Article from 2018 about it: https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-em...

> As members of the city's "Poop Patrol," workers are entitled to $71,760 a year, plus an additional $112,918 in benefits, such as healthcare and retirement savings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

> In August, the city announced that five staffers from the San Francisco Department of Public Works would soon roam the Tenderloin neighborhood — where nearly half of the city's homeless population is — in search of waste. The staffers will begin their efforts each afternoon equipped with a steam cleaner for sanitizing the streets

I'm willing to be that some digging would probably find this to be a gross misrepresentation (remember the McDonalds coffee? Where a cup of coffee was served too hot, in order to reduce costs, and that caused three degree burns to an old women? And that was spun as "the legal system is broken"?)

There is a concentrated effort to make CA, and especially SF, fail, as an excuse to regress. And when SF (and NYC, where there's also a similar effort) regress, the rest will follow. Just see what happened with the DA recall: since then, crime has risen, spend on policing has risen, and we jail more people unnecessarily.

Edit: ha! While I posted that, someone indeed found that number isn't the real comp. The number is $71k.

transplants voting on half baked empathic ideas they'll never be around to experience the consequence of? that's not a concerted effort to make a city fail

its not that complicated

Do NYC have this team? When I went there I saw a couple massive shits on those covered sidewalks

That's covered by DSNY's mandate. However, most waste on sidewalks in NYC is from pets, not humans (this doesn't make it better, obviously).

Reminds me of this scene in Billions: https://youtu.be/JLISv6WcUVY

No way that's real right? That's more than junior engineers at FAANG

Most engineers at FAANGs cost significantly more than 200K in net employer costs, which is what that number actually represents. As noted elsewhere in the thread, the actual take-home for these municipal workers is $71K, pre-tax.

Do junior FAANG engineers have to pick up human waste? IMO, "dirty work" deserves the paycheck.

Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…

> Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…

It's interesting to note which jobs get this treatment ("is X doing its job? The problem X supposedly solves isn't getting any better) and which jobs get the opposite treatment ("X is clearly necessary, because without them the problem X solves would be even worse).

I’d say the same thing about the billion+ a year the city spends on homeless “programs”