Wasting taxpayer dollars is what San Francisco does best

San Francisco is dropping out on tax income as residents have fled the town over the past a number of years. Given how the town wastes cash, it could be troublesome to argue that it was a foul factor.

Town’s Division of Public Well being paid researchers $500,000 to “decide the influence” of a “protected” drug consumption website referred to as the Tenderloin Middle “on the encompassing neighborhood,” based on the San Francisco Customary. Comparable “protected” drug facilities have, unsurprisingly, attracted drug addicts that make communities much less protected, with residents having to stroll over feces on the sidewalks and carry bats or tasers to guard themselves.

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The research, in fact, discovered that the town’s drug heart wasn’t harming the neighborhood, though “calls to the one-block span in entrance of the Tenderloin Middle elevated by 126% this yr — with a median of six calls per day — as in comparison with simply an 11% enhance citywide.”

How did researchers come to this conclusion? For the low value of $500,000, two folks walked across the neighborhood as soon as in 2018, 2019, and 2022. Additionally they decided that the town ought to spend more cash on extra drug websites.

That farcical “research” shouldn’t be even probably the most outrageous spending plan San Francisco has seen this yr. Town had deliberate to spend $1.7 million to construct one public bathroom. The undertaking would have taken three years to finish. The proposal was so embarrassing that even California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned it, and it was ultimately scrapped.

Once more, the town was planning to go forward with paying $1.7 million to construct a single public bathroom three years from now. Metropolis officers had even deliberate a public celebration for the undertaking earlier than it received mocked into cancellation. This was seen as one thing price celebrating, with no self-reflection from anybody concerned on the absurdly excessive price ticket.

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It’s telling that San Francisco leaders discover this stage of spending not simply acceptable however applause-worthy. It additionally explains why some 116,000 folks (or 2.5% of its inhabitants) fled the town in 2021. San Francisco officers are incompetent and wasteful. They’re virtually daring San Francisco residents to throw them out of workplace, or at the least no matter residents don’t take the primary U-Haul truck out of city.