Are you kidding me ?  Respect for the counter-culture ?  How much did it cost the taxpayers last year for all the spice related rides to the hospital ? Any home or business that receives over x amount of calls for police assistance is charged . Why isn't the muni charging Beans and Francis for all the calls they make ?  They have enabled the problems at their location , so they should be billed like everyone else.  Imagine for a moment that these two places on third avenue were shut down. Would we see anyone hanging out there creating all the related problems ?  Of course not .  If we shut down homeless camps before they got built , would all those related problems exist ?  Of course not .  If you feed bears , they keep coming back .  You enable the street homeless by feeding them---in essence rewarding them for their behavior--and you have the situation we have today . The problems are growing . We must stop the enablers to have any hope of things improving.