Recovering From An Urban Binge

 ... how is it done?

Dig this.

SAN FRANCISCO - Whole Foods is closing their flagship San Francisco store on Monday at the end of business hours. 

Whole Foods told KTVU that the store on Market Street at 8th is shutting down for the time being because of employee safety concerns. A city supervisor calls the closure temporary. 

"To ensure the safety of our Team Members, we have made the difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being," a spokesperson for Whole Foods wrote in a statement. 

Now check out the location of the store on the San Francisco Poop Map.

Whole Foods is surrounded by an area where people are pooping on the street. Whole Foods doesn't set up shop in bad parts of town, they're a high-end retailer. That means that the high-end part of SanFran is covered in poop.

As noted in an earlier post, SF is well short of cops.

SanFran elected London Breed as mayor. She is a black woman, so they've got that going for them. Now that they've spent years hating on the cops, accusing them of racism and brutality and years weakening their law enforcement, they have so much crime, homelessness and drug use that Mayor Breed is asking the Feds for cops to help them clean up the sitch.

Mayor Breed and her buddies defunded the cops after trashing them for being racists. As a result, they're 540 cops short of full staffing. That means the SanFran police department is operating at about 75% combat strength. The increase in crime, drug use and homelessness suggest the enemy forces have, for the sake of discussion, doubled in that same time.

Now what?

This isn't an "own the libs" post. No American's life is improved when a major city falls into degeneracy and decay and SF is there. Seriously, now what?

Just like Jackson, MS, no one is going to come to rescue San Francisco. The rest of us all have our own problems to solve. They're going to have to do it themselves. They've got themselves into a real bind by wrecking their fixed assets.

Whenever I see things like this, I can come up with plenty of ways to solve the problem, but what I can't imagine is how the residents will find the will to do what needs to be done - warehousing the addicts, hosing down the streets and backing a seriously beefed-up and sometimes aggressive police force to arrest, convict and punish the criminals.

The people of SF are going to have to get over their social justice and racial justice hang-ups. Some of the perps will be Perps of Color. They need to be treated just like the Perps of Pallor.

Maybe the social justice thing is addictive and the people of SanFran are virtue junkies. You'd think they'd have to snap out of it at some point.

Jackson went without drinking water for a while and they didn't wake up after that. They're still on the race-race-race bandwagon. Maybe some places never get a clue.

I used to wonder how Argentina kept going through currency crises. How come they didn't learn their lessons? San Francisco and Jackson are showing how it happens.