I was in San Francisco for a while, and I feel so sad for the city. It is a beautiful city, but now a days, all I see is homeless, piss on the roads, drugs, needles. There are some good areas, but most of the downtown and touristy areas are like that. I pass by civic center bart station every day (5+ years now), and there are people standing there selling drugs (often youth 18+ or early 20s), and there are never police there, ZERO times I saw police catch someone. I think the whole city is pretty much corrupt, law enforcement and justice department included. It need a huge political reform with law enforcement and justice department that have great integrity, and I think thats the only way to save the city.
I’ve been visiting a bunch of cities in the past year and it’s not just SF that’s like this.
I don’t know if income inequality is necessarily the cause but I do know it has drastically gotten worse in the past 15 years and US income inequality is now going to be the worst it has ever been in 120 years.
