Here’s S.F.’s plan to make streets safer downtown this holiday season

What I've seen from the current "flood": the streets inside the zone being looked after became cleaner, safer-feeling, and had a dramatic reduction of strung out drug users and passed out people and tents.

But, the area just outside the zone being looked after got noticeably worse in terms of garbage, obviously intoxicated persons, and encampments.

So I mean, yeah I like being in the nicer bit because it's nicer (duh) but it's truly just shuffled things over to other blocks. I kinda feel bad for the other blocks, and I definitely feel frustrated that things haven't actually improved for the folks on the street, they appear to have just been relocated :/

This seems like a cosmetic half-measure for an endemic problem––which is pretty much how we've tried to solve our homelessness and crime issues over the past 2 decades. Genuinely unclear what could fix any of it or how successful we'd be even if we had the perfect recipe to do so.

Can these ambassadors do anything to stop people who are actively shitting on the streets, like if they see someone doing that do they have recourse? If they see someone shooting heroin? If someone is ransacking a Walgreens?

Well, let’s me guess, some politicians friend got awarded tens of millions of dollars for a contact to do this campaign.