9 thoughts on “Left-Coast Lawlessness”

    2. Some of the proposals for “free” housing look a lot like prison only without the running water and guards to provide some minimal protection from the other inmates.

  2. I grew up watching Dragnet. LA is and will always be “The City”. SF is “The Shitty”.

  3. I once worked on a project headquartered in an apartment complex on Yucca Street in Hollywood, diagonally across the street from the iconic Capitol Records building. This was a long time ago, but even then the street was littered with drug needles, and stank of urine. A number of young women worked on this project, which demanded early arrival and late departure. I became an escort for them. A few times I was even freaked out by the people we encountered.

    Victor David Hanson has written extensively about the conversion of central California into a sub-Mexican s***hole. Environmental regulations are the first thing to go, ironically. While companies are held to impossible standards, illegals are given free rein to turn roadsides into garbage dumps of enormous extent.

    All of these things are the result of progressive policies. So I just have to ask: on what planet does this sort of thing constitute “progress”?

  4. Dunno Been to Seattle and San Fransisco recently. Both are really dependent on where you are, but seemed like San Fran for most part kept the Vagrants outside of the Tourist and Convention areas, where as Seattle the worse part is down by the water where the tourist go and the Methadone clinics are.
    In San Fransisco was able to walk by myself from the Fishermans wharf to Chinatown and back at 10 O clock at night with out being approached, By Contrast Walking down to Pike Market in Seattle with Family was aggressively Hassled by Pan handlers in the day.
    Just don’t be on foot in Tenderloin or Haight Ashbury

    1. In Seattle, they have to paint murals on all the walls so that they don’t get covered in graffiti. Honor among thieves and all. I imagine that will change once murals are viewed as products of corporate sellout or some such.

  5. I live in Portland, and there are tons of homeless people downtown, some of them crazy.

    I have not yet managed to see any public defecation or feces, though.

    So the CJ article seems to overstate, vs. SF where *everyone* seems to have seen poop on the streets.

  6. The homeless like to target weed factories. They will pick through the dumpsters looking for THC residue and trimmings. Some places acquire dog poop or manure to mix into their trash or will grind it up with some other filler.

    Many homeless have mental problems but there are also a lot who choose to live the hobo lifestyle. I don’t think throwing money and food at them will solve the issue and that any actual solution requires a societal or cultural change in how some groups raise their children. Popular culture also might play a role in images of family and society but one that is less direct than actual families.

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