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FreakyHijiki Esq.Jeff Ihaza
4/07/16 9:12pm
Lifelong San Francisco resident here:

It’s never been worse. Never. Do. Not. Move. Here.

SF has always had small space and therefore rich and poor frequently lived right on top of one another. section 8 housing has been across the street from hyper valuable properties just because of the lack of space. But the ethos was “Live and let live.” This was partly derived from the hippies who moved here back in the day, part derived from that it was always an immigrant town (among other countless factors). It really was kind of a beautiful thing.

That ethos has been completely shredded, sorry, #disrupted, by a class of newcomers who, as a class, simply have too much money, too few responsibilities, and an absolute lack of empathy or concern for their fellow citizens. This class has been enabled at every level by an equally ethically bankrupt political class who have absolutely kowtowed to every whim that any doofus with a startup hoodie and enough command of Ted Talk vocabulary to get by. No protectionfor Ellis Act evictions, no corresponding increase in social services to deal with newly homeless people. Just platitudesand a minimal acknowledgment that a problem even exists.

The result? Enormous tent cities on city sidewalks featuring addicts openly shooting up. For reference, I grew up in a heroin heavy part of SF during the heroin boom of the 90's and never saw people shooting up in plain view; I saw it four times this week.

The general response from our new tech working neighbors? Whiny open letters to the mayor, more aimless police harassment and EXTREME resentment on all sides. The general attitude is that the existence of poor people is an engineering problem that can be #hacked with #innovation, rather than a genuine moral crisis of our own making.

And what benefits has rolling out the red carpet for the Internet Inc. produced? A giant overvaluation, bubble, ab epidemic of labor abuses (“independent contractors” lol) and every smarmy Winklevoss level huckster under the sun pitching you their dumb app at every cocktail party. Also the internet kinda sucks, and is a giant waste of time, generally speaking.

All this for the low, low price of $5,000 a month. P.S. Your neighbors are renting their place on AirBnb and you will be kept awake by partying bros nearly every day.

The only reason I stay is that doing so allows me to be close to my family. But I just can’t in good cconscious recommend that anyone come here.

Go anywhere else. Kansas City is really underrated. So is Louisville. Go there.
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  Locomotive JonesFreakyHijiki Esq.
  4/07/16 9:19pm
  All this for the low, low price of $5,000 a month.
  
  I’m sure you have some $500 bills laying around to dry those tears with, you rich bastard.
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  nonicknamephilFreakyHijiki Esq.
  4/07/16 9:29pm
  Stay the fuck out of Portland too. Try Pittsburgh, or Des Moines
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Netflix and ShillJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 9:00pm
A few years ago I would have believed the police. Now when there are contradictory accounts, I assume the police are lying, and they have no one to blame for that but themselves.

Police departments from coast to coast have demonstrated that they have a systemic cultural problem and have a different rule book for themselves. I believe there should be one set of rules for everyone.

Good police officers have an obligation to speak out against the bad apples in their departments, just as moderate Muslims have an obligation to speak out against the extreme elements within their religion.
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  handmadeproteinshakeNetflix and Shill
  4/07/16 9:18pm
  Anytime a police officer shoots someone not holding a gun they are wrong. I do not understand how they shot him with bean bags and then still had to shoot him. Taser? Time? It’s amazing that a bunch of men armed to the teeth with the intent to take on the state can occupy a building for a month without the police taking forceful action . . . but a homeless man gets 5 minute to decide his fate.
  
  No way this is justified . . . ever.
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  Madge SmurtzNetflix and Shill
  4/07/16 9:28pm
  Good police officers have an obligation to speak out against the bad apples in their departments, just as moderate Muslims have an obligation to speak out against the extreme elements within their religion.
  
  Troll score 7.5/10 (you really put in an effort)
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vansauJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 9:00pm
I’m a third-generation SF native. Almost none of my childhood friends live in the city any more... they’ve all been priced out.

I live and work in Marin, just north of the city. My girlfriend lives in the Mission, though. I stayed over two days ago and my car was broken into overnight. SF PD tried to discourage us from filing a police report because “it’ll just drive up your deductible.” They were genuinely resistant to someone filing a report about a crime that actually happened.

It’s... weirdly heartbreaking. I get more and more anxious every time I drive into the city. Traffic keeps getting worse, the city’s soul/personality I grew up with continues to erode away, and now I don’t want to park on the street anymore because a) I’m tired of having to replace my windows and b) it’s obvious the cops just don’t care.
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  Taint Nuttinvansau
  4/07/16 9:48pm
  I stay in the Haight, most people leave their cars unlocked to prevent break-ins. That way you only have to worry about homeless dudes taking dumps in your backseat.
  
  It’s pretty much every man for himself around here now. No room in the jails, cops just shuttle the problem people around between the Haight, TL and Mission. I had a bum throw a cup of coffee on me last month, I socked him up and then flagged down the cops, they gave him an “admonishment” and a ride to the other side of town. One of the neighborhood homeless ringleaders was posting up in front of my building for a few months awhile back, solid guy... one day he shanked somebody well enough that they had to hose the blood off the sidewalk, an hour or two after I started work. He was back in the same spot hours before I clocked out. He also was sentenced to an “admonishment.”
  
  You can’t afford court fees, you’re not getting locked up for anything short of putting somebody in a coma in this town.
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  Vincenzo71Taint Nuttin
  4/07/16 11:25pm
  Hey! Haight resident here too! I have a music studio in the TL, and a guy was outside of it shaking his weiner, peeing, and waving his bowling ball sized scrotum around (end stage hydrocele). He later started waving a knife. I called the tenderloin PD’s non-emergency line, and they arrived soon enough....and the same exact experience happened. “Oh, yup, this guy’s been causing trouble all day. Don’t know what to tell you.” It’s not up to them though, the bums end up in 850 bryant and are out the next day at the latest, right back on the street.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 8:33pm
San Francisco sounds like it really sucks now? And that this is mostly Google’s fault?
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  Lil Tuffyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  4/07/16 8:38pm
  In that “google” is a generic term for the tech industry. Like Xerox or Kleenex.
  
  The tech boom is the definitely the catalyst that has enable landlords, real estate speculators and countless other vampires to suck the soul out of SF.
  
  I live two block away from the shooting. We used to worry about gangs killing us but now it’s just the cops. Good times.
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  ShizChizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  4/07/16 8:39pm
  How else are they going to convince everyone to move to their super awesome internet city
  
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tito_swinefluJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 8:33pm
The cops in SF are really ramping up the bad shit this year. It’s usually only one racist scandal and two unjustified shootings. They’re on track to double both.
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  handmadeproteinshaketito_swineflu
  4/07/16 8:54pm
  I moved back to this city after 8 years away. It’s not the same and change has not been for the better. 15 dollar sandwich and getting shot for not wearing the right “techie” hoodie doesn’t woo me the way it used to.
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  ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boketito_swineflu
  4/07/16 9:27pm
  Seems those performance metrics are paying off! They’ll lick their homeless problem in no time.
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icanneverremembermyburnercodeJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 10:09pm
Two eyewitnesses who say they were within 10 feet of the shooting

Nope, sorry. Calling bullshit right there. Maybe earlier in the day or after the shooting, but no one stands ten feet from someone who has guns drawn on them. It doesn't happen.
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  Steven Reedicanneverremembermyburnercode
  4/07/16 10:21pm
  “They didn’t wait for anything. It all happened so fast.”
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  icanneverremembermyburnercodeSteven Reed
  4/07/16 10:28pm
  Yes, so fast they were able to stand there and watch an interaction between to parties who couldn't understand eachother first.
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WeaselsareUsJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 11:15pm
In South Dakota the police shot and killed a Native American man with a stick. Of course it was ruled “justified.” Because the people that make that decision are members of law enforcement themselves. I worked with young men and women with severe behavioral problems for over 15 years. I’ve been in situations where I felt threatened, I’ve dealt with people that were bigger and stronger than me. I never carried a weapon. Once we tracked three young men who had run away to a local rancher’s barn, where they were holed up in a loft and holding a pitchfork and an ax. I sat down and talked it out with them and we all had a cigarette. Sometimes your best “weapon” is the ability to reason.
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  LooseSasquatchWeaselsareUs
  4/08/16 12:07am
  Unfortunately that skillset is literally weeded/trained out of the police force. When in doubt they shoot first and ask questions later, ESPECIALLY when someone doesn’t respond to their commands
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bleedcoltsblueJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 8:50pm
Seems like 90% of minorities killed by cops are alleged to do the following:

‘Lunged’, ‘Charged’, ‘went for the officers weapon’, ‘reached for his waistband’, or ‘pointed a weapon at the officer’ (rarely actually firing).

Amazing how so many unique encounters all are so similar in the police reports....
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weebleswobbleJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 8:35pm
Any officer caught submitting a false report should be charged with a felony — that includes the ones directly involved in the incident and any shit head colleagues who lie for them. Fire them, fine them, and send them to jail for years. Maybe that will serve as a deterrent seeing as the whole “don’t murder the people you are sworn to protect” thing doesn’t seem to stop them.
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TakahashiJeff Ihaza
4/07/16 8:45pm
Maybe this guy has a second job as an SF cop?
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