KPIX Special Report: San Francisco's Tenderloin - A State of Emergency
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- The state of emergency that San Francisco mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there. Wilson Walker reports. (3-6-22)
I was homeless in San Francisco for 5 years. Sleeping in doorways, getting high in alleyways, shoplifting, and being an all around piece of garbage. I got so sick of it all that I disassociated from everyone I knew and quit using drugs. For like 6 weeks I sat by myself at the park or at union square just reading books I found in the streets. I was feeling so alone and finally thinking a bit more clearly so I decided to try rehab instead. I have been sober for over 3 years now, but I don't think I would be able to say that if I hadn't moved away soon after I got sober. I am so thankful for the amazing people who helped me along the way. Project Homeless Connect, Project Open Hand, Baker Places, Ward 86... They are ANGELS!
Amazing! So happy for you.
Good for you - never forget though that it was YOU who decided to go straight, You who did the things needed and it is YOU that you need to remain faithful to. If you ever are tempted to do drugs or revisit that kinda enviroment again remember that your 'inner man' or Id got you the hell outta that world, and you are too intelligent to be a drug addict again !
The fix is simple there are no homeless in China at all so hire the Chinese government to run America for say 10 years while your politicians take a well deserved break from running the country into the ground. What to pay the Chinese government simple they get to fully control the spending and taxation cutting out the waste and corruption and every year they get to keep what they save the taxpayer.
@@laurencekelly5081 China most certainly has homeless. Where are you getting your info from?
Much respect to you Sir.
A politician’s response: “we need more money”
No, you need to better prioritize funds and stop scimming unallocated funds.
accurate
yeah and what political party runs this state and keeps getting voted in, year after year with problems worsening!!
@@lude4u2nv the same one that fought to keep slavery
She's a crook.
🎯 💯 all the excuses they come up with…
I began injecting heroin here in Seattle when I was eighteen/ nineteen years old. At the age of twenty-one I went into the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 138 months. I was released at the age of thirty- two and successfully made it though 6 months of living in a federal halfway house. While I was in that halfway house I was trained as a machinist fabricating airplane parts for the Boeing Airplane Company. When I left the halfway house and obtained my own apartment and remaining employed ... I relapsed, developing a whole new heroin addiction and eventually a federal warrant was put out for my arrest and I went back to prison for a year. After my release for the second time I had no parole and I went on another mad, insane dash through the haze and self imposed dread of another heroin habit. When I turned fifty, something shifted deep inside of my being. I began treatment here in Seattle at Evergreen Treatment Services. I didn't go through inpatient treatment; I didn't adopt any twelve step recovery program. I grew up a little bit and life began to look differently to me. I had been breaking my Mother's heart and putting her through the worst worry and hurt that any human being can possibly shoulder. Now she and I speak everyday. Trust and love has been restored and is flourishing freely. The same goes for my two sisters and one brother. And my aunties, etc. Today, I don't jaywalk. I don't keep a library book past its due date. I have a five hundred sq. ft., brand new apartment with a bathtub, shower, washer and dryer. I'm fifty-seven now and my monthly pension goes to #1 Paying my rent. #2 Paying my phone bill. And #3 Groceries. I have acquired several new addictions; I am hooked on viewing documentaries; historical, musical, biographical, and I devour books by the dozens weekly. I cannot believe that I am the same man that gave over thirty+ years of my life to injecting heroin. And I cannot believe the things I see on the streets of downtown Seattle. An addict would never get away with these behaviors and actions when I was addicted and on the streets. Besides, I always managed to maintain a measure of self respect and dignity. I would never expose a lady or a child to my behaviors as an addict. I spent twelve+ years in several different Federal Penitentiaries for a handful of non violent drug related offenses. It just takes some self reflection and a bit of personal growth. Peace everyone.
Pretty amazing story! You are fortunate to have a good relationship with your parent - not everyone has that.
@threethrushes Thank you very much. Yes, I brought years and years of worry and hurt to my mother, and it took lots of work to build that trust back. 🙏
Thank you for sharing your journey in life.
I have seen bad things out on the street and in abandoned dirty dark buildings while I was waiting for my next 'fix' to arrive.
Came so so close to selling my body to pay for it in that abandoned dirty dark building with damp dirty mattresses and dirty needles because that is all I thought I was worth to the world and I was only 19-20yo, fresh meat for the market and still a virgin.
Anyway, that was so long ago and I am glad I dragged myself out of that deep dark grey hole. I am still messed up with self esteem and trusting issues maintaining relationships of any sort but getting there wherever there is as long as it is not in that deep dark hole that is shitsville.
Peace
What I want to know is how do you get a pension? You obviously didn't work much if you were in prison. I suppose the taxpayers are supporting you. The rest of us have to work into our 60s to get retirement. I'm sick of supporting people who make bad decisions. You had the same opportunity as everyone else. You chose the wrong path. That's on you.
The beginning of my recovery started in Sacramento. I was arrested, and spent 28 days in jail. That was only the beginning, but now it has been 35 yrs clean.
That is great news! Congrats!
Respect to you.
Very happy and proud of you Roy 👍👏🙏🏻
Because of Prop 47, no one else will get that chance.
luv U Roy, cangrats!
I was homeless for a number of yrs after I served some time in TX. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to go to San Fran. I was stuck there a month. Anything they are saying is true,in fact they can't over state the problem.u can't take 2steps without setting ur foot down near a syringe. There are blocks that are run by Asian, Russian and other street gangs. U look down,u see nothing,hear nothing and walk fast. And I seen plenty! Good luck! I was thanking God for delivering me from that place! I now have my own apartment in Colorado. It's not quite rosey,but I have a place to lay my head thats mine!
GOD BLESS YOU
Im just glad you're safe and ok.
Life's a 🤬 man!
Why the heck would you gravitate to California of all places?
Colorado is becoming a California.. over price, increase drugs.. ect ect... leftband never going back
I lived in San Francisco back in 1999-2001. Back then, the city seemed like a utopia, at least for me, coming from rural Connecticut, and being about 25 years old. The Tenderloin wasn't a phenomenal place to be, but it was alright. Based on what I'm seeing right here and right now, it's an absolute cesspool. Whatever has been done for the past 20+ years, clearly isn't working. San Francisco, you need to make a massive pivot, and go in a completely different direction. Also, everyone, don't do drugs!!!
Democratic policies, Democrats destroyed the city, just like Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta ... See the pattern?
I was also there for a short time during that period. I loved that city!! Now, I wouldn’t even want to visit it for a weekend.
Yup and hmm let's see WHO HAS BEEN RUNNING SF FOREVER!!! Go ahead far left continue your crap continue the crap hole plan.
When my family and I formerly came to San Francisco for an afternoon at Golden Gate Park and a delicious dinner at Fisherman’s Wharf back in the fifties and feeling safe wherever we went, it is so tragic anyone has to be homeless and be affected by drugs. It is obvious from what is seen in so many cities these days, that this should not be allowed to go on.
I lived in SF for 25. years and heard the same thing every few years. The problem has definitely gotten worse, but the empty rhetoric from politicians has mostly stayed the same.
Keep voting these DAM DEMONCRATES, it will get even worse !
This is what amazes me. Year after year vote these same politicians in who live like kings and guess looting these cities and selling out our country. They along with the media have thrown out nothing but distractions. Love him or hate him look how they went after trump, when these people have profited so greatly while at least trump built his empire , of course there’s corruption there but my god nothing like what these elected officials have done! Wake up California liberals!
Black politicians
Money from the Jewish community
@@renerodriguez8983 He will. My neighbors are the same way. They leave shit holes caused by Demacraps and move to your town and destroy it.
That's because it ISN'T THE "POLITICIANS" JOB TO FIX THIS. It's the citizens responsibility. They just shirk it.
No no no no no no, it's not about help. I can speak on it. I was homeless and I was in prison for 5 years and stayed on probation for 3 years. U have to want to change it's not up to society to spoon feed. A lot of people got this thing twisted
Yes,this is what I'm trying to say in my comment. This is a better way of saying what I'm trying to get across .thanks.
Spoon feed you? Addiction isn't some easy fix you ex con. Nor will people get as lucky as you and get a job where they don't care about your past crimes. You've given no solutions to the problem. So by your words these people are lazy do nothing freeloaders so what should happen to them.
@@lpk6372 obviously they need to killed. Or else stop talking about it.
@@lapx1 they are being killed why do you think the government is flooding the streets with fentynol, it's the Crack epidemic all over again
True. But I'm not sure if it's spoon feeding. I've had first hand experience at how the city and the nonprofit industry or here INTENTIONALLY CREATE these issues. But it's easy for the city to psychologically mine screw the public into believing what they want them to believe. And fully blaming drug dealers and house less is just hiding the government collaborations.
A city I once called home, and is very dear to my heart. It is sad that I see no hope for the city anymore.
Same way I feel about Seattle. I lived their back in the 90s, now? Thanks to "progressive" policies? I don't even want to see the dump its become.
Do you still vote for this crap?
I only visited SF a week ago (the last time I visited was 2007). It was heartbreaking to see how downtown has changed. Market St, the main drag of downtown SF, is now an extension of the Tenderloin. Most of the stores have closed and barely anyone walks there apart from the homeless and/or mentally ill. I remember getting out of the Civic Center BART station with my suitcase thinking I got to get off Market St asap. It's very disconcerting for tourists and I can't imagine what it's like for those who live in downtown SF. One night I got an uber which drove through the Tenderloin and it was absolutely mayhem. I don't know how the city will solve this problem, it's so complex and multi-faceted
Everything democrats touch turns to 💩
Went to California for the first time last year. It’s definitely one of the most beautiful natural states here in the US but it’s shocking just how many people don’t care where they dump their garbage.
Yeah it’s sad to see this! I’m born in the BayArea and it’s the Democrats that beautify the community for profits! Who’s shoveling the next down the road! I grow up with AIDS/crackheads and gang violence in the BayArea! It’s just another political agenda for spending on bandages! Sadly it’s not the Summer of Loving in the real! Just be safe with a the visit around the woods! 🙏❤️👊🤙🦦
We like bragging how progressive we are, but that’s a self pat on the back for good publicity.
@@whoknowswhocares885 you are 1,000% correct!
Because garbage is equal. It can be recycle for empowerment and diversity.
@itp5x5
Yes, well expect this to be swept under the rug and only addressed to be ignored. Also don’t expect anyone to address the cities soft on crime movement either.
I am a former resident of SF, and the Tenderloin has been on the decline for decades! Most of the people living on the streets there are mentally ill, and have been forsaken by federal and local governments. They need to be put back into mental institutions so that they get the help and meds they need!
I think you're right. Reopen the state hospitals.
Most mental institutions suck so people don’t get proper care since it’s more than just meds, they need fully licensed staff
@@wildrose5554 Back in the day the state hospital in Toledo OH was a sprawling campus where there were many patients getting treatment. I think it was for the good. Don't give mentally ill people money to live on the streets, and terrorize the neighborhood.
@Whiskey Darling Yes, it is the governments job to “take care of people”, it’s literally the definition of ‘government’. Most of these people are mentally ill, or addicts. We are civilized and civilized people take care of those that can’t take care of themselves. Elderly, children, mentally ill, handicapped, you know, people that need to be cared for. I’m sure you’re a Christian , right?
@Whiskey Darling that's the whole point of having a government actually....
I once read that some lives are lived as warnings to others.
I now believe that some societies exist as warnings to others.
LOOK, WWIII AND TOTAL COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY IS IN ORDER SOON. SO YOUR WARNINGS CANNOT KEEP YOU OUT OF THE GATES OF HELL THAT HAS ITS DOORS WIDE OPEN AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY TO PREPARE YOURSELVES AND GET OUT OF THE HERDS OF ENDLESS DESPERATE SHEEPLE WHO WILL TURN ON EACH OTHER LIKE A PACK OF RABID WOLVES WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE. YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE WILL SOON BEOME THE REALITY YOU NEVER DREAMED POSSIBLE. BETTER BE GOOD AT HIDING AND LIVING IN SOLITUDE. THE GREAT RESET IS NOT A GLOBAL OPERATION MEANT FOR THE WEAK OF MIND. IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT YET. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON GENOCIDE, RACISM AND SOME SLAVERY. AND WAR IS THE BIGGEST BUSINESS THIS COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER. SO WHEN YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD FOR SO LONG AND CREATE MASS AMOUNTS OF GLOBAL ENEMIES. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. WE LIVED BY THE SWORD, SOON WE WILL DIE BY THE SWORD. BUT IT WILL NOT MATTER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T WAKE UP DEAD PEOPLE AND TELL THEM I TOLD YOU SO. JUST A BUNCH OF DUMBED DOWN SHEEP WHO HAVE NO CLUE WHO IS PLAYING THEM OR CALLING THE SHOTS TO THEIR DEMISE. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THE MONEY, LIFESTYLE AND TOYS THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON. GREED WILL BE THEIR MAIN DOWNFALL AS WELL AS THEIR EVIL, DEMONIC ANTI-CHRIST GENDERLY BENDERLY CHALLENED WAYS. DESTROYING A NATION FROM WITHIN IS FAR EASIER THEN THE BLOOD AND GUTS ROUTINE. CONSIDERING AMERICA LOVES MONEY MORE THEN ANYTHING. AND ANYONE OR ANYTHING IS FOR SALE FOR THE RIGHT PRICE. AMERICA THE WHORE OF BABYLON IS RIPE FOR THE TAKING.
Right. That way you do a thing.
My wife and I travelled around the states for 7 months and travelled 30,000 miles about 7 years ago. Amazing trip and absolutely loved the states. San Fransisco was absolutely disgusting even back then, can only imagine what it’s like now. Watched a guy take a shit right in front of me in the middle of the day on the footpath.
"Watched a guy take a shit right in front of me in the middle of the day on the footpath."
Damn, guy couldn't even take a dump in peace without some tourists ogling.
He is right: “People can change”. Doesn’t mean they will…
Doesn't mean they won't either, also not everyone homeless is a drug addict. Biggest myth ever.
A Leopard can't change its spots.
@@toniesedrick691 | I absolutely agree! Another myth is that all homeless people live on the street. Some have jobs and just cannot afford to live 😔
@@toniesedrick691 Nobody said everybody is a drug addict.
5:14 That sidewalk bobsledder got the moves. He going to the Olympics!
The statement made by the one homeless man regarding his attitude about drug addiction should be emphasized: if I am permitted to use my drugs at these places, I will choose to procrastinate getting off them, and just continue using." If the government makes it more comfortable to stay homeless and abusing drugs, the behaviors will most likely continue.
Very complex issue
That homeless man is smarter and more self aware then 90% of the commenters here
The issue isn't complex at alk its just people want to be politically correct and meander instead of doing what needs to be done
@@Wavyso well I live in a place where we do aggressively prosecute and we still have high homeless and the most meth usage around, along with fentanyl
Very true! Sooner or later the user has to make a decision. Live or die! That simple if they choose to live then their ready for help tho it will still be difficult!
@MC Dano prison isn't the answer you are correct. Since the 50s the solution for the mentally ill and drugaddicts and alcoholics has been prison. In my case thats what it took to save me.
I lived close to San Francisco over 40 years ago. It seems nothing has changed.
HVALA TI DRAGI BOZE STO SI MI ODREDIO DA ZIVIM U LEPOJ SUNCANOJ SRBIJI😊
Not all of Serbia is good and not all USA is bad. Every nation has their own issues.
I accidentally found myself on this street with my family after staying at a hotel around the corner. Saw drug deals in the open and people shooting up with syringes all over the floor. Flagged down a cab and got the heck out of there.
Yer Hella lazy it's like a 2 block walk out of there
@@Elgreasyburrito650 And it`s only a few steps down the hall to the death house... So, What`s your point?!? He was unfamiliar with the area, and which way to go, but not the danger. Best money he ever spent...
@@Kharkovkid the comment wasn't that serious
@@Elgreasyburrito650 Self defense gurus tell us that being accosted by the "homeless" is the most common and yet most dangerous interaction that the average person will have on a day to day basis...Good on him for listening to his gut.
Now that! Was the best thing you did God bless you!
The biggest barrier seems to be the locals who enable the users, believing they are being kind hearted.
You really think that's the "biggest barrier"? I can almost assure you that it's not. Let's say not a single local gives a single dollar or a sandwich to any of these people. Do they all clean themselves up and find good paying jobs and deposit their litter in an acceptable receptacle on their way out? LOL! Do they immediately heal from their mental and physical illnesses? Do they get sudden immunity from dope-sickness, for those who are addicted? Do their schizophrenic hallucinations suddenly evaporate without medication and treatment because no one bought them a sandwich today? Do they suddenly have a place to live? LOL You're self-delusional in service of your own beliefs, which have nothing to do with the reality of these lives. Do you really think the problem is due to locals who may use ultimately ineffective means to try to help?
I'll agree that street-level handouts from locals won't fix the problem. But is that really the "biggest" obstacle here? I think it's not. In fact, I know it's not. Although I understand that is a comforting thought for you personally.
@@mimim7026 Someone is giving them stuff. I see people hand their cash to panhandlers locally myself. One guy asked me where the casino was. Had money to play I guess. We are the only country with overweight homeless. If nobody is giving them stuff, then how are they there? Think about it.
Nothing could be more American than this
USA!!USA!!USA!!
San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in America. Some years ago I had the oportunity to study there, now, I'm sad to hear that. God blass San Francisco.
These issues have existed for over 30 years. Nothing has changed.
Been longer than that. I remember visiting my grandparents in the 70’s and seeing homeless people and my parents telling me that they were mentally ill war veterans that the government discarded like trash.
It's a little tumor back then that turned into a cancer. That's what makes it different now. Democrats would never have the will to solve this. Democrat cities are plagued with this kind of problem and it will just continue getting worse especially with San Francisco.
...only if change has gotten first..
The problem just keeps growing, and growing.
The tenderloin has been this way my whole life. This is not new
Chief Scott and D.A. Boudin both should have been INTERVIEWED
How about Pelosi.
Fired.
@@dodieodie498 She doesn't care because they keep voting her in office and she needs their votes
@@pamelamorris3148 I keep trying to figure out what Pelosi has done for her constituents so that they keep voting her in.
@@dodieodie498 @NaturallyPaige_ It's fine. BIDEN and Pelosi will fix all of this
I’m so sorry San Francisco, we will make it through
The government needs to open more mental hospitals and drug rehab clinics.
I agree.
I'm 70 years old. The tenderloin hasn't changed SINCE I WAS BORN.
Only the names of the elected democrats have changed.
@@brad3378 except Feinstein.
And who has been running San Francisco ? DemocRATS!
It has only gotten worse.
@@SURENITY
I agree 100%
Democrats aren't the same people that they used to be. If JFK came back to life tomorrow, the Dems would call him a right-wing extremist by today's wacky standards.
The transparency in this report is the first step. Continue pressuring both the mayor and the D.A.
They think people are stupid I wouldn't forget what any of these people did I would vote them out of office they don't deserve to hold their positions they are only doing it because of the upcoming election in November people fall for this deserve what they get
*Better yet throw both of those scumbag Democrats in prison along with the other Democrats that caused this problem,* 👍
Fire them all! Elect independent minds who are not bought and sold by big tech and pharma
A black female mayor ? Will get pressured ... in hades. Laughable.
Oh yeah Chesa Boudin’s really going to solve issues….
I live in Vancouver and we have the same issues, it’s pretty bad. Life is pretty good if you make a six figure salary and if you don’t…well. I think the issue is greed. Once upon a time you could afford a place to live. I have a decent job but I can barely afford my $1400 rent, and that’s considered cheap! It’s truly disheartening. It’s no wonder people turn to dope. When you are filled with hopelessness what do you think is going to happen? Housing is a need not a luxury. I think the wealthy who don’t have to worry about things are a little out of touch.
I feel for this young woman. I can say that I personally wouldn't have wanted to live with all these injuries. You can see the scars all over her legs and arms. This is so sad. I think the dogs were triggered by the alarm. They are in protect mode. The sign on the door was not meant to say that the dogs were vicious. Some dogs are goofy crazy. I know that my goldendoodle, Henry, is just plain goofy. He's such a happy dog that I could never imagine him being violent. However, like my Grandma always said, "At the end of the day, it's a dog. You never know what they will do."
The first minute of this video told me all I need to know. The Tenderloin has had a reputation for decades. It's BEEN in this 'state of emergency' for years. And electing the same party that has done absolutely NOTHING about it during this entire time frame will bring zero change. Good luck, SF. And good luck, California.
Unpopular opinion: Stop wasting money on stalls where they can shoot up “safely” and allocate those funds to people who can actually use it to make a positive changes in their lives.
Prayers
Thanks for sharing your amazing video
The people running SF ruined the city. This is like putting a bandaid on a sinking ship.
its been dying for over a hundred years
@@chromebomb Truckers passing through San Francisco crossing the bay Bridge into Oakland
A band-aid would never stop a sinking ship, dude. Band-aids are only for like small scratches on people.
@@MiC-T you get it! Maybe you should run for mayor.
at least they are trying
Thank you for your passion in this coverage to save San Francisco. Corruption in our gov and so-called non-profits invite more homeless people and drug users to SF. Hope people will wake up and vote corruption out.
Homeless problems are ATM machines for politicians. Nothing gets fixed if politicians and friends line their pockets. There is zero oversight or transparency of how millions of dollars are spent. Non-profits are just a front for politicians.
Nancy Pelosi needs their votes and continues to invite them there and offers more resources than the working man and woman.
This is just gibberish, got a real solution to this? Or are you just advocating for throwing everyone in jail?
@@coachelly86 People will be as bad as you allow them to be. It's high time we started expecting people to behave like adults. Yes, lots of people do have mental problems, yet we are making those problems ever worse by allowing this chaos to continue.
Its a nice thought,but even the voting system is rigged. Demoncraps CHEAT.
I’m from the UK and have travelled all over Europe, the Middle East, New York etc and the only place I ever felt un safe was here in the Tenderloin.
Totally unacceptable to allow a central district of a major city to degrade like this, especially such an iconic city. It's getting to the point now where it is very clear the methods used just aren't working, it's just getting worse. It's turning into NYC of the 80s. Tolerance is generally good for society, tolerance for crime is not as it just creates more victims and perpetrators, and just grows from there on.
Its not a entrenched problem...they have been stealin the tax money and not helping anyone. Look at the Public Works Director who was indicted
So true, and the homeless shelters have rules that make it impossible for people to get out. They have to be there at a time that is unreasonable if they are working out looking for a job, and the people that run the shelters enjoy upsetting homeless people and are just there to catch them on some arbitrary rule they choose to enforce or not to their convenience. It's absolutely disgusting how infested "human services" are with peopl nefarious people. Let's not forget that AIDS was given to people by the CIA in San Francisco. That city is a hub for the occult, and I wouldn't be there in the next few months because it's going to collapse when they destroy the base underneath the city.
What’s amazing is how people in the Bay Area and really, the state at large, refuse to speak out against the exact policies that helped lead to this. Sure, all the other variables exist, but if you can’t take responsibility for your part, no amount of housing supply will fix it.
The worst part is they keep looking to the very same politicians that created this mess to fix it.
I’ve literally seen people dying, people with knifes saying “ima kill you” to people walking by (I had to walk by and hope not to get poked)
Yep, that's liberals for you. Privileged and ignorant
California is speaking but our words go on deaf ears.
Imagine yourself, a voice of reason in a cacophony of liberalism. That is my life at the moment.
I live abroad. People often ask me whats going on with usa.
I tell them America has AWOKEN
i remember going to this city in 2018. it's a lawless place. i walked through the whole tenderloin maybe two times and from just passing through it twice I've literally saw with my own eyes people shooting up heroin sitting down on the sidewalk, drug attict looking person running out if store with food shoplifting, two men having sex at the top of a building staircase, an extraordinary amount of feces on sidewalks, a homeless man pulling his junk out then pissing inside a bus stop trash standing a foot away from a baby in a stroller woth mother. he wasn't accurate at first and piss literally splattered off the can into the stroller. I wouldn't suggest any woman walking through this place at night alone.
Sounds like something from Sodom and Gomorra. Just needs the roaming rape gangs next or is that already not reported.
Worked in the Tenderloin for years, up until a few months ago. I had to leave. Years and years of being COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ignored by the city. They even pulled all the cops off the corners... then months later, put them back, but with a remit that they could only get involved in the event of an imminent danger to life and health. Well, at that point, it's too late. Spent too many mornings trying to protect my coworkers, too many mornings moving bodies, moving piles of feces, watching overdoses.... the city knew about this problem for years. The humans just didn't matter to anyone. Three bullets through my window, over a dozen attacks on me (just for walking), people trying to throw needles at me... I couldn't take it anymore. All they did was shuffle people around. No one cares.
There is absolutely NOTHING anyone can do if the people on the streets don't want to help themselves FIRST. There's not enough philanthropy or money on this entire earth that can solve this problem unless they want to look at themselves in the mirror and make a change. For the sake of good people that want to have peace, safety, and be a productive member of society with a quality life, these degenerates should all be gathered-up and shipped out to tent cities in the middle of the California desert. If tents were good enough for our veterans serving in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, then they are certainly good enough for these losers of society.
@little draneThere's a philosophical argument called the Veil of Ignorance. I would ask that you apply the concept as a thought experiment, and then review your reply
@little drane Additionally, you have to understand the complex city and human factors that gave birth to this situation over the past 50 years.
I commend your fortitude…I have lived in the city for 46 years …..traveling in and around the Tenderloin….I was younger when I arrived here from Mass. along with my brother….age 26 I was….I am about to turn 72 in a week…..I had my bike stolen parked across the street from the YMCA on a meter pole. Yah…..I came out of the YMCA dumbfounded…..my lock was left on the ground. I appreciate your story and quite frankly it amazes me that city residents outside the area have no idea of the drug sales and use. Glad you and others found a way out.
@little drane Bot or troll ?
Look at the problems we have in the country but everyone praying for Ukrainians sending all the blessings to them but your own. Even willing to fight for foreigners but not your own. I pray for the people in America
That’s right
Man drug addiction is a complex problem n California policies only makes it easier. It's sad n there is no easy solution. They have da right to be a junkie and that won't change till they seek treatment
We have been and will be praying for our own. But, it’s our Government in DC and California that don’t care about the people. This administration is destroying the World not just America 🇺🇸. Get in good with God you will be standing in front of Him soon.
Drug addiction and war are two vastly different subjects
Exactly I been on the streets for 13 years and my own people (CHRISTIANS) WON'T EVEN HELP ME. DON'T DESIRE TO EITHER. STILL HOMELESS.
Why don’t I hear anyone talk about cutting off supply? If you can arrest drug lords in other countries, why can’t you arrest those in your backyard.
This video was a year ago and the tenderloin is even worse now. Great job!
This is some of the best reporting from a local news station I’ve seen in ages.
Why cos they actually pointed out a problem ? You know it's just surface level, right ? That guy higher up, Derek Kjar, that commented he was 5 years on the streets. 5 YEARS. You think u can do that no matter what city ?!
@@ZeroDepresiv I’m not sure what you’re getting at but yes, because they actually pointed out a problem and explored potential solutions and current practices and their effectiveness. I don’t live in California but I understand homelessness and drug use is a huge problem and often it’s hard to find honest reporting on it.
@@Stoker58 Well, I didn't get how was this problem around for so long. Did they tackle that ?
Seattle is Dying is even better from the local ABC affiliate out there
It’s crazy how drugs destroys people and ppl continue to use them. Drug dealers should be imprisoned for life all of them. Take all of that from the streets.
Arrest everyone doing drugs and give them a choice: A. rehab and no charges or B. a trial date. doing drugs doesnt mean youre a bad person, but habitual littering and degrading the environment you share with others merits a wake up call.
Why would they change it when Reagan's "War on Drugs" is working exactly as intended? Surely you don't think America, the land of the "free", has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world by accident, or that those incarcerated are disproportionately black?
Now nothing can be done, it is rotten so let it be.
Prison is expensive.
@@simplyincorrigible7708 Letting people commit crimes is far more expensive. In fact, no society can afford it.
Opoid rehab is a joke. They just get them hooked on a legal opoid like suboxone or methadone.
I was stabbed in the back twice in 2014 when I stopped an obviously mentally ill street person from attacking a man in a wheelchair over a bottle of water that belonged to the man in the wheelchair. I went to court and testified against the guy and everything but he got some minor jail sentence. Then a few years later he supposedly stabbed and killed some random lady and somehow beat the charge. Then about 6 months ago he savagely beat another fellow Army vet almost to death with a metal bar. This time they're talking about sending him to some kind of "prevention program", whatever the hell that is. It is an objective fact that beyond a really basic point stiffer jail sentences do not deter crime at scale but it is also an objective fact that if we throw violent ass people like that clown in jail then there will almost for sure be at least a few less victims. While I completely agree with some policies that are lenient on criminals in terms of jail sentences I think the bay area and California in general go way to far with it. Violent criminals shouldn't just have the book thrown at them but be relentlessly beaten with the book.
It’s the California prosecutorial system, they want to reward criminals. In the future you’ll be going to jail for standing up for yourself.
I remember too when I first moved to the Bay Area in the mid-90s KPIX catchphrase was from the most beautiful place on Earth.
The only emergency is that the midterms are coming up. Nothing will change .
I Can't wait.
😢 We’re in Seattle, and at the pace we’re “progressing” we’ll be neck to neck with SF in a few years. I used to take my kids downtown for ice cream, music and street fairs. Now? It’s homeless tents, naked bodies, constant police sirens, car break-ins, and garbage piles. We have a defective political system.
Yes because the council is woke and rotten, they do not beleive in good or less crime they make too much money. And they have the worst governor ever .He now thinks every one should give up their guns yeah sure brilliant just let criminals run everything!
Wait... "naked bodies?"
It has nothing to do with politics. And everything to do with inflation. And greed. Americans cant afford to live off these wages anymore Things need to change and we need to stop letting big companies and investment firms buy up all the housing
With all of the high value real estate in the USA, our cities should have the most abundant and beautiful public housing in the world. Whose pockets are lined with all of that money from big city property taxes?
@@bw2408 you know there is homelessness, drug use and crime in conservative run towns, right? You talk about guns but conveniently forget that it was a republican governor in California that pissed all over the constitution by making it illegal for California citizens to open carry.
imagine paying to live in San Francisco... lol
I'm not a drug addict. I'm 61 and unable to work due to crippling arthritis and spine issues. I live with severe pain and I would be homeless if not for my amazing kids. I don't make enough from disability to survive on my own and I make too much to get any additional assistance. I want my own place so bad. I'm thankful I was able to work for 35 years and raise my children.
I’m sorry your in your place at your age. People don’t release this wasn’t your. Plan either. Hardened hearts from past need to stop. Specially the judging types. Energy is real . Krama sucks.
i don't understand how disability doesn't pay you enough to stay off the streets without help. most likely it is because of the severe shorting of housing that has become a crisis in many places because of illegal immigration primarily. there used to be places that you could rent for 400 per month or less but unfortunately biden has been spreading millions of illegal housing around the country to ensure that we pay more and the elite makes more. they all pretend like its because they care about those illegals. really they care about them. most young girls are raped before they make it across the border. thousands die every year in the dessert trying to cross the border. others who actually make it end up in debt to drug cartels that don't have the option of giving you a negative rating on your credit report so they simply kill you if you don't pay your debts. politicians only care about themselves. never believe anything else unless you want to be a fool.
God bless your children. May they all be healthy and continue to have great love for you to take care of you. 🙏 💖
Why not move to a more affordable place so you can have your own home?
@@MrSneaksful Just so simple isn't?
I lived in San Francisco for 9 years. I was homeless, shooting heroin & meth for 6 of those years. Started up in Golden Gate park selling weed at the park entrance shooting heroin. When things became too heated there I relocated to Church and Market area and started shop lifting from stores, and breaking into cars, taking laptops and GPS's. Finally I ended up in the tenderloin barley able to pay for my addiction, which ment I was sick more often then not. Out of those 9 years I spent 6 of them sleeping on the sidewalk. All I had was cardboard to lay on, so that I didn't feel the cold of the cement and a grey scratchy wool blanket to protect me from the wind or rain. I woke up everyday sick, worthless and devastated about my life. I would see people die on a weekly event and all I ever thought was who was there for them at the end. The fear of me dieing alone haunted me day in and day out. My career criminal lifestyle was catching up with me. I managed to rack up 14 shoplifting charges. I knew I was going to jail and eventually with draw would be worse then the sentence itself. Luckily they offered me Drug Diversion. I was sent to a treatment facility in the city called Walden House. I was there for 14 long hard months. It was quite possible one of the hardest things I have ever done. I almost left the first 2 to 3 weeks of being there. Luckily thier were people there that really cared and listened, no matter how crazy I sounded. I got a job working with the homeless for Archdiocese Church in the Tenderloin. They let the homeless sleep in the church during the day even with mass 2x a day. I was there to monitor them, help them with referrals to services and even take some to appointments. The 2½ years that I worked there was the most rewarding job I have ever had and I can honestly say that I miss it. Now 12 years later after leaving the city I am still sober, married, still active in AA/NA with a sponsor and a great group of friend/ support group. I know this whole story was a lot. I wrote all of this for a few reason. Those reasons are to say I actively used heroin for 11 years. I thought I would die on that cement and no one would be there for me in my death. Finally I know when we see the homeless you see them as burden or a eye sore. Just remember that, that person can change. Some it may take a change of environment. Others it just might be someone believes in them. Recovery is a tricky thing. Who knows what it takes for someone to see the other side of the coin but when they finally do there life will change forever.
I'm of the belief that you do what you want....
That said, you also should have been forced into rehab at least 6 YEARS before you finally stopped abusing yourself.....
I'm glad you got help
I wonder why you succeeded and other people are unable to succeed. You must have the will of a wrecking ball. Congratulations to you
Doped out street people are not a "burden". 80% are chronic drug addicts and thieves THEREFORE...a chronic criminal THREAT. Not a blight, not a burden....A DIRECT THREAT TO MY PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY., Do you get that ?? Do you really ?? This is criminal activity supported by MORE criminal activity. Do you get that ?? NOT F*CKING OK EVEN ONCE. Did you ever go back and pay back every innocent person you ever ripped off. ??? Of course you haven't. Nor will you. Therefore...you still owe them. You still have debt on your soul with interest . NOT pardoned yet MR.
I worked for many years with an ex car thief who got caught and went to prison for it for several years, only to come out with the DELUSION that he had somehow "repaid" his debt to society or the state or whatever. First off...he didn't steal the states car. It was stolen from ONE PERSON, who worked very hard for it and NO DOUBT needed it for work like we all do. That poor guy is STILL out one car and until it paid back to him IN FULL PLUS INTEREST FOR THE TROUBLE...then MR. thief has paid NOTHING back to ANYONE RELEVANT TO THE THEFT. What's that you say ??? The car owners insurance company covered it ??? MAYBE 1/2 of it. but ....they don't really cover it, They lowball you what they think they can get away with and then they simply push the entire debt off on all their clients and why the hell should we all pay for petty criminals thieving asses as well as the 100 grand it cost to have Buddy incarcerated. Yea...that's right....It costs the state (THEREFORE...the taxpayers) $50,000 per year to incarcerate someone. He did 2 years. He owes the taxpayers one hundred grand and some poor dude one car. He has paid his debt to society MY ASS. Way too many people in this culture excusing away their immoral illegal behavior way too easily for my tolerance. Yea...I'm a hardass. welcome to my world. Sorry not sorry.
yay
well done you thanks for sharing,
San Francisco doesn’t need to worry about tourist’s anymore!😃
サンフランシスコに住んだことがありますが、こんなことになってるなんてとてもショックです いつかまたサンフランシスコに住みたいと思ってましたがあまりの変わりようにただただショックです
Relocate them to rehabilitate and work on a farm in the Central Valley. Help them stay clean and be a productive part of society
Hell no. Stay away from the Valley. Those bums can stay in shitty SF.
@@lotto5742 I bet you that if our Mayor pays your Mayor millions, you will get all our drug addicts
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There's an interesting place 20 miles outside of Portland Oregon. It is a 1920s Poor House that was vacated for years and has been refurbished by McMenamins restaurant into a really nice hotel / Vineyard / restaurant / Spa. Seriously, it's wonderful and not only a nice drive from the city but it gives a great history by saving a lot of the original information and putting it up on the walls of how it was a poor house for nearly 1,000 men who were relocated to the farm and which supplied food for its tenants and also gave them room and board. As I recall reading at least one of the placards they were to get up at 5 a.m. to go work in the fields. There were no needle exchanges, no free amenities but serious work. Work on the farmlands which provided food for not only the tenants but the city of Portland. That's how they did it in the twenties and that property actually dealt with the depression and took on hundreds more than it was built for. I thought it was an interesting part of history and how unemployed but able-bodied people were housed 100 years ago.
You can do all you want. If the individual doesn’t want help or change, nothing you can do but let them drown.
I'm old enough to remember when laws were enforced, drunks and drug addicts were jailed or run out of town, today they are given free stuff
and services and are referred to as 'homeless' people, giving them a respect that is totally unwarranted.
Was that all a dream or are you over 100? 😩😂. So much crime went unchecked in the last 100 years unless you were black or brown…
That image of the late senator speaking to people about bla, bla, bla some decades ago and the current situation are the perfect summary.
What a lovely colourful area.
I'm moderate and have lived in CA all my life, but this is when you go too far left and create a societal apathy towards personal responsibility. Our current state government has done nothing to mitigate the cost of living and has simply continued to raise taxes under the guise of making social programs that supposedly "solve" these problems. We need rationality to come back to the not-so-golden state.
Good point.. compassion without accountability... isn't really compassion at all. It's a deflection tactic. Everyone's chugging vodka, gulping down xanax and popping Adderall while simultaneously glorifying b l o o d diamonds. That's why they avoid accountability regarding society, addiction, our environment etc depending on which political extreme your dealing with. The left, right and everyone in between are basically overgrown toddlers with no discipline or deductive reasoning. Joke with no punchline but everyone's just too self obsessed to evolve. RESPECT 💯🦾
Mitigate the cost of living? Yes, living costs money.
What is the definition of a conservative? A liberal who has been mugged.
We take in too many foreigners from other countries. Our population grew largely from mass immigration and illegal entry. Commiefornia is a perfect example of cramming too many people in popular living destinations. Commiefornians voted for this. Only reason they want immigrants to come is because they believe every single immigrant is non-white and it somehow makes "white America" mad. When you keep dumping the world's poor onto your doorstep, well, don't come crying to me when it begins harming your life. Rich white leftietards learned the hard way when the cult of BLM and antifa came to their doorsteps. Look at how many people left mega cities because of the riots. Left-leaning people are the problem in America.
Why is it a State of Emergency now?? The Tenderloin has been the way it is for a few decades.
Because they want you to focus your attention on the homeless - and off the politicians.
Two words...election year.
@@mllee2008 Good point. Didn't realize it was her 4th year.
Crazy
Nothing will ever be done
“What makes you think i use drugs ?”. Maybe because your missing half your teeth ? Lmao
According to the New York Post, "After Black Lives Matter protesters last year demanded that cities “Defund the police,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed held a press conference to announce that her city would be one of the first to do exactly that. Breed cut $120 million from the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warned the cuts “could impact our ability to respond to emergencies.”
Listen: 14:18 - 14:56; Mayor Breed, you have the audacity to ask the federal government to fund more officers in your city? Had YOU not defunded your police during blm, you would already have the resources in play. Now, pay for your own damn problems! How dare you?!
Here here Dustin Powell
Well, what did you expect from a typical liberal career politician?
She would turn on anybody for a vote.
They want to defund the police. But they are the one who commit most crimes and they are the one who always calling for police.
If you don’t think all of that was the whole plan in the first place then you are naive. All one big plan.
@@pinkvelvet3865 @"The BIBLE" Greatest Book Ever Written.
Last Days Prophesy!
Babylon The Great (America) has Fallen.
All Praises To The Most High and his Son, The Black Messiah.
Pink Velvet, Caucasian, The Most Destructive On Earth.
ELOHIM Vengeance Is Upon America The Wicked!!!
I've earned the right to say this after living in San Francisco from 1989 - 2012 at three different times in my life.
A city will only be as good as the people who reside in it. In 1989, there were countless affordable eateries throughout the city. By 2012, that downtown area was just EXPENSIVE and DEPRESSING.
@@dingusmcgringle9741 Sure, blame a certain race for the problem. That should fix it.
@@The_Savage_Wombat Um no one's race was brought up in his comment
@@jennifercochrane8218 Arians?
Trust me, there are TOO MANY rich people who live in STILL beautiful parts of San Francisco. But the AFFORDABLE parts are now completely RUINED in human filth.
@The Savage Wombat Bay Areans. He meant people that live and make up the Bay area.
Just give them a safe place to deal with their demons so the public does not clash with them , cannot leave them on the streets of a city
London breed just had a news conference and said relax just got it under control😂😊😅
I rented an apartment in the Tenderloin when I was in college (it was the only thing I could afford, given I was working part time at a restaurant) I can't even begin to explain what I saw while I lived there. I was at the corner of Hyde and O'Farrell.... I would love to see better processes in place to get folks off the street. I made friends with a few people I would walk past to and from class. They were good people; usually asked me how class was and genuinely watched out for me. I would try to give them left over food when I had it... Not bad people; just sick, addiction is a beast.
@I Am The Walrus have you ever heard of mental health? You obviously don't have much life experience.
@I Am The Walrus it's a pain killer
I lived briefly in the Tenderloin as a punk rock kid in the early 80s. It was the scariest place I've ever been. We would just be walking around and gnarly old biker guys living in vans would want to fight us and stuff.
Drug addicts will self-regulate if left to their own devices. Stop wasting public money on resuscitating them.
Its too idealistic tbh
It will never change. Handouts equal homelessness and addiction. The more you give the more they take. Help only goes so far. YOU HAVE TO WANT TO CHANGE!!
So give them a hand up as well as a hand out.
This is a lost cause - you're wasting your time and my money.
There is no hope for these people - they're not worth saving.
We are both better served trying to insulate ourselves from them.
You've seen the Zombie movies? They're Here.
@@garygerard4290 you should read the numerous success stories from people who lived there. They're in the comments if you look. Never give up on people. Ever.
@@High_Lord_Of_Terra To paraphrase gary, he is a lost cause, you're wasting your time. I know, I don't like giving up on people (having been homeless for a brief period myself), but for people like gary, I don't bother anymore.
It's a human problem. Some case workers are too swamped or just looking at the job as a free paycheck- they don't really give a frig. There's too many of the latter. Quotas go to immigrants first. Am too scared to admit the kinds of people who are ignored.
What's the situation looking like now?
How's it going now?
I lived with a friend in the Tenderloin briefly around June / July 2016 whilst visiting from Australia. It was quite shocking to see some of the things that went on around the area - the homelessness, old ladies with plastic bottle trolleys, dogs and people defecating everywhere and anywhere in the street, even people openly banging each other at a bus stop in broad daylight whilst high or drunk on something. Fortunately, I never felt 'unsafe' - but wow, this report makes it look like it's much worse now.
Hey! That’s the year I got chased down the street by a crackhead in the tenderloin after doing the lighting for a one art gallery in an alleyway. Good times
The "banging" gets me 😂😂😂
You wont even see this level of crap in plenty of 3rd world countries. And I am not exaggerating when I say that
@@secrets.295 that's American freedom bro. I wish we could bang everywhere 🤣🤣. Just kidding.
@@secrets.295 This should be on the news every time we talk about brining in illegal immigrants. We can not even take care of the people who are already here.
I went to SF for the first time 7 years ago. Am originally from Mexico City.
SF scared me, it was so sad one homeless guy had a sign saying he had aids and needed drugs. Another guy had his shorts down and stuck a needle in his butt. And I saw a little hitting her head against a Starbucks glass door.
It was a shocking vacation.
My prayers to all
Chill. I've visited Mexico city and San Francisco and both can be sketchy except mexico city is way way bigger with nicer areas. San Francisco is much smaller.
It’s not that scary in sf. They don’t do anything to people they just talk to themselves. I got stuck in Mexico City last week and I was scared because I was traveling with my daughter. Not even the officers want to help u out there
What on earth inspires a person to leave one huge city, to go visit another huge city? I cant fathom that.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Really paints the picture of what it was like when you went there. Sorry for the condescending comments from these other people.
No one goes to San Francisco for vacation. You a clown dude.
I’m not sure why this is a surprise. Go back 20 years and read the letters to the editor in the SF Cron. People were complaining about it then.
The cost of living in CA is beyond OUTRAGEOUS. MOST PPL HAVE LOST HOPE
Than leave
@@repentandfollowjesuschrist6170 many have left..but asking someone to save up 5-10 grand when they're already living paycheck to paycheck is no easy TASK. its easy to leave when u have the resources but most ppl dont..most places want first,last,security for a place...thats almost 4 grand..plus moving cost, etc... so yeah most ppl have LOST HOPE
Democrats
As someone who was born and raised in the Bay Area all I gotta say is you can’t help people that don’t want the help
Question to Mayor of SF: I have a complicated problem, would you like to help me?
SF needs to get an emergency forced rehab for addicts busted, instead of jail time, SF needs to get what i would call an oasis program, the city invests in 2 cruise ships, 1 for women, 1 for men, hardcore addicts are forced on rehab ship for 2 weeks. The ships can have a fully staffed paramedic, security and counseling crisis team. Peoples privacy will be respected, each will have a room, a warm bed, food and showers. I think that by isolating individuals from their environment is key.
Man that's crazy as s*** 🤣🤣🤣 cruise ships? I don't know if that's really solution based or just incentive to abandon one's obligations & slip into delirium knowing you'll end up being placed on a cruise ship and fed lobster bisque while your neglected family kisses your feet 😫🤣
Excellent idea. YOU pay for it.
Cheaper to kill dude. This is war!
@@tomjacobson7623 man yall paying for nothing already might as well pay for something lmfao
Good idea in theory (except the cruise ship part.)
Renovate Alcatraz island and use that.
Thomas Wolf is living proof that you can change your life if that's what you truly want.
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Steve o and bam situation as well.
For every reformed person like Thomas Wolf, I figure, are maybe ten thousand drug addicts and alcoholics who can't and won't change. I've met a few homeless drug addicts and alcoholics who tried but couldn't rehabilitate themselves. For most people the urge of addiction is just too strong to overcome.
@@dontforgetthebev1747 They had money and time and no stress
That is everywhere. No one wants to step up to get a solution. Human beings in severe addictions. I had to run from it, it's destructive.
Lived in or near SF from 1987-2006. I thought SF was paradise in the 80s and 90s and figured I'd never live anywhere else. Boy, was I wrong. The decline began in the early 2000s and has been accelerating ever since. Now, barring a miraculous turnaround, I'll never go back.
My family has owned businesses in Los Angeles for over 30 years. We've seen the problem get worse and worse even as more (taxpayer) money has been poured into it. It's a big racket honestly. The politicians and homeless advocacy agencies make a killing. Not to mention the contractors they hire to build units at $800K a pop. I meet homeless people every single day outside my business. Almost every single one is on drugs and from out of state and DON'T want housing. And yes, mental health is a major issue as well.
Because Democrats want open borders
refugees, as many as possible just to get votes..they could careless about the country or the people
Yep, bunch of deadbeats that just wanna get high and rot away. Should just buy a private island and give em all a week's worth of drugs and let em live their dream and quit wasting everyone's space, time, and energy.
You should of seen what happened in Austin, Texas when our dumb mayor let people camp. We ended up with (75 percent) people that came to our city to just camp. A couple of years later- we rolled back the camping ban. Millions are now being dumped into cleaning this up. Yes, help people. But some folks do not want to work- move on. If you need help- we need to help.
fun fact: the majority of beds in homless shelters are empty on any given night, but the solution's always "more money", and "more construction". yet, they're unable to properly manage the existing infrastructure. in the rest of the world, this sort of corruption is solved by 7.62x39mm to the back of the head.
Of course it is a racket and it will keep on getting bigger and bigger.
I visited San Francisco a few years ago and was honestly shocked. The amount of filth and homeless was crazy. And it really didn't matter where you went. Even if you were in a nice neighborhood the filth was always just a few blocks away.
Don’t come back here
@@lorenzocityboy415 Why would I want to?🤣
I was there too! Saw a dude take a shit in front of Cartier, no less! Leaving Cali. You guys handle it from here?!😫
No doubt there will be an ambulance on every block of the City!
@@lorenzocityboy415 trust me nobody wants too lol
We believe that people can change....that's optimistic
i am 62years old now but when i was fourteen i ran away to san francisco i got to the haughty ashbury at midnite i was never so scared but i women who was homeless and had children 5 of-t she took me in for one month till i got caught if it wasn’t for her kind hearti would have been cool so that was in early seventies i can’t imagine it now to scary then but i survive thanks to a women named kat god bless her
10 years ago, a tour operator put me in a hotel in Tenderloin. The area was really intimidating and we were pretty sure we saw a knife fight on the road opposite at night. Ended up moving hotel. There were people who desperately needed help everywhere. It’s hard to imagine it being any worse than what it was then.
The problem is they give TOO MUCH help to the homeless. They give them enough money to live comfortably in conditions they are used to...AND with money giveaways they attract even more homeless. The best thing any city can do is NOT help the homeless.
@@RapIsDeadly even treating you as a human being is a little bit more than we should be doing.
@@markmcgoveran6811 he said thst very cold but he is right. If youve never used meth and felt that high you wouldn't understand. Giving me 700 a month, all the paraphernalia I want, and dealers every corner wkth no risk of arrest?
I would have been dead. It's such an indescribable feeling of confidence, energy and euphoria that tou will literally do it for days unable to stop. The pull it has while on it to redose is insane. So basically these people cannot even consent to treatment lol. And tbeybwill crash hard eventually making them even more desperate to commit crimes to keep the high going. I stopped all drugs because i hit a wall and it felt like after 10 years someone spilled ice cold water dosn my back and I just woke up. I lost all my money everything and crashed.
These people are being enabled to kill.thrmselves. it's like the government thought how do we eradicate hopelessness? Oh yes let's just give thrm free drug money and never arrest them and packmthrm all into one area and hope they all kill themselves off sooner.
@@CHNL.s freedom doesn't fit some people very well you for instance. The people who you say we pack in one place, are free to go and earn their way elsewhere. In general if you go places and you don't follow the rules as well I might lose your car your money in your house everything. If you follow the rules and try hard to keep a job you may lose all these things anyway. But you have freedom. It isn't working out too good for you if you do the world the way you do it. When you have the addict tell you if you haven't done meth you don't understand, instantly you see the addict, is calling you stupid and disregarding you and probably looking for a way to spend your money on something to feed his addiction. If you have done meth and enjoyed that feeling you just don't understand. That's the general difficulty with addicts they claim they had more understanding because they are addicts and somehow they suffer more. If you had the feeling of working for something and someone just taking it away from you and spending it all getting high. You just don't understand until you have that feeling.
@@markmcgoveran6811 mark, I think you misunderstanding me. I'm saying we should either lock them up or send them to treatment for 90 days. At least then they can sober up and make a sane decision. So we agree we each other. I'm completely against the lack of police action and consequences for.these people. I'm saying this as someone who was on hard drugs and quit. My point in explaining the meth high and its pull was that it's so strong that these people have ro be forced into treatment or sobriety. Giving them resources and no consequences looks nice on the surface but in reality is killing them and effective everyone's life who has to deal.worh them.
And I'll tell tlu something. I run my kwn small.bysiness now. We build fences for lots of customers and I have 5 people working for me. I woke up. For once in my life I wanted to feel something other than failure. So just for once I stopped being lazy and gave it my all. I quit drugs. It's been years and I have been going strong off thst initial momentum ever since. It took me stopping drugs to realize what inwas capable of. And with these current programs these people on the street will just smoke whwnswlbes to death
SF needs a big time overhaul! No tourists want to come, no one wants to hold a convention in SF, etc, etc.
SF needs to stop voting democrat
Walgreens left.
No other US city has lost more residents.
No one wants to vacation in California. Let alone have conventions or have your children in the school system.
@@johnwalter6410 it's not a Democrat or republican problem
The state of California is immensely wealthy compared to the rest of the country
The mild weather is different from the rest of the country
The proximity to Mexico and drugs easily being sent into the state is different from the rest of the country
The wealth disparity is different from the rest of the country
Please stop making such easy broad excuses and LOOK AT THE ACTUAL ISSUES
@@makeitmakesense2616 it IS a policy problem. The problem that DEMONRATS created to keep you in la la land.
It looked the same in that area back in the 80s. I don't know how it was before that.
One of the shameful things that we’ve done as a society was close the mental institutions.
I’ve been homeless, and lost everything. I got help, and gained it all back. Some people just aren’t ready unfortunately. I’m always willing, and ready to help people, especially in addiction. I have a friend that I tried helping, and she legit told me she’s not ready. They can change their life around but the drugs are really hard to stop, and also mental health is a huge problem as well.
My son. turned his life around (mental illness + addiction) when HE made the decision to do so, and with lots of help. But you cannot save someone who does not want to participate in the process.
@@LangKatharine your absolutely right. God bless! Happy for you guys! It’s not easy but like you said.
@Cloud Puzzles I think uou're right abt the TH-cam and drug use. To some degree, right abt democrats as well. I was ok with Biden but then the endless caravans began.
@@LangKatharine how very true ,many don't want to.
Finally a honest assessment and answer to the problem. When people are ready to do better they always do!
I live in Finland, we have our own problems with medical care, drug using, depression etc...but not like this. Maybe 10 years ago I thought SF could be such a great and safe place to go. Like it was on TV. But this is terrifying.
Unfortunately, this is becoming the reality for many American cities. It's happening all over the country, and it's all due to so-called progressive policies that enable this to happen without consequence. They literally give out tents for people to camp out and live on the streets. The laws are protecting criminals and enabling them to commit crimes without punishment. The sad thing is the people living here continue voting for the same politicians that are ruining our cities. 🤦♂️
It's never been a good place
The tenants are also sons and daughters.
And here I thought Soylent Green was just a crackpot movie.
I traveled to Japan recently, Every morning you see the shop owners cleaning the front of their stores. Not the government the shop owners/workers cleaning the sidewalks and entryways. Tokyo with 14,000,000 people is spotless. San Francisco with 4,000,000 people is a cesspool. The month I was in Japan I saw 1 homeless person.
its a legal right here in Denmark not to be homeless.. you legit have to tell the government that you dont want help of any kind, no job, no funding to get off the streets and for food etc. As its way more expensive to have people being homeless here, than it is to get them suited and ready for a job where they in their taxes like everyone else pay back to the community.
Japanese people are a homogeneous bunch of net contributors, so the more you have them, the better things are. American gibs-me-dats are net negative, so the more you have of them, the shittier things get. Pretty simple stuff.
@@cryptictgs9490 Denmark has a population of 1,000,000 people attempting to illegally migrate into the country.
That is to say, we have a lot more illegal immigrants living in the US than Denmark has as a total population.
Point being it’s just silly to bring up Denmark, or Sweden, or Norway or whatever as “more successful” than the US. It’s not even comparable, your total populations are like a medium sized city in the US lol.
I visited Toyko a few times for work/holiday and love that city. As you say, it's spotlessly clean everywhere. People are really polite and courteous, and there's very little crime. You can literally leave your phone on a table in a restaurant, and nobody will steal it. It's expensive to live there though.
@@Stabby666 There’s very little crime because it’s a totalitarian police state and you’re on camera everywhere you go. Not because Japanese people are inhumanly polite and perfect beings.
thank u for trying to help ppl, i pray that this will take a huge amount of success at helping ppl kick the habit and helping them change their lives in rehab
To help drug/alcohol addicts and the the mentally ill that would mean violating their rights. This group makes up most of what we defined as “homeless”. Nearly all will not voluntarily seek help. The leftist go to war if we forcibly gave medical assistance. Instead, the Left makes it easier for these people to destroy themselves.
The situation in San Francisco is out of control
The true homeless accept help, the drug addicted don’t. Quit calling them homeless. It’s F’ing ridiculous already