Thanks to NowPublic user 'justice' for keeping us informed on this issue of Abuse of Homeless In San Francisco. Hiding the homeless or warehousing them makes it 'look like' things are better and money is being saved, but that is what we call 'smoke and mirrors'.
To help our homeless get better, we need meetings that include their input and we need accountability and a voice in how our tax money is spent to improve our lives.
We are tired of broken promises and being abused by City Workers and we are sick and tired of seeing services cut and safe spaces reduced by an Administration that just does not seem to 'get it'.
Well paid and bad City Workers and Police Officers and their bosses, who 'get off' on abusing people while they are sleeping or suffering from mental illnesses or drug addictions MUST BE IDENTIFIED AND FIRED.
We must replace them all with real people who care about others and hold up their promise to not break laws or violate our Constitutional Rights.
Once one discovers (such as undercover reporters like Amanda Witherall from the SF Bay Guradian and her partner discovered) that these vital cost saving programs, services and safe places to our homeless are totally underfunded -- we can easily see that costs for 'crisis intervention' and police and medical overtime (and risk of harm and death to the homeless) increase rapidly every time money is cut from the front end of these services which PREVENT HARM and REDUCE COSTS in the long run.
The current system punishes our people and rewards the abusers with high salaries and lots of fat overtime.
We need to reverse the entire system and fire everyone who is committing crimes and 'working against' the safety and well being of our homeless, poor and elderly and veterans in our community.
THIS IS OUR SAN FRANCISCO, NOT THEIRS.
According to Glide, the number of meals (more correctly, the number of meal tickets) being served and/or people being served has already risen 30% over last year.
That means that while Mayor Newsom was busy 'making it look nice' by policies which foster abuse of our people by police and city workers (spotlights, harassment, water canon assaults and beatings) and eliminating safe spaces at a time when any other reasonable Mayor would have been working hard to INCREASE funding for MORE SAFE SPACES to meet the rising demand for homeless and housing services in order to PREVENT future expensive costs to deal with his own 'self created' levels of crisis.
The health of our people and our economy always suffer whenever our city leaders cave into special interests and whenever we allow city workers and police to violate laws and cause harm to our people.
We know every dollar spent on prevention saves us at least 2 to 4 dollars later, by keeping all of our people as safe and healthy as possible, for the good of all San Franciscans.
Look at the amount of money this City has been spending for years on overtime and programs that DO NOT WORK with lots of newly hired, highly paid executives in City Hall.
You can see that the problem is NOT the homeless and poor people, but rather the problems are being created highly paid people who abuse the system and do things that look good on the outside, but do not really work or function once you see what's really going on from the inside out -- of most of our current homeless policies and programs.
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Justice Is Homeless
15 hours agoThe San Francisco Chronicle newspaper ran a story that stated, "general assistance rolls for the homeless have been slashed by 73 percent -...in a story titled, " About 800 homeless move inside with Care Not Cash About 800 homeless move inside with Care Not Cash"
Monday, May 2, 2005 Kevin Fagan, Chronicle
Staff Writer Page B1 San Francisco Chronicle
Story posted at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/02/BAGO2CIGM...
Blessings,
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