Opinions like these involving the use of corporal punishment and ad hominem (antisocial criminal trash) are part of the reason why the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction and the bay now lives in a liberal dystopia
For example, it’s not possible for me to solve the systemic issue of drugs and mental health in order to stop public defecating. It is possible for me to arrest the person for pooping in the street.
I think we should do both at the same time. But we certainly shouldn’t arrest people for pooping because they have a systemic issue invisible handsing them toward public pooping.
People can be trash for different reasons. And if a systemic issue makes someone do trashy behavior, then they are still trashy.
It seems to be missing the point to point out lack of empathy for arresting poopers.
In what way does using harsh language to describe harsh people cause DAs to not enforce crimes? How does one thing directly cause the other?
"Harsh language" isn't the problem, it's the framing and lack of empathy for these people.
Wasn't this the argument which lead to the current policy positions? Which seem to have not helped?
15 years in and no one in my family has been a victim to any crime.
> 15 years in and no one in my family has been a victim to any crime.
The reason provided above is as anecdotal as the one provided by GGP, and cannot be solely used to build any arguments/conclusions from.
There's also an axiomatic conflict between this & GP: The general neighborhoods that glerk and random314 live in may not be the same neighborhoods, resulting in the conflicting self-reports written above. It is possible that random314 lives in one of the nicer neighborhoods that glerk mentions offhandedly, and unless shown otherwise, has not been to FiDi or SOMA:
> > > I think a lot of people live in their nice neighborhood bubble and have never stepped foot in FiDi or SOMA.
Just went to SF for the first time in 5 years. So much worse. Wasn’t great in 18, but back then I walked across Golden Gate Park alone during the day and it was beautiful. I cannot imagine now. Market st is hell.
The societal dysfunctions are because tech ppl, the ones who ask the laypeople of the world to allow them to fix all their problems, have built a literal dystopia of social problems in the place where they have the most actual wealth and power to build something else. There is no greater argument for the myopia of VC-tainted tech solutionism than SF itself.