SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In San Francisco, homeless tents, open drug use, home break-ins, and dirty streets have proliferated during the pandemic.
The quality of life crimes and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing have given residents a sense the city is in decline.
It’s caused even some residents of this famously liberal city to wonder if they’ve had too much.
A series of headline-grabbing crime stories about mobs of people smashing and grabbing luxury purses and daytime shootings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood have only exacerbated a general feeling of insecurity, helping fuel recall elections against local officials.
