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California and San Francisco sort of think of themselves as progressive policy leaders. | |
The homeless population in California is greater than the next five states combined in the country. | |
Since I moved there in 1992, there were always more homeless folks in the Bay Area and in San Francisco than other places, but it's quite different now. | |
There are people literally dying on the street. | |
There are people using open-air drug markets on the streets. | |
When you are walking your children to the playground, that's what you're dealing with. | |
In my last few months there, three times I called 911 because I thought somebody was dead on the street from having shot up. | |
I mean, you could see the hit right there. | |
That's not humane, not for the person using, not for the families that live there. | |
There is no justifiable reason to have a policy that allows that kind of human suffering. | |
And yet, it just keeps getting worse and worse. | |
I don't know why anybody is following the lead of San Francisco and California more broadly, but they are. |