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Was this a case of city workers (including police) pulling a lot of overtime prior to APEC, and that can only go on for a little while? Is there a labor shortage in SF for this kind of work at least?

I am especially interested in hearing actual current SF residents comment on whether or not this article is roughly speaking accurate.

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no, this is just instructions coming down from the tippy top to do something. The reality is that politicians do not want to ever risk a cataclysmic incident happening under their guard with a disenfranchised population, I guess especially in more conscionable regions where voters won't react. The same thing happens even in DC a lot (high aesthetics budget to keep it clean) - The crux is that they know it will go back to the way it was so if you're not going to solve it doesn't seem like a good use of resources, although I'm sure residents might disagree. The only other thing that can propel it is an incident such as what happened in Seattle shooting and such then they go in as well.

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