Tenderloin residents sue SF, saying it's using neighborhood as containment zone for drugs, violence

Two hotels and several residents of San Francisco's troubled Tenderloin district sued the city on Thursday, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff. abc7ne.ws/3TAKmNt
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[@jinniroe5002]

Please make it a class action lawsuit!

[@drewbryant5171]

Love it! they should sue. The mayor and the city have done nothing, but they continue to say that it is improving.

[@redneckReno]

where do i sign up to join the lawsuit?

[@royt3462]

I want to sign up as well!

[@davidwright873]

Amen!!

[@StephenDavis-vh4oc]

What San Francisco has done to the Tenderloin is disgusting. They would never do this to West Portal or St Francis Woods and that is why it is just wrong.

[@jayo9750]

The reason the rest of sf dosent have those problems is because of the containment. Would u rather avoid one area or all?

[@indianatarzan8001]

@@jayo9750 His argument is to not have ANY area turn into Tenderloin, not to spread Tenderloin out to other areas.

[@SpartacusColo]

SF has done this to SF.

[@royt3462]

Those drug users have the audacity to conduct their business right in front of innocent young children! The park where these kids play is completely infested with drug addicts and dealers!

[@GP-nr2fm]

I am surprised by the residents' enduring an unsanitary and unsafe living environment for so long.

[@bert1913]

I don't blame the Santa Clara 49ers for moving 50 miles away to get away from that dumpster fire

[@jasonsmith1143]

Nice!! people are still willing to pay millions for a property in SF.

[@DemPilafian]

Most areas in SF are really nice and the quality of life is very high, but the bad areas are really, really bad. We are talking sci-fi dystopian bad.

[@liberty-matrix]

The best way for SF leaders to tackle their crime epidemic is to resign for promoting lenient sentencing and de-funding the police.

[@rabblelevin6923]

The sidewalk is not an apartment. Ditto for city parks. People cannot be allowed to live on a city sidewalk.

[@DemPilafian]

💯

[@DemPilafian]

@@MiMiiViVi Offer assistance, treatment, and shelter. If refused then the "offer" becomes compulsory.

[@jujub4553]

Sue the mayor too. Can people having to visit or enter the city join too

[@moon3173]

encampment should be illegal

[@DemPilafian]

Exactly. Society should be compassionate and helpful, but at the end of the day sidewalks are public spaces. Nobody has a right to steal the sidewalk and use it for camping.

[@DemPilafian]

@@MiMiiViVi Offer assistance, treatment, and shelter. If refused then the "offer" becomes compulsory. Also, thanks for pointing out that those of us with common sense are geniuses.

[@soolly357]

I came to the US in 1998 to SF. The tenderloin has gotten worse. Since the 90s.

[@KN-eh2fh]

drug use should be criminalized to begin with.

[@JasonWingate-nl7jd]

It’s only going to get worse until new laws are passed and enforced.

[@jerrymarasco8878]

Hell, just enforce the laws already on the books would be nice.

[@jinniroe5002]

Enforced

[@7318ify]

Passing new laws? Sure. Actually enforcing them? Get outta here😂

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

Why do you need new laws? Im pretty sure theres already laws about drug dealing and drug use.. Nobody is enforcing anything is the problem.

[@DemPilafian]

CA Prop #1

[@khiewuntjie3028]

Good it’s about time!

[@user-xc4uq3cr4b]

This is the true America

[@malin7919]

A small correction.. Joe Biden America

[@mult336]

America beat the shit out of you years ago.....

[@marakima]

TL residents should start a free bussing program to move the homeless and drug users to Pacific Heights.

[@jeffw8218]

Yeah because that’s how money works. Poor residents should pay for bus tickets for homeless drug addicts?? What?? 😂😂

[@RayNLA]

Hamsterdam! -The Wire

[@marvinshenk]

I lived in the Tenderloin 25 years ago. I used to go to and from my apartment almost worry free at all times day or night. The people running SF have ruined that city over the years. It's sad. I've lived in Los Angeles since 2002, and haven't been back to SF, and I have no desire to ever go back. I consider it a dead city for me. I had a lot of good times in SF. There were a lot of music venues and affordable places to eat everywhere. The bus system was great, and very little violence. They had excellent taquerias, chinese food, vietnamese food, Italian food. It was a great city. It's ruined now.

[@jinniroe5002]

Good! We all need sue every supervisor and Breed!

[@jayo9750]

Why. Tenderloin has always been like that for decades why is it their problem

[@chasingsunsets87]

Tenderloin has always been the redlight district. Who the hell are these transplants

[@13Liberty50]

really? if you need an answer, illegals and from wash state and oregon

[@mixedhairless]

🙏🏼

[@toothlessseer3153]

I remember back in the early 90s, there were only massage parlors and strip joints and Asian hole-in-the-wall restaurants. _Today it looks like the apocalypse (with half-dead junkies lying everywhere)_

[@jinniroe5002]

Are you saying that this is ok? Hoe w ignorant can you get? I bet you live in a very nice area.

[@Octaviamorris77]

@@13Liberty50lol Oregon and wash state? SF has always been this way the tenderloin is a small slice of hell.

[@l.carlossimental6096]

L.A. needs to do the same for Skid Row and downtown.

[@indianatarzan8001]

They would go through the trouble of filing the lawsuit rather than just voting in sane people. The priorities are just so screwed w/ these people.

[@lofowens]

Some individuals and businesses can't magically exert personal control the outcome of an election, but they can bring a lawsuit.

[@Evernia6181]

Yes! I have friends there, and the area is uninhabitable

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

You can stand on Jones St at Boeddecker Park and look across the street and see a line of drug use and then look over to the intersection to the left @ Eddy and Jones and its appalling - the Tenderloin police station right there less than 100 ft SMH

[@Goodguy1ful]

At some point cities challenged with the social ill of the nation and looking for short-term easy solutions come to conclude that they can either contain such chaos in a given area... or have the chaos be spread out across the city ....or they can go about the harder work of really trying t deal with the cause of the issue and not just the symptoms

[@eliara-thevoice8430]

Build sober housing. Make mental institutions great again. Help people detox. Help them regain their sanity (if possible) and help them find gainful employment.

[@leowashington8991]

What took them so Long to Sue the City, They should have done that long time ago, Tenderlion is a Disgusting Area, Homeless Shooting Drugs While Little Children are Passing by on the way to their School

[@jayo9750]

Its a city. Its always gonna have that. Its contained in the TL so it dosent spread all over the city.

[@Rickets1911]

They should just move to Prime Rib

[@mike-me7om]

The drugs, crime and homelessness just add character to the community. It makes life exciting there.

[@Truckngirl]

I lived in SF in the mid 70's. The Tenderloin was full of drug addicts and hookers then. The police kept them there. What's different now?

[@davidwright873]

People are waking up. Rents are up. People whom normally would not live there now live there and so with that, a bit of civility would be nice.

[@defenderofdemocracy2231]

How can you possibly prosecute those

[@kennydude7971]

Its horrible, no more tourists leaving bags and electronics for me to steal. Last week, I had to break 15 car windows to find some beer money. Its almost not worth it anymore.

[@oldasrocks9121]

Randy Shaw built the present Tenderloin

[@rbass7674]

Well, yeah. It’s been like that forever.

[@jessebfly]

Just traveled to Boston MA. Amazingly clean, safe, and no vagrancy, no tents on sidewalks, no crap on sidewalks, no needles on sidewalks, and no fentanyl zombies. SF is a sewer

[@soolly357]

BS. Boston is even worse. Have you been around Boston?

[@TOMVUTHEPIMP]

Did you even leave the airport?

[@jessebfly]

@@soolly357 I was just there but admittedly I was around the north end and Beacon hill and downtown areas. Through all they were very clean, safe, and no homeless tents etc.. I'm sure there's problem areas. But in SF it's crap everywhere. Some better than others but it's f'd up. SF government and Mayor Breed are absolutely terrible.

[@simi72100]

I pray the lawsuit wins..sf has become a joke.

[@jeffreyb8770]

Its about time the Tenderloin rose up!

[@peterbedford2610]

Can't get prop 1 facilities built fast enough.

[@lesliewilliams9838]

It's about time

[@user-mw3zs8hm8b]

Mayor says “ We are doing all we can to reduce…”. Sure, sure, sure

[@Super_Flea]

Tolerance is what San Francisco is all about peace & love man .

[@eldebtor6973]

this is news to me. never heard of this before.

[@nobukazumikami5466]

Do not call it Tenderloin. Call it SF City Hall campus.

[@User-54631]

In economics it’s called an economic doom loop.

[@bstravel-em6hf]

These residents vote for these leaders and then are surprised by what their leaders deliver. 🤣

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Get her out. She is the problem.

[@lunamicin2248]

But why???? the city needs that containment zone, stay away from my neighborhood please :( I love Mayor Breed for containing them in Tenderloin instead of letting them wandering around the city. Please please make Tenderloin stay the same with safe injection site, etc. My uncle was out of work from 3 years, but now he has managed to secure million dollar contracts with the safe injection sites, please he really need a third mansion in Florida.

[@sheenapatel6188]

Get all the government out and vote for someone who cares about the homeless and SF people.Just letting people waste their selves on the streets is not going to solve anything. Pick the homeless up and help them get jobs, get sober and if they don’t have strong punishment.

[@rainbow1021]

Breed make it sounds like she did a lot. She’s not doing anything until this year.

[@dougguinn7699]

Breed is useless.

[@donrHu]

Why dont they move in front city hall or mayor home? Mayor just replies same yada yada.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

You have to smoke weed or Hash walking down the streets there to cover the smell of pee pee and poo poo

[@redacted6650]

Maybe stop the infringement on the Second Amendment and this will be drastically reduced!

[@j.t.5826]

The politicians continued to lie and nothing done. Hope the people take back the city one day. SF was a beautiful city

[@kylesuperbaby9616]

The Tenderloin has been SF’s Red Light District for almost 200 years

[@antoniorios3910]

200 years, Really... I guess it was different with the Mexicans and Indigenous here... Wasn't one of the Islands supposed to be given back to the Native Indigenous... Of course, the Govt would never give it back.... Bunch of Liars and Criminals.. They make up Bullshit lies to not give it back.... Look at Mountain view. The Airforce base should be given back.... Anything MIlitary, which is closed up, is supposed to go back to the Native Indigenous...

[@victormihai3929]

North Dakota, or somewhere similar with plenty of space. Put the migrants to work building mass shelters. Provide housing for all the 'unhoused' in one location. Or turn them into Alpo and send as humanitarian aid to Gaza and Haiti.

[@seadweller386]

Come on. The TL was always bad. Don’t forget to sue your clown supervisors.

[@ismjay5143]

like Chapelle said"ain’t nothing tender about that mf"😂

[@michaelscarn4133]

Stop paying taxes and sue the city, sue the leaders of your city

[@ottobthomas6254]

Why are you suing, you voted in the people that allowed us to happen so maybe sue yourselves

[@susangeiderman5272]

California, please keep Newsom in your state. You voted him in. You respect him, you watch what he does. Don't let him leave your state. Please put him under lock and key. Tell him he's got COVID whatever it takes. But don't put that kind of distraction. You allowed in your state to come to the country. Keep your mess at home

[@MMCat7732]

Should sue the useless mayor.

[@DemPilafian]

When face tattoo guy doesn't feel safe, you know you got problems!

[@srikanth007spl]

May be vote differently next time

[@ICallItAsItIs]

I miss the days when news reporters didn't have accents.

[@lunamicin2248]

I miss the days when news reporters are white, blonde, pretty and delightful to watch.

[@SpartacusColo]

Normally, I would be all for this sort of thing (suing the government for flagrant incompetence), but SF has been voting for this fate for decades. At this point, they deserve the s-hole they've created for themselves.

[@user-nu3ih9cc1h]

That will raise their own taxes,good. Why should the rent protesters be subjected to domestic abuse and family suicides? The debtless should be filing lawsuits on those in debt to foreign equity firms.

[@BayArea-vg7ox]

If they win they will take the money and leave. Don’t let them win S.F they will take your money and leave

[@giftedgreen2152]

Do you think this happens in Utah?

[@NicholasLi10]

These people want fast results when that is unrealistic

[@williamryan9195]

I have posted multiple times and had my comments censored and removed for mentioning the same thoughts on what is being sponsored by the city leadership and donors who direct the action of those living and participating in the hellscape they created in the TL.Glad the City is being sued and the real reasons of this problem put under the light.

[@SmokedSalmon12]

Forced labor camp for all the homeless not contributing to society

[@TheViewTube4U]

It’s called Skidrow duh LA has the same containment zone also.

[@tototita413]

and tenderloin do pay a lots of taxes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelwells7348]

~ I think I saw Lauren Boebarts son on the Sidewalk...

[@melascension494]

Better late than never, I guess…

[@audenharper3014]

City leaders have been watch The Wire, it's Hamsterdam!

[@propblast82nd]

Oh well, at least it’s a richly diverse and highly progressive Democrat community ❤

[@Octaviamorris77]

Melvin looks like the problem and why does the reporter sound weird?

[@tclynn10]

SF is a lost cause

[@user-np1st3ed2k]

Vote Breed Out

[@BayArea-vg7ox]

You people don’t understand. Is not the city!!!!!!!!!!!! Is ( Biden) and ( Gavin Newsome) sue them.

[@tototita413]

it is about time geeeeeeeeeeeeeee it is a nightmare nowI can not go to to my fevorite Viet restaurants and London she is talk ONLY !!!!!!

[@SubMeISubYouu]

When rent are out of control what do you expect? Not all homeless are drug users

[@patrickh9937]

You got exactly what you voted for.

[@kaichen7907]

I wonder how many of those tenderloin homeless is actually from California? I agree with the previous comment that you get what you vote for.

[@swiftassociates]

Trying the Hamsterdam tactic

[@mixedhairless]

How many of these unfortunate people are native to the area vs how many have been bused from Red states…..San Francisco has always been a transitional city, however this is hyper fueled by political gains..

[@billmM3605]

I suppose your governor saying "California will accept the worlds migrants and homeless" has nothing to do with it?

[@saneepeopleonly]

Funny. I always saw SF as a containment zone for the peninsula, which is why I support their progressive policies. Keep the societal ills in one place.

[@13Liberty50]

you all voted for this

[@crazyjay640]

Sf is a Joke

[@anonymousmc7727]

They voted Democrat 😂don’t complain now😂

[@HAIL_ATLANTIS]

Drugs we have a right to , doctors should be prescribing it! But violence is unacceptable.... San Fran needs to adopt its own medical board

[@robertkoth4022]

Democrat politics on display and how can a state be almost 80 billion dollars in debt???

[@kuojeff3962]

Third world country

[@ThisHandle444]

Dont ever bring your date around here. Someone might bust out a pipe, and you might get your feelings hurt. Though, your girl might-could get a good laugh and a kick. 😂😆😄🙂😐🤔🙄😶😔😢😭

[@bradmoyer9737]

A simple proven solution that works in under a month, establish a permeant APEC center 🤷🏼

[@whitestrat69]

Vote blue, this will be waiting for you.

[@kenchow1142]

Don't worry. London Breed got this

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

London Breed only cares about votes.

[@user-np1st3ed2k]

Stop lying, she's had 6 years and has done nothing good for the City.

[@lizettewanzer8650]

HA!

[@heidi4132]

Hard to believe this is the USA! MAGA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@smokeymoe842]

Vote blue no matter who! How's that going for you? Why's it smell like poo?😂