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Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:18PM (#26937646)
> I've spoken with several people working directly with the homeless

And somehow this makes you an expert or informed on the matter?

> 95% of the people on the street are not from SF

This is likely the case for every metro in the world. And?

> well known that SF has drug tourists

Facts and research, please. You seem keen to peddle the homeless as drug-addled perpetrators stereotype.

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:21PM (#26937666)
Yes, speaking with experts makes one informed.

Even the Mayor of SF has talked about how SF has drug tourists and how they need to be prevented from receiving services. You don't seem to be very informed about SF.

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:26PM (#26937706)
Every single public service is abused by some percentage of people using it. So? The mayor holding a press conference or speaking to the press to score points doesn't make it any more credible than the Reagan's bullshit about drugs in the 80s.

I'm not interested in the incredibly small percentage of people exploiting the system that isn't helping them in the first place, but the large percentage of homeless - transient or long term - that need services but are fought every part of the way by ignorance like this.

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:34PM (#26937757)
Its not an incredibly small number of people exploiting the system, its 95% of people in this system.
Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:40PM (#26937806)
> its 95% of people in this system

Pulling numbers out of thin air doesn't make them true.

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:01PM (#26937935)
That number came from an expert.

They also asserted that if our local DA actually did something about dealing on the streets we'd lose that same number of homeless people and they'd return to wherever they came from before SF, or go to Oakland. SF has turned itself into an "attractive nuisance" due to our unchecked open air drug markets.

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:28PM (#26938103)
> That number came from an expert.

I'm sure it did, and it's not just completely made up with absolutely no corroborating evidence to back it up.