<story><title>Yes, it&apos;s OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that &amp;quot;impact the root causes of crime&amp;quot; and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the &amp;quot;root problem of why people choose to commit crime&amp;quot; by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal. Poor people, immigrants, the downtrodden all disproportionately benefit from tough on crime policies because they are the people for whom have the least resources to isolate themselves from the chaos and antisocial behaviors of the worst among us. Its not a white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles to get to school, its the poor immigrant kids in the tenderloin who need to deal with this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yes, it&apos;s OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus0x62</author><text>The last time I was in San Francisco was January of 2020 - I was staying near the convention center and I was surprised by how open the drug use had become.  I’d been traveling the city off and on for around 20 years, and while you could always find someone doing drugs if you went looking, I wasn’t used to seeing groups of people huddled on the sidewalk openly injecting what I imagine was heroin and&amp;#x2F;or fentanyl.  Nobody seemed to mind.  I also saw a guy who was so out of his mind on something, leaning up against a mailbox, that it took him several seconds to realize his pants had fallen down and several more to do something about it.  This gentleman was not wearing any underwear.  Again, it didn’t seem to shock or bother any of the numerous people walking by, some of them with small children.  It was very, very strange.</text></comment>