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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel for this guy.  What a nightmare SF has become.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-lost-my-temper-san-francisco-has-lost-its-mind-collier-gwin-police-crime-50d9bacf[/quote]

It’s behind a paywall. Basically an owner of a store and neighboring stores in SF calls social services hotline 50 times over 25 days to report a mentally ill woman. But when social workers or police showed up they said they couldn’t move her or do anything.

A tpolice report of the incident, local merchants described her as “severely mentally ill” and noted that she often “steals food from restaurants, defecates openly in front of their businesses, performs sex acts upon herself publicly, screams at merchants and passersby and spits on people when they get close to her.’’

So the business owner who was trying to clean in front of his store with a hose reached his breaking point and sprayed her with water to get her to move.

He was the one arrested, booked and ordered to do community service.[/quote]

This is just pathetic.  Absolutely ridiculous.  
He cannot get any help from the city, and when he tries to deal with the issue since the city won't, he gets arrested.  
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This is not a city of sf thing. This is is a how we deal with mentally ill thing and exists everywhere. You can't just lock up mentally ill people forever. They still have rights. And somwhere the decision as made to not warehouse these people against their will as it used to be done. And while you can argue that the current state is untenable, there is no immediate solution to the problem.

And again, this is not a SF issue alone. [/quote]
If she was defecating on the sidewalk, and masturbating in a public area, those are cause for arrests for indecency.  [/quote]

The key is "if" and unless they have proof of it, it's a he said/she said. Cops aren't just going to arrest people w/o proof. And unfortunately, this is just hwo it is.

We were side swiped, egregiously, by a commercial vehicle. Had eye witnesses. The driver denied it. No one was charged b/c it was he said/she said. Same thing. 
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