
“Than you’ve ever seen?” asked the reporter.

“Growing up here, that was something that wasn’t the norm.” “I will say that there’s more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen,” said Breed. In 2018, San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, held a walking tour with television cameras and newspaper reporters in tow. The message was a hit, so much so that the increased community and social pressure was enough to reverse the dog-poop-in-parks problem with minimal police enforcement. Shellenberger opens with the story of a 1970s SF candidate who campaigned on a message of public cleanliness, promising stronger punishments for owners who failed to pick up after their dogs. San Francisco used to be one of the safest and most beautiful cities in the world. We walked faster until the man found other people to verbally assault. FOR!” and started walking faster toward us. When we turned around to look at him, he screamed at us, “What are you looking for, huh! WHAT.

We were eating ice cream and walking along Valencia Street when a psychotic man, perhaps about thirty years old, began following us and screaming obscenities. We were all looking forward to a relaxing dinner. After a couple of hours, we decided to go out to eat in the Mission. There was garbage, old food, and feces everywhere.

It was the usual scenes of people sitting against buildings and injecting drug needles into their necks and feet. We first went to check in on the open-air drug scenes in the Tenderloin and United Nations Plaza. In the spring of 2021 two colleagues and I went to San Francisco. It builds off the kind of stories familiar to most Bay Area residents: San Fransicko is subtitled “Why Progressives Ruin Cities”. One candidate, author and activist Michael Shellenberger, objected to my characterization of him, so I read his book San Fransicko to learn more and decide whether I owed him an apology. Last month I discussed the platforms of twenty-six candidates for California governor.
