeless sleep in the church during the day even with mass 2x a day. I was there to monitor them, help them with referrals to services and even take some to appointments. The 2½ years that I worked there was the most rewarding job I have ever had and I can honestly say that I miss it. Now 12 years later after leaving the city I am still sober, married, still active in AA/NA with a sponsor and a great group of friend/ support group. I know this whole story was a lot. I wrote all of this for a few reason. Those reasons are to say I actively used heroin for 11 years. I thought I would die on that cement and no one would be there for me in my death. Finally I know when we see the homeless you see them as burden or a eye sore. Just remember that, that person can change. Some it may take a change of environment. Others it just might be someone believes in them. Recovery is a tricky thing. Who knows what it takes for someone to see the other side of the coin but when they finally do there life will change forever.

[@samgibson684]

I'm of the belief that you do what you want.... That said, you also should have been forced into rehab at least 6 YEARS before you finally stopped abusing yourself..... I'm glad you got help

[@rainforme1850]

I wonder why you succeeded and other people are unable to succeed. You must have the will of a wrecking ball. Congratulations to you

[@randallmccoy8581]

Doped out street people are not a "burden". 80% are chronic drug addicts and thieves THEREFORE...a chronic criminal THREAT. Not a blight, not a burden....A DIRECT THREAT TO MY PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY., Do you get that ?? Do you really ?? This is criminal activity supported by MORE criminal activity. Do you get that ?? NOT F*CKING OK EVEN ONCE. Did you ever go back and pay back every innocent person you ever ripped off. ??? Of course you haven't. Nor will you. Therefore...you still owe them. You still have debt on your soul with interest . NOT pardoned yet MR. I worked for many years with an ex car thief who got caught and went to prison for it for several years, only to come out with the DELUSION that he had somehow "repaid" his debt to society or the state or whatever. First off...he didn't steal the states car. It was stolen from ONE PERSON, who worked very hard for it and NO DOUBT needed it for work like we all do. That poor guy is STILL out one car and until it paid back to him IN FULL PLUS INTEREST FOR THE TROUBLE...then MR. thief has paid NOTHING back to ANYONE RELEVANT TO THE THEFT. What's that you say ??? The car owners insurance company covered it ??? MAYBE 1/2 of it. but ....they don't really cover it, They lowball you what they think they can get away with and then they simply push the entire debt off on all their clients and why the hell should we all pay for petty criminals thieving asses as well as the 100 grand it cost to have Buddy incarcerated. Yea...that's right....It costs the state (THEREFORE...the taxpayers) $50,000 per year to incarcerate someone. He did 2 years. He owes the taxpayers one hundred grand and some poor dude one car. He has paid his debt to society MY ASS. Way too many people in this culture excusing away their immoral illegal behavior way too easily for my tolerance. Yea...I'm a hardass. welcome to my world. Sorry not sorry.

[@bpdubb]

yay

[@beckyhepburn7460]

well done you thanks for sharing,

[@jerrydc818]

Okay, needle exchange programs, sanctuary state/city, weak laws and weak on crime policies, cutting police programs, defund the police etc. City officials fight the feds when it doesn’t fit their agenda. Then ask the feds for help when their policies goes out of control.

[@daniellemolnar8380]

I rented an apartment in the Tenderloin when I was in college (it was the only thing I could afford, given I was working part time at a restaurant) I can't even begin to explain what I saw while I lived there. I was at the corner of Hyde and O'Farrell.... I would love to see better processes in place to get folks off the street. I made friends with a few people I would walk past to and from class. They were good people; usually asked me how class was and genuinely watched out for me. I would try to give them left over food when I had it... Not bad people; just sick, addiction is a beast.

[@_indent]

@I Am The Walrus have you ever heard of mental health? You obviously don't have much life experience.

[@patrickglennon7058]

@I Am The Walrus it's a pain killer

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

I lived briefly in the Tenderloin as a punk rock kid in the early 80s. It was the scariest place I've ever been. We would just be walking around and gnarly old biker guys living in vans would want to fight us and stuff.

[@sjordan7085]

Drug addicts will self-regulate if left to their own devices. Stop wasting public money on resuscitating them.

[@joasok3642]

Its too idealistic tbh

[@crypticnomad]

I was stabbed in the back twice in 2014 when I stopped an obviously mentally ill street person from attacking a man in a wheelchair over a bottle of water that belonged to the man in the wheelchair. I went to court and testified against the guy and everything but he got some minor jail sentence. Then a few years later he supposedly stabbed and killed some random lady and somehow beat the charge. Then about 6 months ago he savagely beat another fellow Army vet almost to death with a metal bar. This time they're talking about sending him to some kind of "prevention program", whatever the hell that is. It is an objective fact that beyond a really basic point stiffer jail sentences do not deter crime at scale but it is also an objective fact that if we throw violent ass people like that clown in jail then there will almost for sure be at least a few less victims. While I completely agree with some policies that are lenient on criminals in terms of jail sentences I think the bay area and California in general go way to far with it. Violent criminals shouldn't just have the book thrown at them but be relentlessly beaten with the book.

[@TopGKev]

It’s the California prosecutorial system, they want to reward criminals. In the future you’ll be going to jail for standing up for yourself.

[@walterwhite5674]

This has been going on for years. Voters are responsible for this mess.

[@djienf]

It’s a mindset that San Franciscans can’t escape.

[@evilmonkeyspeaks7801]

That's what happens when the only thing you know how to do is vote Democrat.......

[@declanshannon7458]

yeah those dam drug addict voters are you disable?

[@hazystafford6231]

Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Diane Finstien are a disgrace to let the state they are supposed to represent end up like this. Shameful!

[@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce]

@@evilmonkeyspeaks7801 if you think republicans care about the poor either then I got an oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell you

[@outlander2878]

It's crazy how some of these people were normal, functioning, balanced humans who ended up in a drug spiral that completely wrecked their lives.

[@lHurtYourFeeIings]

They aren't normal. Normal people don't touch that shit.

[@lukejones2929]

Very very few are like that. The majority are mentally ill. Mental illness plus drugs are a terrible combination.

[@doughayward489]

@@lukejones2929 ur right about mental illness they should focus on that and close the dam boarder and cut the dam drugs from coming in

[@SURENITY]

It is a sad story that is too common.

[@nathansamson8215]

Most are just schizo too tbh like 60% and those guys wouldn’t even accept a beer or a joint when I offered on my work break saying it would mess with their schizophrenia

[@ntran74]

San Francisco deserves what they have continuously voted for.

[@outbackeddie]

I agree. It's insanity to elect the same group of flaming Marxist morons and expect a different result.

[@edwardrygiel5178]

Keep voting liberal socialist democrats in office. Remember, "Defund the Police?" SF keeps voting Democrat this is what you as a voter can expect.

[@aidnic901]

san francisco is failing because it is capitalist. this homeless problem and drugs will not solve itself under republicans, as they, and the democrats are both capitalist parties. however, what will solve the problem is socialism, and the democrats aren't socialist.

[@jasonyu72]

how come you didnt interview the district supervisor Haney and the homeless coalition on how they can address these problems not just the mayor? How are they going to combat the drug market if the DA doesnt prosecute? 14:23 i dont know how a safe injection site will solve anything, will city provide the drugs provided and where will the patients stay and how much will this cost the city? do they just go back to the streets if they finish the injection site because that wouldnt solve anything. providing homes for the homeless makes me wonder how do they provide any source of income? to accept them back into society.

[@hapakii]

Haney will say there is no problem.

[@stevenolson1295]

As a homeless native of San Francisco you need a place to stay to get your shit together. I'm not sure you would want to be looking for a full time job when you sleep on the concrete floor and are freezing, hungry, dirty and sick.

[@jamesdesanders5618]

It will never change. Handouts equal homelessness and addiction. The more you give the more they take. Help only goes so far. YOU HAVE TO WANT TO CHANGE!!

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]

So give them a hand up as well as a hand out.

[@garygerard4290]

This is a lost cause - you're wasting your time and my money. There is no hope for these people - they're not worth saving. We are both better served trying to insulate ourselves from them. You've seen the Zombie movies? They're Here.

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]

@@garygerard4290 you should read the numerous success stories from people who lived there. They're in the comments if you look. Never give up on people. Ever.

@@High_Lord_Of_Terra To paraphrase gary, he is a lost cause, you're wasting your time. I know, I don't like giving up on people (having been homeless for a brief period myself), but for people like gary, I don't bother anymore.

[@sego5657]

It's a human problem. Some case workers are too swamped or just looking at the job as a free paycheck- they don't really give a frig. There's too many of the latter. Quotas go to immigrants first. Am too scared to admit the kinds of people who are ignored.

[@blaxican_]

Their like 25 years late 🤦💯💯💯💯

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

The government needs to open more mental hospitals and drug rehab clinics.

[@jimtalbott2894]

I agree.

[@torotoro1014]

I've earned the right to say this after living in San Francisco from 1989 - 2012 at three different times in my life. A city will only be as good as the people who reside in it. In 1989, there were countless affordable eateries throughout the city. By 2012, that downtown area was just EXPENSIVE and DEPRESSING.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@dingusmcgringle9741 Sure, blame a certain race for the problem. That should fix it.

[@jennifercochrane8218]

@@The_Savage_Wombat Um no one's race was brought up in his comment

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@jennifercochrane8218 Arians?

[@torotoro1014]

Trust me, there are TOO MANY rich people who live in STILL beautiful parts of San Francisco. But the AFFORDABLE parts are now completely RUINED in human filth.

[@jennifercochrane8218]

@The Savage Wombat Bay Areans. He meant people that live and make up the Bay area.

[@HuyNguyen-lt4wc]

Democrat's Paradise

[@villiano1]

"we believe that people can change". unfortunately, addiction to the drugs these users are on is next to impossible to break. even if they get clean for some time, 9 out of 10 go back to it. sad but true.

[@daniburke9452]

Ur right 100% right but it can be done. I used fentynal for over 5 years tried rehab and clinics numerous times. Have 5 overdoses I should be dead. But I'm finally clean using a MAT program. I'm on a low dose of subvoxen. I'm able to maintain a full time job and be a productive member in society. Treatment is so easyly accessible now and days. I do all mine thru a clinic online. That's why China should be held more accountable for supplying Mexico with the fentynal that kills our youths

[@LilRedRasta]

@@daniburke9452 happy for you bro

[@rs72098]

This is why we need longer sentences for drug dealers. It is a massively violent crime, and many other crimes are related to drug trafficking.

[@lapx1]

This is why killing is the only option. This is war. We have no problem killing people we at war with. We'll 🤔

[@nunya_bizniz]

@@daniburke9452 the addictive drug you are taking daily to replace the other addictive drug is made by the same drug company that makes all the addictive drugs. They get you addicted to pain killers, then sell another drug to help get off the first drug (which is also addictive) so they make double money.

[@chubbyb5718]

Thank your crooked politicians

[@joecoats8303]

It's about nonprofits getting rich and any of the money that's supposed to be going to these causes is not making it there. All those referrals are nonprofits given the name of a non-profit. Which is the best way of not paying your taxes and laundering money in the United States right now

[@deshaunjackson8188]

You cant fix people who dont want to change without compromising their rights. At this point just lock them up for vagrancy and let them get clean in prison.

[@mzbatonrougebeauty5267]

They would only go to jail for a couple days tops

[@napalmstickylikeglue]

So lock them up because they're poor? Haven't minorities been crying about that for the past few decades?

[@Opeandaway]

@@napalmstickylikeglue and minorities are still crying about being poor. Who cares? if they knew what was best they’d provide a fucking solution. But what do they actually do? They bitch about this and offer nothing but “the city needs to do something!!”

[@bigvito9008]

@@napalmstickylikeglue Poor???? They have plenty of money to spend on illegal drugs.

[@napalmstickylikeglue]

@@bigvito9008 yeah they're poor people who figure out ways to supply their habit.

[@yuebing7]

What the heck are police officers supposed to do when the courts keep letting drug dealers back out on the streets? The soft laws are the problem. Employing more officers won't fix anything.

[@benedictlam7582]

I only visited SF a week ago (the last time I visited was 2007). It was heartbreaking to see how downtown has changed. Market St, the main drag of downtown SF, is now an extension of the Tenderloin. Most of the stores have closed and barely anyone walks there apart from the homeless and/or mentally ill. I remember getting out of the Civic Center BART station with my suitcase thinking I got to get off Market St asap. It's very disconcerting for tourists and I can't imagine what it's like for those who live in downtown SF. One night I got an uber which drove through the Tenderloin and it was absolutely mayhem. I don't know how the city will solve this problem, it's so complex and multi-faceted

[@Ihcdt857jhsrtb]

Everything democrats touch turns to 💩

[@tammysavoie9771]

I'm not a drug addict. I'm 61 and unable to work due to crippling arthritis and spine issues. I live with severe pain and I would be homeless if not for my amazing kids. I don't make enough from disability to survive on my own and I make too much to get any additional assistance. I want my own place so bad. I'm thankful I was able to work for 35 years and raise my children.

[@janetcastellano4141]

I’m sorry your in your place at your age. People don’t release this wasn’t your. Plan either. Hardened hearts from past need to stop. Specially the judging types. Energy is real . Krama sucks.

[@psilocybemusashi]

i don't understand how disability doesn't pay you enough to stay off the streets without help. most likely it is because of the severe shorting of housing that has become a crisis in many places because of illegal immigration primarily. there used to be places that you could rent for 400 per month or less but unfortunately biden has been spreading millions of illegal housing around the country to ensure that we pay more and the elite makes more. they all pretend like its because they care about those illegals. really they care about them. most young girls are raped before they make it across the border. thousands die every year in the dessert trying to cross the border. others who actually make it end up in debt to drug cartels that don't have the option of giving you a negative rating on your credit report so they simply kill you if you don't pay your debts. politicians only care about themselves. never believe anything else unless you want to be a fool.

[@purelica]

God bless your children. May they all be healthy and continue to have great love for you to take care of you. 🙏 💖

[@MrSneaksful]

Why not move to a more affordable place so you can have your own home?

[@DarkEuropa]

@@MrSneaksful Just so simple isn't?

[@kimberlygila]

There are honest working class families with kids living in tenderloin

[@kimberlygila]

But it's very scary and sad for the good people in the tenderloin seeing the drug addicts crime and kids seeing alot while walking to school there. There is police station there so they should patrol more

[@ErikKruse1]

The first minute of this video told me all I need to know. The Tenderloin has had a reputation for decades. It's BEEN in this 'state of emergency' for years. And electing the same party that has done absolutely NOTHING about it during this entire time frame will bring zero change. Good luck, SF. And good luck, California.

[@BladeRunner5505]

You get what you vote for. No sympathy.

[@heyaisdabomb]

That's was a great piece of journalism that is sorely missed today. Not just a headline and a quick story, but true look at the problems, and getting into the problems first hand, not from the place of privilege most of us enjoy this city from. As a white male who lived the first year in the tenderloin, I was offered every drug under the sun multiple times a day. It's not a race thing like this women feels, it's simple they feel everyone could be a customer, so don't miss an opportunity. I soon moved out of the TL and into other neighborhoods where the streets are clean, safe, and neighbors are friendly and reasonable. It's a shame that this is what maybe 10% of the city is like, yet, it's the image SF is being recognized for. Most of the city is clean, safe, welcoming, and beautiful. It's just parts of downtown that look like a war zone.

[@jackhammer7824]

If you had a simple law requiring anyone within 20 ft of any trash or litter to clean it up or get a 150 dollar ticket the city wouldn't be so trashed. If you volunteer for a hour, for cleanup, you get a hotel voucher. If you just kill yourself, your Free of any more problems. It works for the homeless as well as the housed.

[@honey-jo6ru]

Very well said!!! As an SF native for generations it really is a shame to see that this is what the city is known for when there is so much more to it.

[@mplieku101nguyen9]

Overnight ( overdosed ) thoughtfulness … death GOD

[@dannytadashi4235]

Bulllshit. San Francisco has always been a Shithole city since the 60’s and it’s getting worst every decade nothing new hahahahaha lol 😂😂😂😆👍👍👍👍🖕🖕🖕🖕🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👉👉👉💩💩💩💩!!!

[@pamelamorris3148]

Yes, I don't know why she threw race in the conversation when they offer it to anyone they can and often. If they don't think you're a cop they are trying to sell to you. Unfortunately some people are also trapped in their own mind's and love having the victim real estate occupied.

[@pkramerable]

The drug addicts that have descended to living on the street and getting high in public, should be arrested and given a choice, of either a long prison sentence or, a rehabilitation program lasting two full uninterrupted years, in a remotely located (state forest), sober living work camp. Think of it like the 1930s WPA, but instead of battling the Great Depression, it's battling The Great Addiction.

[@TheExecutoriscoolerthanyou]

That’s not a bad idea

[@bumblebee4280]

Two years is not as long as you think, when the two years is finished get them job placements in another city far away from San Francisco, and send each one with a buddy so they don't get lonely and relapse. They shouldn't go back to that city for many more years to come, too triggering. Maybe a ban would protect them.

[@shirleyj6828]

Put them on Alcatraz island and let them build their own utopia.

[@joeyrichardson38]

Z@@bumblebee4280

[@SS-yj2le]

That won’t fix it. San Francisco actually does among the best with drugs. Most of the places with severe drug abuse are the rural.

[@JohnRinNoHo]

I'm old enough to remember when laws were enforced, drunks and drug addicts were jailed or run out of town, today they are given free stuff and services and are referred to as 'homeless' people, giving them a respect that is totally unwarranted.

[@CAC6363]

Was that all a dream or are you over 100? 😩😂. So much crime went unchecked in the last 100 years unless you were black or brown…

[@PInk77W1]

Detroit use to be rich. Then came democrats

[@braydenbaumann4398]

I'm moderate and have lived in CA all my life, but this is when you go too far left and create a societal apathy towards personal responsibility. Our current state government has done nothing to mitigate the cost of living and has simply continued to raise taxes under the guise of making social programs that supposedly "solve" these problems. We need rationality to come back to the not-so-golden state.

[@casterakabadman805]

Good point.. compassion without accountability... isn't really compassion at all. It's a deflection tactic. Everyone's chugging vodka, gulping down xanax and popping Adderall while simultaneously glorifying b l o o d diamonds. That's why they avoid accountability regarding society, addiction, our environment etc depending on which political extreme your dealing with. The left, right and everyone in between are basically overgrown toddlers with no discipline or deductive reasoning. Joke with no punchline but everyone's just too self obsessed to evolve. RESPECT 💯🦾

[@j.thomas7128]

Mitigate the cost of living? Yes, living costs money.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

What is the definition of a conservative? A liberal who has been mugged.

[@trans-octopusspacealien8883]

We take in too many foreigners from other countries. Our population grew largely from mass immigration and illegal entry. Commiefornia is a perfect example of cramming too many people in popular living destinations. Commiefornians voted for this. Only reason they want immigrants to come is because they believe every single immigrant is non-white and it somehow makes "white America" mad. When you keep dumping the world's poor onto your doorstep, well, don't come crying to me when it begins harming your life. Rich white leftietards learned the hard way when the cult of BLM and antifa came to their doorsteps. Look at how many people left mega cities because of the riots. Left-leaning people are the problem in America.

[@rl8571]

Humanity has been around for 10,000 years. If SF thinks they are trying something new that has never been tried in all of this planets history, best of luck.

[@Fahrenheit2030]

Non profits are allocating 65,000 per tent. You tell me - that’s more than the average national income. People are getting rich/living comfortably and letting these people flounder. 65,000 per tent. 600 a month in government payments, tax payer bought foid, tax payer bough drug paraphernalia, etc. etc. etc. 65,000 per tent per one non-profit. Others declined a response - WHICH IS ILLEGAL. A non -profit is required by law to give financial info.

[@davidw8249]

use that dollar sign so people understand. Its actually $60k dollars per tent per homeless. Our city is spending recklessly and its a scam. The city rents a tent for $5k per month= $60k per year... Absolute criminal and we need answers. Homeless gets $620 in cash and $200 in food stamps per month. Crazy

[@Paiadakine]

Make these homeless work for shelter. Everyone else does. Make then pick crops, clean shit up, do something. These folks are a burden to society and they need to work. If they don’t ship them to Mexico. They’ll get no help in mexico.

[@WinstonSmith1997]

I used to live in Caborca SON. It was great 0 homeless people. Mexico was awesome ca. 2005

[@chikpea47]

@Joey Rice here in Seattle they drive around in 60k sprinter vans handing out condoms/needles/toiletries

[@dodieodie498]

Which is why Breed is saying they want federal tax dollars to go into it too. So not just the state, but the nation gets to pay into their high price tag programs. I'd like to hear how much the administrators are getting paid. These failed mismanaged big budget cities asking for federal handouts. And this administration will probably give it to them.

[@franknorman1383]

San Francisco is a Democrat way of life

[@YouBetterPreach]

Look at Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia on youtube (AKA Zombieland). This is what this area will look like if they dont act right away. It's a warzone in Kensington. Cleaning the streets up and moving them from one corner to another wont do it.

[@jasonsmith1143]

I have lived at 57 Taylor Street and 340 Eddy Street from 1980 until 1990s and it was not that bad what a difference 2020 2021 2022

[@JamminClemmons]

* *Jason Smith,* * I was stationed in the Navy for 4.5 years on the SF Bay area (Alameda, which is directly across the bay). In the 1980's, Oakland was the city to worry about. Hell, San Fran was pretty clean and even the Chinese, SOHO area was safe. I'd hate to go back now. Do you still live anywhere around the Bay?

[@bookreport101]

A city I once called home, and is very dear to my heart. It is sad that I see no hope for the city anymore.

[@vulpsturm]

Same way I feel about Seattle. I lived their back in the 90s, now? Thanks to "progressive" policies? I don't even want to see the dump its become.

[@zebageba]

Do you still vote for this crap?

[@nneichan9353]

I used to walk in the tenderloin without problems. It is sad to see how awful things are.

[@c.t.4837]

Same

[@nealbaker2132]

Biden let in 5 million people cross the border, scoot over.

[@musashi-san____1409]

This is beautiful. You get what you vote for.

[@a-love-supremist]

We voted for Trump and got 4 years of corruption, wasted resources, and a pandemic.

[@Bloodfart22]

what have u contributed besides reused snarky remarks?

[@musashi-san____1409]

@@a-love-supremist Federal, and State is rigged by the Illuminati. You still have somewhat of a chance at the local level.

[@tjmiller6159]

Hahaha Haha hahaha haha

[@tjmiller6159]

@@a-love-supremist you voted for Trump ?? Good for you let's do it again in 2024

[@EM-sm9fo]

I lived with a friend in the Tenderloin briefly around June / July 2016 whilst visiting from Australia. It was quite shocking to see some of the things that went on around the area - the homelessness, old ladies with plastic bottle trolleys, dogs and people defecating everywhere and anywhere in the street, even people openly banging each other at a bus stop in broad daylight whilst high or drunk on something. Fortunately, I never felt 'unsafe' - but wow, this report makes it look like it's much worse now.

[@abnormallynormal8823]

Hey! That’s the year I got chased down the street by a crackhead in the tenderloin after doing the lighting for a one art gallery in an alleyway. Good times

[@ramadeanchannel5597]

The "banging" gets me 😂😂😂

[@secrets.295]

You wont even see this level of crap in plenty of 3rd world countries. And I am not exaggerating when I say that

[@sidhaunt]

@@secrets.295 that's American freedom bro. I wish we could bang everywhere 🤣🤣. Just kidding.

[@ChairYogaForTheAgeless]

@@secrets.295 This should be on the news every time we talk about brining in illegal immigrants. We can not even take care of the people who are already here.

[@theresathompson4367]

America...is too late on inclusion and diversity acceptance. The majority of America is non-white culturally mixed people from many countries. The Country has been going down for a long time because of its history of bullying, oppression, and refusal to acknowledge its wrongs. Media-driven fear and increased racism have populated social media. White flight has been apparent for years and the Cities have been nearly abandoned and left to the low-income and oppressed people who have no clue on how to sustain a City and don't have time to care because they are working their as...s off to pay bills and send money to take care of their families in the countries they came from. Everyone doing whatever they have to do to get out of the City and move to the suburbs because the Cities are falling apart. There are thousands of abandoned cities and towns across the U.S., trash is all over the City streets and graffiti is all over the walls, buildings, trains, bridges, and abandoned buildings. The homeless have taken over the streets and drug addicts walking like "zombies." The smash-and-grab robberies are at their highest. Stores all across the U.S. are locking up most of their merchandise even toothpaste and shampoo are locked up. On the news a few days ago they showed smash-and-grab robberies and it was all races running out of the stores with high-end items not just black and brown people it was whites as well. Many people have migrated to the U.S. but never integrated themselves as their culture and traditions clash with authority and the systems in the U.S. I have traveled all across the U.S. and to China as well as the U.K. I want to tell you their major cities are not falling apart. Coming back to the U.S. it looks like a 3rd world country. There are major cities throughout African Countries that look like paradises compared to the U.S. If you look at Nigeria's developments with China as a partner you would be ashamed of how the U.S. cities are looking. People all over the world are questioning why the U.S. sends billions out of the Country while falling apart. I work in higher education and students at colleges and universities have stated that they don't even feel like voting because they feel they don't have a voice and a lot are studying for their MBAs. The critical race theory didn't work and now they are promoting grant-based diversity, inclusion, and social justice projects to try to understand why people feel the way they do are act the way they act. College and university students have been encouraged to apply for food stamps. The republican are trying their hardest to get the black and brown voters. I can talk all day so let me stop. If the U.S. is going to try to save itself a government overhaul is needed. I left California because I was disgusted with the cities falling apart. When I left homeless in Los Angeles and San Francisco were sleeping on the sides of the freeway and under the bridges and crime was at their highest. Now it has spread to Seattle and to think they used to criticize Chicago. Well, I did say I would stop because I could talk all day. I am an African American woman who grew up in the 70's in California and I had a good childhood. My father served the Country in the Army and I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. I am sad about how America is looking right now.

[@RUSSIANREVIEW2010]

When you give them federal funded Crack pipes what do you expect?

[@xesxblackarrow7912]

“We need help from the feds, incentives to add more officers.” In July 31, 2020 London Breed announced she would cut $120 million in budgets. Go figure