You and others can believe that those of us who feel this way are noncontributing leeches or don't belong here or what have you, but I am a Google engineer who works hard in this industry. There are things that are downright unfair in this world and the continuous displacement of peoples, many of whom have had little opportunity and faced constant oppression, ranks high among them in my book.
The next thing that would need to happen is that the police department gets extra funding because the two suburban cops currently there have neither the manpower nor the expertise to deal with the increase in crime.
The locals tend to vote against either, and who can blame them? It's the system that's at fault, especially the fact that a substantial amount of taxes is raised and spent locally.
Being a politician gives you an entirely different set of powers, because you get to decide what people get to vote on. You can put facts on the ground. "Direct action" also puts facts on the ground and gives some balance to the political process.
So let's be specific: did the comment you just write try to communicate your belief that throwing a brick through the back of a bus full of people "puts facts on the ground" and "gives some balance" to the process?
Voting
Circulating a petition
Doing nothing
Throwing a brick through a bus window
Sending death threats
Spraypainting "[ethnicity] GO HOME" on someone's house
Leaving a burning cross on their lawn
Quote from OA
"...one in ten mortgages was foreclosed in San Pablo. At the same time San Francisco’s rate of foreclosure was a mere 2 percent."
Those rates are huge! At the worst of the recession, we hit about one per 300 in the UK, and that was considered bad enough for urgent action to support arrears and find ways for people to restructure their debt.