San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless | City Journal

San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless | City Journal:

• Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.

"Everyone’s on drugs here . . . and stealing,” an ex-felon named Shaku explains as he rips open a blue Popsicle wrapper with his teeth.
Shaku is standing in an encampment of tents, trash, and bicycles, across from San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church.
Another encampment-dweller lights a green crack pipe and passes it around. 
A few paces down the street, a gaunt man swipes a credit card through a series of parking meters to see if it has been reported stolen yet.
For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior..."
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