Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station

I do agree that the political leadership has squandered a fortune, but if there is a root cause, it ultimately comes down to the voters. It is the voters who repeatedly vote for the same leaders who implement the same policies emphasizing the same values with the same outcomes over and over. And when confronted with those problems, the response from voters is to shame dissenting voices for a lack of empathy instead of recognizing the reality around them and applying common sense. SF shows problems on almost every facet of city governance from businesses unable to set up shop ( [link] ) to feces on the streets ( [link] ) to BART subway stations that are open drug markets ( [this video] ) to mismanagement of massive budgets ( [link] ) to rampant property crime ( [link] ) to the city worsening the used needles problem ( [link] )... I could go on, but if I had to pick a few basic things that are broken and need attention: - Unequal enforcement of the law. Residents who follow the rules and care about their city are subject to the law. If they break the law, for instance by littering or not paying for parking or not being properly permitted for something, they'll be subject to fines or other penalties. But drug addicted homeless vagrants can break every last law with impunity, and face no consequence for it. - Incredible bloat in governance, with massive public agencies that are really just job creation schemes for those who are looking to lazily coast through a 'career'. We see the sa