Yeah it’s a sad state of affairs. It’s the stripping of freedom that I can’t believe people live with. If you can’t leave your home without considering you might be the target of a crime, you’re not free.

The mentality I don’t understand is the whole it’s “part and parcel” for living in a city. That it’s normal for crime to creep around, for litter and feces to be spread, and for drugged out people to be laying in the streets.

That’s not normal and it’s considered unacceptable in many places. Places for free than SF nowadays.