Well Griffith Park and Observatory are named after someone who shot his wife in the face and spent less than two years in San Quentin. LA was the wild west not that long ago.
LA named it Griffith Park years before the shooting, which was from his wife and him donating the land. but curiously it seems the theater and observatory were named for him years after the shooting. Strange world
IIRC, they refused when he was alive. But his will left a good chunk of his fortune to the city under the condition they build on the land in his name. The construction also lined up with Griffith's son becoming president of the city's parks commission. Not sure what kind of relationship he had with his parents.
The Griffith family also went on to sue the city when they violated their land deals building the Toyon landfill.
That's why you don't name places after living people.
And then ideally wait a hundred years for all the dirt to come out.
Ain’t nobody have time for that.
Could just not name things after people.
I vote for abstract geometric concepts.
Or we accept that all people do good things and bad things, and that a very good thing someone does might inspire others to name a thing after them without any implied endorsement of other bad things that same person has done or will do.
What a terrible person. The way he treated his wife and his son. Hope at least his son got a good education.