San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers in stunning tough-on-crime shift

The only thing that drug screening welfare applicants has ever done is shown that the percentage of welfare applicants that use drugs is much lower than the general population.

You fucking morons are literally adopting Florida's failures from a decade ago.

Drug treatment is important, yes, but making it a precondition for benefits will absolutely hurt the most vulnerable. If there was actually enough affordable housing available for everyone that needs it, there would be far less of a need for this kind of policy. It is well documented that providing housing before anything else sets people up for success. If someone has been living on the streets and suddenly has housing available, their life will improve so drastically thanks to the job and social opportunities that will become available, also making it less likely that drug abuse will continue.

This seems like a cop out to me. Just build houses for fuck’s sake.

Breed has been on the wrong side of so many issues. Most recently she made an incredibly tone-deaf statement denouncing the city council’s vote against the genocide in Gaza. I’m done with her.

One of the worst parts of this, and one that will get people killed, is they loosened the restrictions on police chases. Now police can chase cars for crimes where there's no longer a threat of violence like robbery through the second densest city in the country. People are so indoctrinated by copaganda that they think police chases always end up with the cop catching the bad guy instead of how they usually end, with a fatal crash.

"tough on crime" is just a euphemism for authoritarian

The NIMBY class will always project its insecurity more greatly than the remainder of the populace.

This is the opposite of the advice in the book, The End of Policing. Book was so good that I bought copies for people close to me.

Just take care of people. We can afford to. It costs less than enforcement costs.

People vote left wing

Left wing policies make city better

Better city attracts more people

More people increases costs

Increased costs filter for rich people

Rich people vote authoritarian.

Local tech billionares are recently dumping more money into the city politics to shift it ot the right. The CEO of Y combinator, a hugely influential silicon valley incubator is notoriously antagonist and recently drunkenly said the local city council should "die slow."

Hasn't the failed war on drugs shown the narrative that drugs cause the homelessness and crime and are not just another symptom of the underlying problems is a lie?

Guess not to the general public.

FUCKING CHRIST CAN SAN FRAN EVER RECOVER FROM FEINSTEIN

Policing a certain demographic more always works

So if they test positive for drugs, that means you'll set them up with support programs, right? Treat the underlying issue, correct? Not just write them off and let the problem grow even more..... right???

This is what happens when less than 25% of the population comes out to vote.

Oh good, I would hate to see a vulnerable struggling poor person get support that they don’t “deserve” because they didn’t fix their life yet.

Sincerely, 1/3 of this country. :/

Ah so the real estate developers are finally ready to finish their gentrification efforts. They must've forced out the last remaining owners in the area so now they can crack down and turn it into overpriced bullshit

When the city government spends two decades allowing hordes of homeless dope fiends to regularly shit on the streets, chase their fellow citizens down with machetes, and litter every nook and cranny of your town with syringes, the general public typically reacts by gravitating towards civic leaders who speak and act like Dirty Harry

I say this as a propent of repealing all drug laws, and treating addiction like the psychological ailment that it is

These Trump areas need to just fall into the ocean. It is sick what they want to do to poor people.

I wonder how much money would be saved if they stopped means testing the poor and spent all their money helping people instead of paying cops to terrorize them.

I stand corrected!

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Finalllllyyy

The city that walks through literal human shit is finally tired of that.

So it's trying to get rid of the rest of its poor people basically