938 crimes per square mile in SF [1] It will never get better, you cannot build a moat big enough to insulate yourself there.
[1] https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
[1] https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
[Yes /sarcasm obviously]
But on a serious note, mental health and addiction is not solved by prisons.
eg: https://drexel.edu/uhc/resources/briefs/BCHC%20Drug%20Overdo...
I'd say the reason it is more visible in SF is due to a combination of the density, walkability, and policies that don't hide the problem as much behind locked doors.
And it doesn't have to be jail if they have mental health or whatever issues. Just put the people that hurt other people in a place where they can't hurt other people.
The name doesn't matter call it what you want but when you take a stigmatized group widely considered criminal and a nuisance, not rightly or "correctly" part of society and put them in a place they are not free to leave atrocities are inevitable.
And why even them in the first place? Why is the conversation not about jailing a landlord who evicts someone in mental health crisis? They've caused plenty harm.
Again I'd ask why the problem is worse in SF than other American cities with better climates.
Either way though "this isn't working so let's do the other thing we know also doesn't work" isn't a very rigorous approach. I get the frustration but we know that wouldn't solve it, because it didn't solve it there and hasn't solved it anywhere.
What a commie answer, to blame the person who has actually supplied something because they can't keep providing forever.
Why not jail the neighbors, who obviously refused to start a go-fund-me to pay for the apartment?
Why not jail facebook employees for not making it mandatory to view said go-fund-me to pay for the apartment?
Why not jail the elementary school teacher who took a job in a different town many years ago, thus depriving the poor victim of a different path in life.
Why not simply jail anyone with more than the homeless person, to achieve full societal equity?
Calling me a commie is silly. I am a socialist come on. Y'all act like god revealed capitalism as his chosen economic system in 1991.
:D Honest question though if you're serious, is socialism just a temporary goal on the way to communism or is it a worthwhile final goal on its own?
> I didn't propose jailing anyone, I am an abolitionist.
More questions. Like, as a libertarian sort of thing, or a anarcho-utopian? In a society that has the concept of property? What would the society do, or expect a citizen to do, when someone was taking their food, or harassing them, etc?
> why the conversation, already about jailing someone, is only about jailing that person
Because the word tenant implies that they need to pay ongoing rent, and evictions are generally for failing to do so. Jail may be overboard in this situation (?) but applying sanctions to a person unwilling to return your property or leave your rental unit seems required or nobody would rent anything and all potential renters would suffer.
There doesn't seem to be any reason to punish the landlord, first because it's morally wrong to punish someone without a 'crime', and second because it wouldn't provide any class benefit to anyone either.
> Y'all act like god revealed capitalism as his chosen economic system in 1991.
No, we measure from when St Reagan personally tore down the wall in 1987.
What... a stupid measure.