Tax the dealers 75% of their income. Enforce it, DSA Dean, you love the idea of taxing, so do it where it will really reap the $$$ and maybe even drive the dealers away.
Of course, said tongue-in-cheek, but really, WTF, how long will SF allow this to continue? #Never Preston.
I'm glad that was sarcasm. The fact is that the reason we have this problem is due to the huge size of the demand. A lot has to change in order to make these problems go away. And none of the things that need to change are things the Mayor and Stupidvisors support.
We elect judges with no idea who they are, and what their records are. Then we complain when they let violent people out on bail or with ankle bracelets they proceed to cut off. What's the charge for cutting off or otherwise removing or damaging an ankle bracelet? Why not make them neck chokers instead?
Thank you for your reporting on this issue, Erica, Dean Preston needs to answer for this and I will quiz him at the Town Hall on Wednesday at Ms. Doreen's Park Library.
Mr. Richard Parina - based on Sups. Preston and Walton voting down additional SFPD funding, I'm guessing his response is - we're doing all we can. Not funny, not a joke, just a disgusting mess that voters voted for.
One possible longer-term solution is to rid ourselves of district voting for supervisors. We are ONE city, and the factionalising of our neighborhoods has partially helped to engender this mess we are in. Also, we must continue to build solid, unrelenting resistance to the destruction that City Hall has wrought. We took down Chesa, we took down the pathetic school board members, so we can keep moving in the direction of sane, balanced governance and demand from DSA Dean that he (and his board colleagues) respond or face removal. His (their) negligence is dangerous and destructive. It's on us to build our coalition.
Alternatively, pursuing deportation policies would also spark a chain reaction which cuts the majority of drugs which are available. This is what happens when crime is legal with magnet states and safe haven policies. There is no line anymore, and therefore no real rule of law. My vote is for deportation, because otherwise no matter how much effort and energy is placed into cleaning these areas up, they'll just sprout up elsewhere or right in the same area all over again. Perhaps if Americans were not competing with people here illegally from around the world for jobs, or in many cases, even here legally through these quasi migration programs. Stop subsidizing the behavior with taxpayer money. How long would these places last if there were no state funded welfare and subsidy programs? This is what you vote for when you vote for progressive policies, expansion of government, and more welfare programs. The issue is not limited to red/blue left/right. People need to get serious about shrinking government and drawing clear lines what is legal and what is illegal. Roll everything back 20 years, things will get better.
Do you think drug users intentionally overdose and kill themselves? When the Dutch started giving pharmaceutical quality heroin to addicts their overdose rate went to zero.
We need better rehab too. For sure, the kind with wraparound services.
Throwing drug addicts in jail doesn’t work. It didn’t work before and it won’t work now.
The question is do you want to save lives or just try and control them.
This night time open drug market is where North America is heading. It will be like China in the early 20th century before the communists gained power.
Until the upper-class kids become addicted in large enough numbers to frighten the rich, not much will change.
Mr. Holland Marshall - There is enough Fentanyl in the US right now to worry anyone with the brains to be worried. My only Q is are rich people including politicians making money from it to, or is it strictly the foreign cartels? I'm sure the local gangs are controlling what happens in their areas.
Most of San Francisco seems oblivious to all of this, the associated crime, and human slavery. All they seem to care about is their virtue signaling of "sanctuary city!"
Tax the dealers 75% of their income. Enforce it, DSA Dean, you love the idea of taxing, so do it where it will really reap the $$$ and maybe even drive the dealers away.
Of course, said tongue-in-cheek, but really, WTF, how long will SF allow this to continue? #Never Preston.
I'm glad that was sarcasm. The fact is that the reason we have this problem is due to the huge size of the demand. A lot has to change in order to make these problems go away. And none of the things that need to change are things the Mayor and Stupidvisors support.
We elect judges with no idea who they are, and what their records are. Then we complain when they let violent people out on bail or with ankle bracelets they proceed to cut off. What's the charge for cutting off or otherwise removing or damaging an ankle bracelet? Why not make them neck chokers instead?
Thank you for your reporting on this issue, Erica, Dean Preston needs to answer for this and I will quiz him at the Town Hall on Wednesday at Ms. Doreen's Park Library.
Mr. Richard Parina - based on Sups. Preston and Walton voting down additional SFPD funding, I'm guessing his response is - we're doing all we can. Not funny, not a joke, just a disgusting mess that voters voted for.
One possible longer-term solution is to rid ourselves of district voting for supervisors. We are ONE city, and the factionalising of our neighborhoods has partially helped to engender this mess we are in. Also, we must continue to build solid, unrelenting resistance to the destruction that City Hall has wrought. We took down Chesa, we took down the pathetic school board members, so we can keep moving in the direction of sane, balanced governance and demand from DSA Dean that he (and his board colleagues) respond or face removal. His (their) negligence is dangerous and destructive. It's on us to build our coalition.
Alternatively, pursuing deportation policies would also spark a chain reaction which cuts the majority of drugs which are available. This is what happens when crime is legal with magnet states and safe haven policies. There is no line anymore, and therefore no real rule of law. My vote is for deportation, because otherwise no matter how much effort and energy is placed into cleaning these areas up, they'll just sprout up elsewhere or right in the same area all over again. Perhaps if Americans were not competing with people here illegally from around the world for jobs, or in many cases, even here legally through these quasi migration programs. Stop subsidizing the behavior with taxpayer money. How long would these places last if there were no state funded welfare and subsidy programs? This is what you vote for when you vote for progressive policies, expansion of government, and more welfare programs. The issue is not limited to red/blue left/right. People need to get serious about shrinking government and drawing clear lines what is legal and what is illegal. Roll everything back 20 years, things will get better.
Legalize it.
Do you think drug users intentionally overdose and kill themselves? When the Dutch started giving pharmaceutical quality heroin to addicts their overdose rate went to zero.
We need better rehab too. For sure, the kind with wraparound services.
Throwing drug addicts in jail doesn’t work. It didn’t work before and it won’t work now.
The question is do you want to save lives or just try and control them.
This night time open drug market is where North America is heading. It will be like China in the early 20th century before the communists gained power.
Until the upper-class kids become addicted in large enough numbers to frighten the rich, not much will change.
Mr. Holland Marshall - There is enough Fentanyl in the US right now to worry anyone with the brains to be worried. My only Q is are rich people including politicians making money from it to, or is it strictly the foreign cartels? I'm sure the local gangs are controlling what happens in their areas.
Most of San Francisco seems oblivious to all of this, the associated crime, and human slavery. All they seem to care about is their virtue signaling of "sanctuary city!"