Thread by @stuz5000

The building I left in SF recently got 24h guards and cameras after the HOA found that unevictable meth dealers rented a home and refused an offer of $15k to leave after being $30k behind on their rent. A lady has left her home in the building to live in an AirBnB, feeling unsafe

https://twitter.com/SusanDReynolds/status/1429595441490849792

License plates were getting switched around in the garage, to cars presumably to be used for more crime. The dealer’s users weren't leaving, attempting breakins into homes, stealing packages, and sleeping in garage storage units.
What a fucking mess SF has built.

A year ago SF VCs we're joking on Twitter that on-demand security guards will be the next big thing. Here we are with private security in low-end buildings with less than 20 units and city officials absurdly defending the case for 24h guarded public bathrooms at $1700 per day ea.

We're told that the path out of this is to recognize our privilege and acknowledge that the unrecognized victims here are the criminals, and their families
That, and #CrimeIsDown, the DA tells us.

(with some notable exceptions that he skirts around)

https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1357724651380609025

Local-consequences agnostic crime policy will no doubt increase inequity and segregation in SF as those who can afford security will have it, and the children of those who can't continue to be killed for minding the own business on the own street.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/08/02/fam…

Here is SF's police commissioner John Hamasaki arguing the case for kids to have guns.
Complain about crime in SF on your way out of the city, feel violated after a break-in, and Hamasaki will be sure to tell your mind, and that its SF’s $14 salads that were your problem.

https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1421989472611143681

I recently closed down my startup. I didn't seriously consider work in SF- we left for the burbs more than a year ago. We gave SF a fair shake. We overlooked my wife being assaulted with a shoe days before giving birth...

We watched our neighbor be stretchered away in an ambulance - punched in the head in our garage by a thief. He recovered from a concussion, but moved back East a short time later.

We rationalized the evidence of mothers we know also getting punched in the head while they walked with their children, as also unlikely happenings. They also left.

We stayed, and tried to extend our community as 11 other families fled SF for the love of their children. We engaged in civics - spoke at city meetings, with @MattHaneySF, in support of, for the love of God, at least one good school please. (approved, still missing)

Needles on the preschool steps, on the beach... pffft... teaching opportunities.
Perhaps it was the stolen car that hit a hydrant and flooded our home, nearly killing my family, that was the end of rationalizing the dangers of existing in SF.

After 20 years in the Bay Area, most of it in SF, we left CA completely 3 weeks ago.

Good luck, SF. In places,you are beautiful. Be kind to each other.

After all, you are all in this together.

Outside the building’s front door today - sent by a neighbor. He still has a kid and fighting hard for her.
All the children in our building have left. We were the last.

You might want think that this a consequence of “the failed war on drugs”. The data shows that CA, and SF in particular, just gave up, unwinding decades of improvements to throw its city onto an ideological bonfire.

https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1404872498181672962

“Something something national drug epidemic”. This narrative overlooks that SF’s overdose hockey stick of deaths arrived some years before fentanyl exploded in SF.
Neither the USA, CA, nor NYC has seen such a vertical climb in deaths.
2020: 720+ OD deaths in SF. A mile of corpse.

https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1404872502250070021

While SF’s leadership fights with residents and the federal government to install safe injection sites to allow people to use drugs more safely, what’s SF’s excuse for not providing, and incentiving drug treatment? Particularly outpatient treatment.

https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1400862824214106115

SF refuses to:
- incentivize and provide opioid treatment
- enforce consequences for drug dealing

Instead it has:
- no incentives/access to treatment
- no consequences for drug dealing

No amount of safe injection sites will reduce drug use and addiction in San Francisco.

“Opioids are fine and safe if you just follow these simple steps.”
My son was too yound read, but I'd like you to imagine raising a 13 year old where this 12 foot tall city-paid-for propaganda is outside your door.
Where are the deaths, mental illness and treatment discussed?
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Dealers are funnelled to drug court (designed for users), released and dealing again, and arrested again the same day.

Rinse. Repeat.

2020: Out of 6300+ felony arrests, the DA describes 25% of those as drug related and “a distraction”, and brought 0 dealers to trial.
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https://twitter.com/sfpdinvestigate/status/1428223754329460747

A recent scene around a playground (preschool?) in my old neighborhood.
A gun recovered.
Someone being stretched away (shot?).
Tents line the playground.
Close to the TL and mission - you can be sure there are drugs.
A salt-grain sized flake of fentanyl can kill a toddler.

https://twitter.com/bettersoma/status/1430612920619077632