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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by dminvs on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:40PM (#25004654)
This is partly because the private security force employed by the wealthy Bass brothers forcefully (and sometimes violently) discourage the homeless from existing in downtown Fort Worth, especially the Sundance Square area.

I used to work downtown (Oil & Gas Commerce building) and became friends with the night-shift security guard, who told some really shocking stories about how the Bass goons would drag the homeless into alleys and beat them, simply for existing in downtown Ft. Worth.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by urbansix on Friday November 06, 2020 @08:59AM (#25007618)
If your security guard at the O&G/C Building said that, then you were being told a wild story.

There is NO WAY Sundance Security would do that. I personally know the security team members and how professionally they are trained, and I know the Basses and how they operate.

That's a horrible thing to say. And it is sad that you or anyone would actually believe it.

It's a tall tale that a late shift guard might enjoy telling, but it isn't the truth.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by austincheney on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:46PM (#25004690)
That might be 0.1% of the city’s land area. Not really a significant cause. If you applied that exact same factor to Austin there would still be a ton of homeless people everywhere.
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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by RhodesianHunter on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:03PM (#25004772)
The homeless tend to congregate where they're treated better.

The cities that treat the homeless better, when confronted with a new influx of homeless, work to confront the problem with more spending and social programs, and the cycle continues.

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