San Francisco Mayor promises crackdown on homeless camps
San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell vowed to crackdown on homeless camps in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday:
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“Enough is enough,” Farrell said Friday. “We have offered services time and time again and gotten many off the street, but there is a resistant population that remains, and their tents have to go.”
When it comes to tent camps, Farrell added, “We have moved as a city from a position of compassion to enabling (unacceptable) street behavior, and as mayor I don’t stand for that.”
As a supervisor in 2016, Farrell wrote the voter-approved anti-tent Proposition Q, giving city officials the right to remove tents if they give campers 24 hours notice and offer them shelter.
As Ed pointed out in February, an investigation by a local NBC affiliate found the city was covered in trash, used drug needles, and human feces:
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