Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk – Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed California and they did it on purpose. They strive to import as many illegal migrants as possible; they've created and fostered the homelessness and let it fester. California is now a socialist disaster and the further destruction of the economy is just what they've wanted. PATRICIA McCARTHY
"They
will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in
Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion. They have nothing
but contempt for us who must endure the consequences of our communities being
intruded upon by gangs, drug dealers and human traffickers. These
people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome
them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
San Francisco is a disaster about which
Nancy Pelosi she cares nothing. It is a city ravaged
by drug abuse, homelessness, rampant crime and all the other scourges
of leftism. She lives extravagantly in her gated mansion. She
lives a life of wealth and privilege in city suffering
a civilizational collapse created and orchestrated by
Homeless Deaths Rise in San Francisco During Lockdown, But Not Due to Coronavirus
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Deaths have soared among the homeless population in San Francisco during the coronavirus, but not due to the virus directly.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday: “Forty-eight homeless people — an average of six per week — died in San Francisco between March 30 and May 24, according to Dr. Barry Zevin, director of the Department of Public Health’s Street Medicine Team. For comparison, 14 people died in the same time period last year.”
The causes, pending official confirmation, may have more to do with the lockdown than the coronavirus itself, as many homeless people had less access to medical services and other needs.
An even more important factor may simply have been drug overdoses, as there was an “explosion of fentanyl on San Francisco’s streets” over the past two years, the Chronicle notes.
San Francisco, like other cities in California, initially sought to move homeless people indoors to avoid the coronavirus. But as evidence emerged that the virus was more easily spread among people sharing space indoors, the city began encouraging people to stay outside, where they could practice “social distancing” more easily.
The Chronicle notes: “The number of tents and makeshift structures throughout the Tenderloin neighborhood exploded by 285% between January and May, according to city data. The city as a whole saw a 71% increase in tents and structures during that period.”
In Los Angeles, officials recently reversed a policy of moving homeless people indoors to recreation centers in residential areas. The policy had faced local opposition, especially as it appeared to conflict with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
San Francisco also opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp near City Hall earlier this week, with tents spaced widely.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Poll:
72% Of San Francisco Residents Say Bay Area Quality Of Life Has Declined
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/25/poll-72-san-francisco-residents-say-bay-area-quality-life-declined/
The Napa Valley Register published
the results of a poll which found a shockingly high percentage of people living
in the Bay Area feel it is on the decline. That was especially true in San
Francisco where 72% felt the city was on the decline because of the high cost of living, traffic, and homelessness:
The dissatisfaction spreads across political parties and county
lines, according to the poll of 1,568 registered voters in five counties. Just
7 percent of respondents said life has gotten better here in the past five
years, and 23 percent said it’s stayed about the same.
Two-in-three renters sensed a decline in quality of life. And 64
percent of homeowners said things had gotten worse, despite massive and
historic gains in property values and personal wealth since 2012.
San Francisco residents showed the most displeasure, with 72
percent saying life in the Bay Area has soured in recent years.
Given the pessimism, it’s not
surprising that a lot of people are thinking about going somewhere else:
It’s so bad that about 44 percent say they are likely to move
out of the Bay Area in the next few years, with 6 percent saying they have
definite plans to leave this year…
About two-thirds of blue collar workers said they were likely to
leave the region, far more than white collar professionals (43 percent) and
service workers (44 percent). And more than half of the Latino residents and 7
in 10 black residents polled said they planned to move in the next few years.
The Register spoke to one resident
who commutes up to 90 minutes each way to his job in the city. Diego Vela said
his friends back home were envious of his salary but don’t really appreciate
the problems that come with it. “It looks nice until you factor in reality,” he
said.
Part of that reality isn’t just the
traffic, it’s the petty crime and homeless people using the trains and the
streets as a drug den and a bathroom. Gov. Newsom has proposed spending an additional $500 million to
deal with the problem but it’s uncertain whether that will happen. Even if it
does, there’s no guarantee it will help. A lot of the people living on the
streets are there because they have significant drug or alcohol problems. Given
a choice between getting clean or staying on the streets a lot of them will
choose the latter.
MEX MURDERS MOTHER IN PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA
HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM'S ! SANCTUARY ! CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO!
Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex crimes, and 4,000 violent k illings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally k illed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now.
SAN FRANCISCO IN MELTDOWN
THE CITY OF DIANNE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM and NANCY
PELOSI IS NOW ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST DISASTERS COMPARABLE TO MEXICO’S SECOND
LARGEST CITY OF LOS ANGELES!
May
19, 2019
larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this
ugly
umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in
2017
day. Other low-level offenses, including
drug dealing, street
harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public
intoxication,
simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant.
Many in law enforcement blame the crime wave on Proposition 47,
which in 2014 downgraded possession of illegal narcotics for personal use and
theft of anything under $950 in value from felonies to misdemeanors.
Anti-incarceration advocates disagree with that argument, but theft is
indisputably booming, and narcotics activity is exploding on sidewalks, parks,
and playgrounds. When compounded with other
troubles for which the city is now infamous (human feces, filth, and homelessness, which
is up 17 percent since 2017), San
Franciscans find themselves surrounded by squalor and disorder.
“A lot of people are ready to leave because the crimes are causing
depression,” says Susan Dyer Reynolds, editor-in-chief of the Marina Times, an independent
community newspaper. “Navigation centers” for the
homeless, says Reynolds, “are not sober
facilities, and people steal and break into cars to feed their habits. Crime will
go up. We know this.”
Property and other supposedly low-level crimes are intensifying
the destruction of the retail market. Landmark Mission District stores are shuttering, citing theft and lack of security. In April, CVS closed two
pharmacies that had been ravaged by constant shoplifting. Mom-and-pop
businesses, wracked by so-called minor losses, find it impossible to survive.
Empty storefronts dot once-vibrant neighborhoods.
“Property and low-level crimes shrink the space for everyday
people and enlarge them for the people committing them,” says Nancy Tung, a
criminal prosecutor for two decades, who is running for district attorney in
the 2019 election. “If we continue down this path, we will see more people
leave San Francisco.” Tung will face a competitive field of opponents,
including Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin, a socialist and the son of two
convicted Weather Underground murderers, who wants to reduce criminal
sentences. Keeping people out of jail is the new social-justice battle; in
March, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that San Francisco’s bail policy violates the rights of poor defendants and brings no public benefit.
Meantime, the poor bear the brunt of low-level and property
crimes. “In the Tenderloin we have vulnerable populations—people of color, the
most children, the second-highest concentration of elders, and they are held
hostage by drug dealers and theft, and the city tells them these crimes are not
that bad,” says Tung. “We are failing to protect them. The police do a good
job, because the criminals are caught, only to be released back on the streets
over and over.”
David Young is board president of his building, located in the
South of Market neighborhood. In a recent six-month period, four windows were
smashed by vandals, and replacement costs are huge. “The everyday wear and tear
on your psyche gets to you,” says Young. “When we walk out the door, we know
that there is a 100 percent chance we’ll see someone on drugs, in various
states of undress, blood on sidewalks, and discarded sharps. These are crimes
no one in city hall seems to care about. When you say something about it,
you’re called a fascist.”
Until recently, Young says, San Francisco was an amazing place to
live. “Now people look at the city as an abscess,” he says. “The cost of
housing compared to the quality of life is way off. Everyone is talking about
it. Crime has been ignored for so long, and it’s gotten so huge. Serial repeat
offenders have no problem making bail, especially drug dealers, as they see it
as the cost of doing business.”
Some citizens are attempting to fight back. Frank Noto
cofounded Stop Crime: Neighborhood for Criminal Justice Accountability after an onslaught of break-ins. Neighbors had come together
for an art project, which drew crowds—but also crime rings. First tourists’
cars were hit, then residents’ cars, and then homes. So the group started a
court-watch program. They attended hearings and observed decisions, and they
noted a casual judicial approach to these cases. Their presence didn’t go
unnoticed. Judges know that they’re being scrutinized; one actually recused
himself. “We have to take a stand,” says Noto. “We talked to one guy, an
electrician, who’s been burglarized six times, and all of his tools have been
stolen. All we want is for the DA and judges to take this seriously.”
As for the San Francisco Police, they’re doing their best. “It
looks like hell here, but we are getting those people,” says San Francisco
Police Department Captain Carl Fabbri, who helms the Tenderloin police station.
“In our district, robberies are down 17 percent, burglaries are down 28
percent, and auto break-ins are down 26 percent. These results don’t just
happen. We’re getting the people off the streets even for two days. When
they’re in jail, we see an impact.”
The community benefits when criminals are incapacitated by being
locked up, but Fabbri, like Tung and Noto, thinks that low-level criminals are
released too quickly. “We could be keeping them and be giving services while
they’re in jail,” says Fabbri. “It could really be effective. We need changes
in the law and policies, to amend Proposition 47 and strengthen quality-of-life
laws.” Bail, too, should remain in place. “There is so much support of the
police here, more than you’d think,” says Fabbri. “Social media has turned the
tide. If you follow what we’re doing, you can see the difference we are
making.”
San Francisco’s lure persists. “There are more people from
different parts of the world coming here to build a life all the time,” says
Young. “It’s unquestionably a great place for opportunity, and culturally what
we have is incredible. But we’re not solving our problems when we pretend
low-level crimes aren’t important.” Committed residents are digging in, but if
the city doesn’t start changing its approach, how long will they last?
Erica Sandberg is a widely published
consumer-finance reporter based in San Francisco and the author of Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing
Families. As a community advocate, she focuses on homelessness and crime
and safety issues.
Pelosi’s Pacific Heights needs refugees
Pacific
Heights is one of San Francisco’s most expensive neighborhoods. It boasts
dramatic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, and the blue
waters of San Francisco Bay.
Oracle
founder Larry Ellison is one of its more prominent and distinguished residents,
as is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
For all
its attractiveness as a neighborhood with its boutique shops and upscale
restaurants, Pacific Heights lacks two vital ingredients to make it a truly
great American neighborhood -- economic and cultural diversity.
That’s
why President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle “refugees” in sanctuary cities
should be embraced by Pacific Heights’ residents.
By
inviting the refugees now stranded at the border, Pacific Heights would not
only strengthen the sinew of its community but also contribute to alleviating
the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Our
strength is our diversity, and Pacific Heights lacks that strength. It is
culturally homogenous in a city that is diverse.
In San
Francisco, earning $117,000 a year or less makes you a low-income earner. Placing refugees in Pacific Heights
where housing and other costs are truly astronomical would require the
compassion and economic assistance of its residents. The former they have long
signaled, and the latter they are more than able to do.
Nancy
Pelosi lives in a walled mansion on a large expanse of land with
majestic views. Her mansion could easily house thirty or forty refugee
families, and she is hardly there. The expansive grounds could house dozens of
refugee families in tents.
Imagine
refugee children who survived the arduous and life-threatening journey from
Central America playing on Pelosi’s lawn while breathing the clean and
invigorating air from off the San Francisco coastline. Imagine alleviating
the humanitarian crisis by creating additional tent cities in Pacific Heights’
splendid parks.
Pelosi,
through her holdings in local restaurants and vineyards, is reputed to be one
of the largest employers of illegal labor in Northern California.
Consequently, the people she would compassionately house might be able to find
work in her network of businesses, especially her fabled vineyard on the banks of the Napa River.
Pelosi
also owns a second mansion in the Wine Country north of San Francisco. This too
is walled and could hold dozens of refugee families.
Neither
Pelosi herself nor the community of Pacific Heights can solve the refugee
problem, but they could set a standard that other wealthy and pro-sanctuary
communities could easily emulate.
Just a
few miles away from Pacific Heights, my liberal acquaintances “Ann” and
“Christopher” live in a complex that is more difficult to enter than the
Central Intelligence Agency. They both support the sanctuary status of San
Francisco and think the border wall, but not their complex’s barrier, is
immoral. Ann is a big DACA supporter although she has been seen adroitly
ignoring and bypassing the homeless that proliferate in her neighborhood and
sleep on her streets. Her compassion obviously has its limits.
Their
complex boasts extensive patios between the stacks of apartments. These could
host a dozen or more tents and port-a-potties that could alleviate the cagelike
situations at the border that they lament as deplorable. Although these
facilities would constitute an eyesore and block the light and view Ann and
Christopher currently enjoy, creating a tent community for refugees would
demonstrate the concern and compassion that people like Ann and Christopher
love to remind the rest of us that they possess.
Real
compassion in Western Civilization derives from the Biblical sense of the term
and means to share in the suffering and emotions of others. When Jesus saw his
friends weeping at the grave of Lazarus, He wept with them and acted.
Compassion means to suffer with and to be motivated to take immediate action to
alleviate the suffering of others.
So, let
the virtue-signaling liberals in sanctuary cities who incessantly lecture us on
their commitment to taking in everyone, liberals who find the rest of us
insensitive and heartless, let them manifest in deed the compassion they so
relentlessly embrace in word. Let them fulfill the Biblical imperative to
suffer with and take immediate action.
And they
will be rewarded for this in knowing that their upscale white communities can
find new strength in the economic and cultural diversity that the refugees will
provide. I am looking forward to the sprouting of tent cities in Pacific
Heights and elsewhere in the upscale parts of San Francisco. Diversity is truly
a community’s strength.
Abraham
H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science, University of
Cincinnati and a distinguished fellow with the Hyam Salomon Center
San Francisco Homelessness Rises
17% After City Spends $300 Million Annually to Solve Problem
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/05/18/san-francisco-homeless-rises-17-after-city-spends-300-million-annually-to-solve-problem-n2546530
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that homelessness in the Golden City has risen by
17% since 2017 as more and more people live in their vehicles and as the city
spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer money in an attempt to solve the
problem.
The
report released Thursday shows that studies "indicate at least 1,153 more
homeless people are in the streets compared with two years ago, when the
federal tally set the total number at 6,858." The number, 8,011, was
determined using federal guidelines. According to the paper, this number is
actually most likely much lower than the city's own estimation set to be released
in July which uses different standards for homelessness.
Accordingly,
"The number of people living in cars, RVs and other vehicles has risen by
45% since the last one-night count was taken two years ago."
“I’m
really disappointed in these numbers,” said Jeff Kositsky, head of the city
Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing told the Chronicle. “I can
make no excuses. These numbers are bad, and we have to own that.
San
Francisco holds the most homeless people in
the state of California, but
overall California has
an astonishing 24% of the nation's homeless
population.
San
Francisco Mayor Breed says the answer to the problem, despite spending $300
million each year, is simply more spending. The somewhat recently elected mayor
is calling for help from regional and federal resources. "We need more
resources from the federal and state governments for housing, period, and we need to build housing faster. S.F. can’t do it alone," she told the paper.
“There’s
not just one thing that’s going to fix this,” she added. “I know this count
will discourage a lot of people, but it’s important to remember where we were
last year. Last year you saw a lot of big tent camps — like at 13th Street, and
now we have a beautiful Navigation Center (shelter) there. We’ve helped 1,200
people out of homelessness since I came into office. We have made progress.”
The City by the Bay’s
homelessness problem is profound even for California, where as much as 30
percent of the country’s homeless live.
Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining
California’s already depleted public services while endangering our lives, the
rule of law, and public safety for all citizens. Arthur Schaper
The Federation
for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on
government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid,
and criminal justice system costs. STEVEN BALDWIN
THIS IS WHAT THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CORRUPTION AND OPEN BORDERS HAS DONE TO ONE CITY!
SANCTUARY CITY SAN FRANSISCO
AMERICA’S DUMPSTER CITY OF FILTH AND DRUG DEALERS
HOME TO SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, SENATOR KAMALA
HARRIS, REP. NANCY PELOSI and GAVEN NEWSOM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/monica-showalter-sanctuary-city-san.html
“It’s almost
impossible to get convicted in this city,” said [Sgt. Kevin] Healy,
who works in the Police Department’s narcotics division. “The message
needs to be sent that it’s not OK to be selling drugs. It’s not allowed
anywhere else. Where else can you walk up to someone you don’t know and
purchase crack and heroin? Is there such a place?”…
Police say drug
dealers from the East Bay ride BART into San Francisco every day to prey
on the addicts slumped on our sidewalks, and yet the city that claims to
so desperately want to help those addicts often looks the other way.
Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
According
to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s
2017 report, illegal
immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion
annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not
an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants
(including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of
their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration
costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are
a massive burden on American taxpayers.
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