No 911, no need for San Francisco

Todd Starnes reported, "If you’ve got an emergency in San Francisco, don’t expect the police to answer the call.

"After the liberal city’s vaccine mandate took effect Monday, at least 120 police officers and even more city officials were put on leave, according to the local media.

"Democrat Mayor London Breed won’t budge, despite officers citing religious reasons and concerns about the vaccine. Instead, she told reporters the city’s human resource department will step up to the plate to help people."

Public Enemy sang 30 years ago, "911 Is A Joke In Your Town."

That was a complaint about ambulances refusing to go into black neighborhoods because of high crimes.

911 is now a joke in San Francisco. Instead of the police, Breed is sending social workers, if you can figure out which agency to call.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported two weeks ago, "S.F. will soon have 10 different teams to respond to crises on the streets. But it's not always clear how to call them for help."

911 was created to solve this problem of trying to figure out who to call.

Democrats are bringing back the problem.

The story said, "Supervisor Hillary Ronen has called for a hearing to figure it all out. By her count, there are 10 different teams run by at least three city departments under a variety of acronyms — HOT, SORT and SCRT (called “skirt” by city officials) to name a few — that all have somewhat similar goals, but varying hours, client capacities and ways of contacting them.

"Ronen got the idea for the hearing after two recent heartbreaking encounters. On a trip to Grocery Outlet, she saw an elderly man who was hunched over with his pants down. He’d soiled himself and reeked. On another outing, Ronen encountered a different elderly man screaming in his wheelchair near the Embarcadero. She asked him what he needed, and he said a trip to the hospital.

"Ronen said she was reluctant to call 911, not wanting to involve police and not considering either incident a life-or-death medical emergency. So she did what she usually does in those situations: texted the fire chief, an inside track not available to the vast majority of San Franciscans. The chief sent an ambulance for both men."

Instead of getting rid of 911 and the police, San Francisco should get rid of these other 10 agencies.

This is only the latest in a string of devolutionary policies that are bringing the town down. The most infamous was the poop-in-the-streets policy that turned San Francisco into a third-world city. 

In the 20th century, backward savages in hellholes on other continents defecated in the middle of the road, not sophisticated, cosmopolitan urban centers. San Francisco reversed that in this century. In so doing, it invited bums to set up pup tents on the streets and sidewalks.

Californians approved a referendum that allows people to steal up to $950 worth of goods without facing arrest. This led to store closings.

The Daily Mail reported, "San Francisco mayor London Breed has disputed Walgreen's claims it needs to shutter five stores in the city because its soft laws on shoplifting have led to rampant theft, claiming that the big chain was simply trying to slash costs and increase profits - and that retail theft was an easy scapegoat.

"Mayor London Breed told reporters last week that she thinks 'there are other factors that come into play' and San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston tweeted that the pharmacy chain has 'long-planned to close hundreds of locations.' 

"The national chain has closed 17 of its 70 San Francisco locations in the past two years and cited the shelf raiders, who have swiped every kind of product not behind lock and key. 

"But the pharmacy chain insists that San Francisco's rampant crime is to blame, revealing it spends 46 times as much on security at its city stores, which face five times as many shoplifting incidents compared with those elsewhere in the country. "

Democrat mayors have a contempt for the law and for order. Last summer's BLM riots -- aided and abetted by Democrat mayors across the land -- resulted in thousands of officers retiring or plain quitting, leaving police forces devastated.

This year, vaccine mandates are toppling police forces.

And restaurants. San Francisco closed an In-and-Out burger restaurant because its management refused to follow a vaccine mandate. The joint wants to sell burgers, and not be the vax patrol.

While mayors obsess with masks and other mandates, cities burn.

In Portland, Oregon, police cannot use tear gas and other means to quell riots.

KTVZ reported, "Portland police say a group of about 100 anarchists caused more than $500,000 in damage to businesses and government buildings in downtown Portland Tuesday night."

That was on October 12.

In Philadelphia, the city ordered police officers to stop enforcing traffic laws.

Why bother having a city then if you get no service? Democrats have thrown away decades of working on sanitation, traffic safety, and crime reduction. They want chaos. The next Republican president should use the courts and the National Guard to bring order to the cities.