While the economy-crushing coronavirus shutdowns are wreaking havoc in just about every industry, the plastic industry is seeing, at least temporarily, one &#8220;win&#8221;: A growing number of liberal cities and states that have imposed bans or fees on single-use plastic bags are reversing their policies amid concerns about the health risks posed by reusable bags.
&#8220;In the latest sign of how dramatically the coronavirus pandemic is altering the social landscape, even the liberal San Francisco Bay Area this week banned reusable grocery bags as a sanitary measure, dismaying recycling advocates who say durable sacks should still be allowed at stores,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/04/01/its-come-to-this-liberal-san-francisco-bay-area-bans-reusable-grocery-bags-1270319">Politico</a> reported earlier this week.
The famously radical-left city&#8217;s Department of Public Health announced the temporary reversal of its 2007 plastic bag ban on Tuesday as part of an update to its coronavirus &#8220;stay-at-home&#8221; order. The new ordinance restricts customers from bringing into stores their own reusable items, like bags and mugs.
As usual, San Francisco is leading the way in terms of severity of  its ban effort, imposing what Politico&#8217;s Debra Kahn describes as &#8220;the most stringent coronavirus-related restriction placed on reusable bags in California.&#8221;
&#8220;[F]aced with the realities of the coronavirus, the city’s leaders have realized that excessive environmentalism isn’t always compatible with the realities of the world we live in today,&#8221; Hot Air&#8217;s <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/04/03/plastic-bag-bans-completely-reversed/">Jazz Shaw</a> writes. &#8220;As such, the ban has been not only lifted but reversed. Reusable bags are now banned in the City by the Bay.&#8221;
In other words, the city that once led the nation in reusable bag enforcement is now one of the first to officially ban them.
And, as Shaw notes, San Francisco isn&#8217;t the only progressive city reversing course on the plastic bag ban &#8212; &#8220;Maine, New York and Massachusetts have all either suspended their plastic bag bans or halted enforcement of the regulations,&#8221; he writes.
Meanwhile, as reported by Politico, the plastic industry is pushing hard for their cause across the country, lobbying on the federal level as well as some key states, including New York and New Jersey, &#8220;asserting that often-unwashed reusable bags are hotbeds for the coronavirus, which early research suggests can remain on surfaces.&#8221;
Along with the plastic ban reversal in San Francisco, other &#8220;environmentally-friendly&#8221; efforts have been abandoned by the general populace, with people rushing out to their local grocery stores to buy up all of the bottled water, while companies impose their own bans on reusable items, including Starbucks and Coffee Bean.
Environmentalists are trying to push back, but so far to no avail. Kahn cites Californians Against Waste Executive Director Mark Murray chiding the &#8220;misguided&#8221; anti-reusable bag movement, but also expressing some sympathy. &#8220;This fear of bringing reusable bags into the stores is misguided, but I certainly understand why store employees don&#8217;t want to handle somebody else&#8217;s things,&#8221; said Murray. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have any expectation that somebody is going to put my groceries into my bag that I brought from home.&#8221;
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So far, so good, in San Francisco, where a shelter-in-place order that was implemented has apparently blunted the impact of the coronavirus, as hospital emergency rooms are currently not overwhelmed. Dr. Jahan Fahimi, an emergency physician and medical director at the University of California, San Francisco, told <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/us/california-shelter-in-place-effects/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2020-03-31T06%3A11%3A05">CNN</a>, &#8220;The surge we have been anticipating has not yet come. We&#8217;re all kind of together holding our breaths.&#8221;
By Monday, 374 people had been confirmed with coronavirus and six people had died. Dr. Grant Colfax, the city&#8217;s public health director, cautioned, &#8220;We&#8217;re watching the data very carefully.”
Dr. Robert M. Wachter, who works at theUniversity of California, San Francisco Medical Center, wrote in <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/31/coronavirus-early-stay-home-order-helping-san-francisco-column/5088664002/">USA Today</a>:
<blockquote>By the first week in March, many of the Bay Area’s information technology giants, including <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-03-06/apple-employees-join-twitter-facebook-amazon-in-remote-work-as-coronavirus-spreads">Apple, Google and Facebook</a>, were directing their employees to work from home. The work-from-home orders increased the degree of physical distancing for tens of thousands of people in the region, which lowered the chances of viral spread. Such actions underscored a message that reverberated throughout the region: These companies were taking the threat seriously.er cautioned,</blockquote>
Wachter noted, “While we in San Francisco are allowing ourselves a bit of optimism, it’s entirely possible that our luck won’t hold.”
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/4-things-san-francisco-did-right-to-control-the-coronavirus/">Mother Jones</a> noted:
<blockquote>On March 11, six days after it announced its first two coronavirus cases, San Francisco barred gatherings of more than 1,000 people at a time and told folks not to leave their homes unless they needed to go grocery shopping and visit medical professionals … (San Francisco’s public health director Dr. Grant) Colfax pushed the city to set up the emergency operations center in January. It has relocated to the larger Moscone Center.</blockquote>
Dr. Armand Dorian, the chief medical officer at the University of Southern California Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, warned that while coronavirus cases had not exploded over the weekend, &#8220;We were like, &#8216;maybe there is something there.&#8217; But honestly, I would be very, very cautious because I really think we are at the beginning of the uptick.&#8221; He continued that the problem “is going to be coming in waves or mini waves. The key is just being so staunch, keeping everybody home for the next couple of weeks to make sure we don&#8217;t miss this opportunity. And this is not disappearing; it&#8217;s going to be here for the rest of our lives.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-distancing-is-working-to-reduce-coronavirus-cases-data-says">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Tuesday a report saying social distancing was working across the nation:
<blockquote>According to a company that produces thermometers that connect to the internet, thus permitting the company to track fevers across America, the social distancing measures that many areas in the United States have implemented are successfully working to reduce the number of coronavirus transmissions. Kinsa Health, which according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html">The New York Times</a>, has routinely been two to three weeks ahead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in predicting flu data since 2018, when it distributed over 500,000 thermometers, created a map of fever levels nationwide on March 22 and saw by the next day that social distancing measures were working.</blockquote>
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San Francisco Implemented Strong Measures Against Coronavirus. So Far, So Good.

On Monday, San Francisco imposed the strictest shutdown directives in the nation, ordering all residents of the county to &#8220;shelter at their place of residence&#8221; except if needing to leave for &#8220;essential&#8221; purposes. All &#8220;non-essential&#8221; businesses and services have likewise been ordered to shut down. Failure to comply is being treated as a misdemeanor &#8220;punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.&#8221; Since the order was issued Monday, life in San Francisco has changed dramatically, while many unanswered questions remain.
In a <a href="https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20Shelter-in-Place.pdf">health order</a> issued Monday, San Francisco&#8217;s Department of Public Health ordered all residents to shelter in place. All individuals living in the county must &#8220;shelter at their place of residence except that they my leave to provide or receive certain essential services or engage in certain essential activities and work for essential business and government services,&#8221; the order states. The only individuals exempted from the order are the homeless, who are urged to &#8220;find shelter and government agencies to provide it.&#8221;
The order specifies that all businesses and government agencies must &#8220;cease non-essential operations at physical locations in the county.&#8221; The order also bans all &#8220;non-essential gatherings of any number of individuals&#8221; and requires the &#8220;cessation of all non-essential travel.&#8221;
&#8220;Violation of or failure to comply with this Order is a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both,&#8221; the health order states.
Since the order was issued Monday, life in the city has &#8220;screeched to a halt,&#8221; as The <a href="https://apnews.com/07672ee6aded6e8ac5954c07676eb926">Associated Press</a> reports, while people are struggling to figure out what constitutes &#8220;essential&#8221; and &#8220;non-essential&#8221; activity.
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax attempted to offer residents some clarity, at least on the question of exercise and pets.
&#8220;You can still walk your dog or go on a hike with another person, as long as you keep 6 feet between you,&#8221; Dr. Colfax told AP.
So going outside to exercise is considered essential and thus permitted, so long as you keep your 6-feet of distance. But what else is essential? What exactly happens if you do leave home for a &#8220;non-essential&#8221; purpose? Residents remain uncertain. “No one is clear. No one has clarity as to what next steps are,” one Oakland resident told AP.
Under the order, essential businesses and services remain open, which includes gas stations, pharmacies, grocery stories, and banks. Like an increasing number of cities, including Los Angeles, many restaurants remain open to provide takeout but dine-in is forbidden. But like personal activity, what services are truly essential or non-essential is debatable.
The potential impact of the order also remains unclear, but it will likely be significant.
Below is an excerpt from the <a href="https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20Shelter-in-Place.pdf">order</a> issued by San Francisco&#8217;s Department of Public Health Monday (formatting adjusted):
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ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER No. C19-07
ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTING ALL INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THE COUNTY TO SHELTER AT THEIR PLACE OF RESIDENCE EXCEPT THAT THEY MAY LEAVE TO PROVIDE OR RECEIVE CERTAIN ESSENTIAL SERVICES OR ENGAGE IN CERTAIN ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES AND WORK FOR ESSENTIAL BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES; EXEMPTING INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS FROM THE SHELTER IN PLACE ORDER BUT URGING THEM TO FIND SHELTER AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO PROVIDE IT; DIRECTING ALL BUSINESSES AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES TO CEASE NON- ESSENTIAL OPERATIONS AT PHYSICAL LOCATIONS IN THE COUNTY; PROHIBITING ALL NON-ESSENTIAL GATHERINGS OF ANY NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS; AND ORDERING CESSATION OF ALL NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL
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DATE OF ORDER: March 16, 2020
Please read this Order carefully. Violation of or failure to comply with this Order is a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both. (California Health and Safety Code § 120295, et seq.; California Penal Code §§ 69, 148(a)(1); San Francisco Administrative Code section 7.17(b).)
Summary: The virus that causes Coronavirus 2019 Disease (“COVID-19”) is easily transmitted, especially in group settings, and it is essential that the spread of the virus be slowed to protect the ability of public and private health care providers to handle the influx of new patients and safeguard public health and safety. Because of the risk of the rapid spread of the virus, and the need to protect all members of the community and the Bay Area region, especially including our members most vulnerable to the virus and also health care providers, this Order requires all individuals anywhere in San Francisco to shelter in place—that is, stay at home—except for certain essential activities and work to provide essential business and government services or perform essential public infrastructure construction, including housing. This order begins at 12:01 a.m. on March 17, 2020 and will continue for three weeks through April 7, 2020, subject to the limited exceptions and under the terms and conditions more particularly set forth below.
Gatherings of individuals outside the home are generally prohibited, with certain exceptions for essential activities or essential travel or to perform work for essential businesses and government agencies or perform essential infrastructure work. Consistent with the directive issued by Governor Gavin Newsom on March 15, 2020, all bars and nightclubs are ordered closed. Restaurants and cafes—regardless of their seating capacity—that serve food are ordered closed except solely for takeout and delivery service. Additionally, all gyms and recreation facilities are ordered closed. Homeless individuals are not subject to the shelter in place order but are strongly urged to find shelter and government agencies are urged to take steps needed to provide shelter for those individuals.
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Under any of the limited circumstances in which individuals are allowed to interact in person outside their residence, the Health Officer orders individuals to abide by the following requirements: (i) maintain at least six feet from other individuals, wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds as frequently as possible or using hand sanitizer, cover coughs or sneezes, and not shake hands; (ii) for people with medical conditions, regardless of age, that put them at higher risk of serious complications should they get COVID-19, and other than health care workers and other essential providers, avoid leaving their homes to the extent possible; and (iii) for employers in San Francisco that do not provide essential businesses or government services, take all steps necessary for employees to work remotely from home to the extent possible. These requirements build on the California Department of Public Health and United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines issued March 11, 2020, extended as necessary to address the health emergency affecting the Bay Area region. No individual who is sick may go to the workplace or be outside the home except as necessary to seek or receive medical care in accordance with guidance from public health officials. The Health Officer may revise this Order as the situation evolves, and facilities must stay updated by checking the City Administrator’s website (sfgsa.org) regularly.
This Order revokes and replaces Order Number C19-05b, issued March 13, 2020, and C19-02, issued March 7, 2020. Those orders are no longer in effect as of the effective date and time of this Order. This Order does not revoke Order Numbers C19-01b, C19- 03, C19-04, or C19-06.
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTIONS 101040, 101085, AND 120175, THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO (“HEALTH OFFICER”) ORDERS:
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<li>The intent of this Order is to ensure that the maximum number of people self-isolate in their places of residence to the maximum extent feasible, while enabling essential services to continue, to slow the spread of COVID-19 to the maximum extent possible. When people need to leave their places of residence, whether to obtain or perform vital services, or to otherwise facilitate authorized activities necessary for continuity of social and commercial life, they should at all times reasonably possible comply with Social Distancing Requirements as defined in Section 10 below. All provisions of this Order should be interpreted to effectuate this intent. Failure to comply with any of the provisions of this Order constitutes an imminent threat and creates an immediate menace to public health.</li>
<li>All individuals currently living within the City and County of San Francisco (the “County”) are ordered to shelter at their place of residence. To the extent individuals are using shared or outdoor spaces, they must at all times as reasonably possible maintain social distancing of at least six feet from any other person when they are outside their residence. All persons may leave their residences only for Essential Activities, Essential Governmental Functions, or to operate Essential Businesses, all as defined in Section 10. Individuals experiencing homelessness are exempt from this Section, but are strongly urged to obtain shelter, and governmental and other entities are strongly urged to make such shelter available as soon as possible and to the maximum extent practicable (and to use COVID-19 risk mitigation practices in their operation).</li>
<li>All businesses with a facility in the County, except Essential Businesses as defined below in Section 10, are required to cease all activities at facilities located within the County except Minimum Basic Operations, as defined in Section 10. For clarity, businesses may also continue operations consisting exclusively of employees or contractors performing activities at their own residences (i.e., working from home). All Essential Businesses are strongly encouraged to remain open. To the greatest extent feasible, Essential Businesses shall comply with Social Distancing Requirements as defined in Section 10 below, including by maintaining six-foot social distancing for both employees and members of the public, including, but not limited to, when any customers are standing in line.</li>
<li>All public and private gatherings of any number of people occurring outside a single household or living unit are prohibited, except for the limited purposes as expressly permitted in Section 10. Nothing in this Order prohibits the gathering of members of a household or living unit.</li>
<li>All travel, including, but not limited to, travel on foot, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, automobile, or public transit, except Essential Travel and Essential Activities as defined below in Section 10, is prohibited. People must use public transit only for purposes of performing Essential Activities or to travel to and from work to operate Essential Businesses or maintain Essential Governmental Functions. People riding on public transit must comply with Social Distancing Requirements as defined in Section 10 below, to the greatest extent feasible. This Order allows travel into or out of the County to perform Essential Activities, operate Essential Businesses, or maintain Essential Governmental Functions.</li>
<li>This Order is issued based on evidence of increasing occurrence of COVID-19 within the County and throughout the Bay Area, scientific evidence and best practices regarding the most effective approaches to slow the transmission of communicable diseases generally and COVID-19 specifically, and evidence that the age, condition, and health of a significant portion of the population of the County places it at risk for serious health complications, including death, from COVID-19. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the general public, which is now a pandemic according to the World Health Organization, there is a public health emergency throughout the County. Making the problem worse, some individuals who contract the COVID-19 virus have no symptoms or have mild symptoms, which means they may not be aware they carry the virus. Because even people without symptoms can transmit the disease, and because evidence shows the disease is easily spread, gatherings can result in preventable transmission of the virus. The scientific evidence shows that at this stage of the emergency, it is essential to slow virus transmission as much as possible to protect the most vulnerable and to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed. One proven way to slow the transmission is to limit interactions among people to the greatest extent practicable. By reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, this Order helps preserve critical and limited healthcare capacity in the County.</li>
<li>This Order also is issued in light of the existence of 37 cases of COVID-19 in the County, as well as at least 258 confirmed cases and at least three deaths in neighboring Bay Area counties, as of 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 16, 2020, including a significant and increasing number of suspected cases of community transmission and likely further significant increases in transmission. Widespread testing for COVID-19 is not yet available but is expected to increase in the coming days. This Order is necessary to slow the rate of spread and the Health Officer will re-evaluate it as further data becomes available.</li>
<li>This Order is issued in accordance with, and incorporates by reference, the 
March 4, 2020 Proclamation of a State of Emergency issued by Governor Gavin Newsom, the February 25, 2020 Proclamation by the Mayor Declaring the Existence of a Local Emergency issued by Mayor London Breed, as supplemented on March 11, 2020, the March 6, 2020 Declaration of Local Health Emergency Regarding Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) issued by the Health Officer, and guidance issued by the California Department of Public Health, as each of them have been and may be supplemented.</li>
<li>This Order is also issued in accordance with, and incorporates by reference the March 12, 2020 Executive Order (Executive Order N-25-20) issued by Governor Gavin Newsom. Executive Order N-25- 20 expressly orders that “[a]ll residents are to heed any orders and guidance of state and local public health officials, including but not limited to the imposition of social distancing measures, to control the spread of COVID-19.” This Order is also based on statements by Governor Newsom during a press conference on March 15, 2020, indicating the guidance of the State of California that all nightclubs, bars, wineries, and brewpubs close and that persons 65 years old and older isolate at home.</li>
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San Francisco Imposes Strictest Shutdown In Nation, Leaves Many Unanswered Questions

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office began filing motions last week seeking the immediate release of all inmates being held pretrial in county jails who are considered more susceptible to catching coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
“We are taking action to protect older adults and those with compromised immune systems who are extremely vulnerable right now,” <a href="https://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2020/03/public-defender-seeks-immediate-release-for-people-in-jail-with-short-sentences-and-heightened-risk-of-coronavirus/">said</a> S.F. Public Defender Mano Raju. “People who are incarcerated in jail are already exposed to an unsafe environment. The cramped and unsanitary conditions in jail put the older or immunocompromised population at a much greater risk of contracting and spreading coronavirus.”
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Public Defender Seeks Immediate Release for People in Jail at Heightened Risk of Coronavirus <a href="https://t.co/B7r2gza5wJ">https://t.co/B7r2gza5wJ</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/sfdefender?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfdefender</a>
&mdash; Mano Raju (@ManoRajuPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManoRajuPD/status/1237466513348558848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Raju has <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-fears-prompt-call-for-sf-police-to-stop-issuing-citations-making-arrests-in-non-violent-cases/">asked</a> police to stop issuing citations for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies “unless there is a clear and present danger of imminent harm.” He <a href="https://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2020/03/public-defender-seeks-immediate-release-for-people-in-jail-with-short-sentences-and-heightened-risk-of-coronavirus/">said</a> he is committed to working with S.F. District Attorney Chesa Boudin and law enforcement “to identify safe alternatives for pretrial detention.”
“We are asking that the Sheriff, and others with the power to release people, act with similar urgency.”
In addition, Raju called for the early release of incarcerated persons who have less than six months left to serve.
“These are cases where the court has already decided that it’s safe to release someone into the community, and will be doing so in the very near future,” he <a href="https://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2020/03/public-defender-seeks-immediate-release-for-people-in-jail-with-short-sentences-and-heightened-risk-of-coronavirus/">said</a>. “This will help reduce the population on the inside, allowing for recommended distance between individuals during this public health crisis.”
There have been no confirmed cases within S.F. County’s jail system, which houses more than 1200 inmates.
<a href="https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/coronavirus.asp">According</a> to the S.F. Department of Public Health, 40 individuals in the county have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Monday morning. Officials <a href="https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/DPHRecommendationsRegardingSocialDistancing-03132020.pdf">warn</a> that people 60 years old and older, pregnant women, along with folks who have certain chronic severe medical conditions, are at a higher risk of serious illness. Those with heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and weakened immune systems due to afflictions such as HIV or cancer are the most vulnerable, health officials say. COVID-19 is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person, between people in close contact with one another through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person sneezes or coughs, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmission.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fabout%2Ftransmission.html">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some healthcare officials have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815002735/prisons-and-jails-worry-about-becoming-coronavirus-incubators">voiced concern</a> that jails and prisons could become “incubators” for the virus to spread.
In a letter to several public officials that included D.A. Boudin, Raju <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/public-defender-calls-for-measures-to-prevent-a-coronavirus-outbreak-in-jail/">wrote</a>: “The constant flow of both staff and detainees in and out of the jails – where large numbers of people are housed in close proximity – means that a powerful virus like COVID-19 can take over quickly and easily.”
Last week, “The Appeal” <a href="https://theappeal.org/coronavirus-san-francisco-reduce-jail-population/#.XmkpDG-FNvw.twitter">reported</a> that “Boudin directed his prosecutors not to oppose motions to release pretrial detainees facing misdemeanor charges or drug-related felony charges if the person is deemed to pose no threat to public safety.”
<a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/public-defender-calls-for-measures-to-prevent-a-coronavirus-outbreak-in-jail/">According</a> to the San Francisco Examiner, “Boudin said his office is considering new policies to help expedite release for some people and reduce the need for others to come to court in light of the outbreak.” COVID-19 could be a factor prosecutors consider when determining whether a person is recommended for release at their arraignment, The Examiner reported.
S.F. Sheriff Paul Miyamoto <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanSernoffsky/status/1237516117679079425">assured</a> Raju that the jails have a partnership with the county health department, and both agencies are monitoring the most vulnerable detainees to ensure their safety. Late last week, he <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/sf-county-jails-suspend-visits-due-to-coronavirus-concerns/2254351/">suspended</a> all visits to county jails to protect inmates and staff. Incarcerated individuals will have non-contact access to legal counsel.
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In abundance of caution, <a href="https://twitter.com/SheriffSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SheriffSF</a> suspends jail visiting. No known cases of coronavirus in SF jails per <a href="https://twitter.com/SF_DPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SF_DPH</a>. Decision mirrors community public health measures. Sheriff will review operations and make adjustments for future visiting. <a href="https://t.co/PXEUrYL2M4">https://t.co/PXEUrYL2M4</a>
&mdash; SF Sheriff&#39;s Office (@SheriffSF) <a href="https://twitter.com/SheriffSF/status/1238567717814206465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, two jail inmates in nearby Santa Clara County have been placed in medical isolation after they <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-inmates-quarantined-at-santa-clara-county-jail-after-defense-attorney-tests-positive/">reportedly</a> met with a defense attorney who has since tested positive for the virus. Sheriff Laurie Smith confirmed the quarantine on Friday, adding that the exposed detainees had shown “absolutely no symptoms” of infection.
Also on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) <a href="https://www.bop.gov/resources/news/20200313_covid-19.jsp">announced</a> a 30-day suspension of most legal visits and all social visits to mitigate COVID-19 transmission. The agency will allow for additional inmate telephone conversations to maintain social ties. BOP officials said they have been planning for coronavirus since January.
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San Francisco Public Defender Seeks ‘Immediate Release’ Of Some Jail Inmates Due To Coronavirus

Six counties in the Bay Area are expected to announce a &#8220;shelter in place&#8221; order, effective until mid-April, &#8220;directing everyone to stay inside their homes and away from others as much as possible for the next three weeks as public health officials desperately try to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus across the region,&#8221; <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Bay-Area-must-shelter-in-place-Only-15135014.php#">per the San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
But San Francisco&#8217;s thousands upon thousands of homeless individuals are, of course, exempt from the order, leaving residents questioning how the city plans to curb the spread of communicable disease in temporary &#8220;communities&#8221; and tent cities where illness is rampant and basic hygiene is almost non-existent.
&#8220;The directive begins at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and involves San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda counties — a combined population of more than 6.7 million,&#8221; the Chronicle reported Monday. &#8220;It is to stay in place until at least April 7. Three other Bay Area counties — Sonoma, Solano and Napa — were not immediately included.&#8221;
The order is not techically a &#8220;lockdown,&#8221; but it does allow for police and sheriffs department officials to &#8220;ensure compliance.&#8221;
“The scientific evidence shows that at this stage of the (coronavirus) emergency, it is essential to slow virus transmission as much as possible to protect the most vulnerable and to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed,” the order reads, per the Chronicle. “One proven way to slow the transmission is to limit interactions among people to the greatest extent practicable.”
The order covers a host of issues: it prevents gatherings &#8220;of any size&#8221; and prohibits individuals from leaving their homes except to seek emergency medical care, purchase necessary supplies and food, or provide friends and family with &#8220;necessary assitance.&#8221; People are allowed to go for walks but cannot come within six feet of any other people, and cannot go to work unless they are able to work from home or they provide an &#8220;essential service.&#8221;
There is one caveat, however: &#8220;People who are homeless are exempt from the order but encouraged to find shelter.&#8221;
San Francisco&#8217;s homeless population has already played host to a number of outbreaks, including an outbreak of typhus. At one point, late last year, officials were concerned that some members of San Francsico&#8217;s thousands-strong homeless community were even suffering from bubonic plague.
The city is also suffering from something of a &#8220;hygiene crisis&#8221; stemming from its homeless, spending millions upon millions in city funds to clean up streets littered with human feces and drug paraphernalia. In 2019, San Francisco actually established a &#8220;Poop Patrol&#8221; whose only job it is to clean feces off sidewalks and whose members make more than $150,000 per year.
Instead of quarantining the city&#8217;s homeless, San Francisco will, reportedly, spend an additional $5 million to keep areas where homeless individuals congregate clean and sanitized, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-coronavirus-outbreak-homeless-population-2020-3">per Business Insider</a>.
&#8220;San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Monday that dozens of workers will be hired to be part of a cleaning crew that will regularly deep-clean the shelters, supportive housing buildings, and the SRO&#8217;s, which are funded by the city. The money will also be used to keep shelters, including Navigation Centers, open 24/7,&#8221; the outlet reported.

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San Francisco Expected To Order Residents To Shelter In Place But Homeless Are Exempt

Is there no bottom to the dumpster fire that is San Francisco, California?
The good news for San Franciscans is that their mayor, London Breed, has been transparent. The bad news is that she had a 20-year friendship that included some romance with a former city worker who is being investigated by the FBI for public corruption.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-admits-past-romance-5g-car-repair-loan-from-subject-of-fbi-corruption-probe.amp">reported</a> that Breed admitted to the relationship with former city worker Mohammed Nuru on Friday with a post on Medium.
“I write this in the spirit of transparency because in the wake of a scandal at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/state-and-local">City Hall</a>, I think San Franciscans are entitled to hear directly from their Mayor,” she wrote. She also discussed the affair at a news conference where she explained there had been “a number of rumors” floating around and she wanted to set the record straight.
“To be clear,” she wrote on Medium. “I never asked Mohammed Nuru to do anything improper, and he never asked me to do anything improper.”
Breed did, however, admit to accepting $5,600 from Nuru in 2019 for a car repair. Fox reported she had not paid back the money yet.
&#8220;Mayor Breed&#8217;s admission of thousands of dollars in unreported gifts from a subordinate is likely illegal, certainly unethical, and part of a culture of casual corruption that is eroding the faith of the public,” said San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar. “Given the seriousness of this admission, the direct connection to the central figure in the FBI&#8217;s investigation into public corruption, I believe we need to put the people of San Francisco first. I believe Mayor Breed should do the right thing and temporarily step back from her duties until a full, independent investigation can be completed.&#8221;
Breed’s political opponent, Supervisor Hillary Ronen suggested the mayor should resign, saying, &#8220;I do think she should resign. What I am sick of in this city is the culture of corruption.”
Fellow supervisor Dean Preston said Breed should face questions from the Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Aaron Peskin also said he wanted to question Breed before demanding she resign.
&#8220;She&#8217;s calling one of her staff to fix and pick up her car and get a rental car,&#8221; Peskin said. &#8220;Was he doing that instead of running the department of public works?&#8221;
Breed added that although she was being transparent, she was not remorseful for her relationship with Nuru.
&#8220;I will not apologize for dating someone two decades ago. I will not apologize for remaining close friends with him and his family for 20 more years. But neither will I make excuses for any misdeeds,&#8221; Breed said.
As Fox reported, “Nuru and restaurant owner Nick Bovis were arrested late last month and charged with corruption and lying to the FBI.”
KTVU <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/mayor-breeds-revelations-raise-questions-san-francisco-politicians-react">reported</a> San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office will investigate potential ethical violations regarding Breed’s relationship with Nuru. Boudin added that he takes “public corruption very seriously.”
KTVU also reported that Nuru and Nick Bovis, a restaurant owner, were arrested by FBI agents in late January “among five ‘schemes’ that involved trying to bribe an airport commissioner to vote in favor of a Bovis-owned business at the airport and Nuru accepting travel and gifts from a Chinese developer doing business in town.”

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San Francisco Mayor Just Admitted To Having Relationship, Accepting Money From City Worker Under FBI Investigation For Public Corruption

The leader of a union representing San Francisco police officers recently blasted the newly-elected, progressive district attorney, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">claiming</a> the city and county’s top prosecutor has given criminals a “green light” to attack cops.
The accusation came after D.A. Chesa Boudin, who was sworn in earlier this month, decided to withdraw criminal charges against a man who allegedly physically assaulted law enforcement in December, pending further investigation. The suspect, 24-year-old Jamaica Hampton, was shot three times by police officers during the altercation, sustaining critical injuries. He recently had his leg amputated as a result and <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">remains</a> hospitalized.
“Mr. Boudin has made it clear to criminals everywhere that you can violently attack a police officer and he’ll look the other way,” <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">said</a> Tony Montoya, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA).
On Monday, Montoya called on federal prosecutors to intervene, adding that one of the officers was attacked with a glass bottle and “received sutures to the face.” <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/newly-elected-sf-da-boudin-withdraws-charges-against-cop-attack-suspect/2220998/">According</a> to NBC Bay Area, Montoya said: “Mr. Boudin has made it very clear that it’s open season on police officers.”
Montoya also announced that the SFPOA had launched a new website, <a href="https://www.boudinblunders.com/">BoudinBlunders.com</a>, where community members can submit information about crimes that the D.A.’s office fails to prosecute.
Boudin <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">called</a> the union’s claims “plainly false” and said the two cops involved in the incident are currently under investigation for their use-of-force, possibly creating a conflict if they were to testify in the criminal case against their alleged attacker. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reports</a> that the D.A.’s office has three years to refile the charges.
“The health of any criminal case depends on internal clarity around the charges being filed, which becomes more complicated when you are dealing with an instance where there is potentially competing criminal liability,” Boudin said.
S.F. Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reportedly</a> sent letters to every police officer in the department expressing their support.
“The D.A. indicated that this withdrawal is not a dismissal of the case,” wrote Scott. “This unprovoked attack was a violent, criminal act. I want you to know that we remain committed to working with the D.A. to see that justice is done in this case for our officers.”
Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Police-union-boss-2-goals-Chastise-chief-and-15011856.php">criticized</a> Chief Scott for inadequately standing up for rank-and-file officers.
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As the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Video of the encounter showed Hampton dodging two San Francisco police officers he had allegedly attacked with a bottle near the intersection of 23rdand Mission streets.
During the foot chase, Hampton appeared to run toward Officer Sterling Hayes, while still carrying the bottle, moments before the officer opened fire. Hampton attempted to get up when Officer Christopher Flores fired one shot.
Police said Hampton matched the description of an intruder who had broken into a woman’s home that morning…
Hampton was originally booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, assault upon a police officer and threats to an officer. The case was charged by interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus but never proceeded to arraignment while Hampton remained hospitalized.</blockquote>
The Chronicle recently <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/SF-Police-Officers-Association-is-at-a-15001827.php">reported</a> that Montoya is currently in a runoff election for his next term to lead the SFPOA. The union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Boudin last November over concerns that he would not support law enforcement. At Boudin’s victory party on election night, S.F. Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11785144/its-between-suzy-loftus-and-chesa-boudin-for-sf-district-attorney">led chants</a> of “F*** the POA.” After Boudin announced last week that his office ended cash bail as a condition for pretrial release, Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-DA-Chesa-Boudin-ends-cash-bail-for-14996400.php">warned</a> that the new D.A. “is in the process of building the largest criminal justice revolving door imaginable,” adding, “San Franciscans will pay a heavy price for it.”
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Six San Francisco Police Officers Indicted Multiple Corruption Charges

S.F. Police Union Slams New Progressive D.A., Says ‘It’s Open Season’ On Cops

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On Monday, the head of San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), who refers to himself as “Mr. Clean” on Twitter, and whose department is charged with cleaning up the drug needles, feces and urine on the city’s streets, was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption.
Mohammed Nuru, the head of SFPW, was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts, NBC Bay Area reported, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-public-works-official-arrested">Fox News</a>. The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-Public-Works-Director-Mohammed-Nuru-arrested-15010510.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported, “FBI agents on Monday arrested Nuru, 57, and Bovis, 56, at their Bay Area homes before unsealing a federal complaint Tuesday for one charge of wire fraud. Nuru is separately charged with lying to the FBI after initially being arrested on Jan. 21 and being told to keep quiet about the investigation.”
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This is a sad day for San Francisco. 
These charges against Director Nuru demonstrate the need for much broader reforms. 
We urgently need a top to bottom restructuring of the Dept, with much stronger public oversight, accountability and transparency.<a href="https://t.co/p6SO003TJU">https://t.co/p6SO003TJU</a>
&mdash; Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1222252399617642497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Chronicle added, “Nuru is a visible department head who’s been at the post for nearly two decades and is deeply intertwined in San Francisco’s so-called city family, which includes former Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee and current Mayor Breed.” The Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SF-official-arrested-by-FBI-was-go-to-guy-for-15011155.php">opined</a>, “ … a succession of four mayors ignored bright red flags about his performance for decades … Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Ed Lee and London Breed counted on Nuru to respond to a call or text at any hour … City Hall observers said privately that Nuru’s loyalty may have discouraged mayors from looking too closely at how he ran his ship at Public Works <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Cleanup-wizard-in-a-messy-scandal-DPW-aide-has-2795062.php">despite documented complaints over the years</a>.”
The Chronicle detailed, “In 2004, a Chronicle investigation uncovered accusations that nine people from Nuru’s nonprofit, SLUG, were forced to do work for Newsom’s mayoral campaign and were pressured into voting for him for mayor. They reportedly were told their jobs with the city would be in danger if they didn&#8217;t cooperate.”
David Anderson, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, stated on Tuesday, “The complaint alleges corruption pouring into San Francisco from around the world,” and accused Nuru of “corruption, bribery kickbacks and side deals by one of San Francisco’s highest-ranking public employees.”
Nuru supervises 1,600 employees as well as the design and construction of city facilities.
Nick Bovis, the owner of the sports bar Lefty O-Doul’s, was also arrested. In 2017, the two men supported “Tiny Potties” that the Chronicle said were supposed to resemble the Painted Ladies Victorian homes near Alamo Square.
Supervisor Matt Haney slammed Nuru, saying, “It’s a shock. I think that department has been run like a one-person fiefdom for a long time. There’s an understanding that ‘everything goes through Mohammed,’ and if you piss him off, there’s retribution. I think there needs to be an overhaul of that department. We need much more accountability and transparency there.” He added, “When you have a department head who can make everything or nothing happen, it’s disastrous for both potential corruption and effective city services. Both failed. He was created by mayors for their own purposes to be able to deliver things they wanted.”
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer echoed the news “came as a complete shock … There was no buzz at City Hall, and that’s a place where secrets are hard to keep.”

Inequality Highest in U.S. Cities With Strong Economies

SF Official Charged With Keeping Streets Clean, Calls Himself ‘Mr. Clean.’ He’s Been Arrested For Corruption.

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With multiple confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States, including two in California, the city of  San Francisco has activated its emergency operations center in preparation for a potential outbreak.
While there have been no reported cases of the virus in the city, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is &#8220;on standby, with isolation rooms prepared for coronavirus patients if needed,&#8221; Fox News-affiliate <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-activates-emergency-operations-center-in-preparation-of-coronavirus-outbreak">KTVU</a> reported Monday.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to recognize that there are no known cases in San Francisco at this time,&#8221; said San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón, KTVU reports. &#8220;We are actively preparing for the possibility of confirmed cases.&#8221;
&#8220;We will be broadcasting in partnership with the Department of Public Health public health information about how to prevent the spread of the virus, and what to do to stay healthy during flu season,&#8221; said San Francisco Department of Emergency Management&#8217;s Mary Ellen Carrol.
&#8220;We won&#8217;t be able to tell just by the symptoms,&#8221; Dr. Aragón explained. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the history of where that person has been is the most important factor.&#8221;
As the symptoms of the coronavirus are similar to the common flu, officials are carefully monitoring those flying into the states from the regions in China impacted by the virus, namely Wuhan, outbound traffic from which has now been canceled, San Francisco International Airport announced.
WTVU notes that a flight planned by the State Department containing personnel who worked in Wuhan is scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Ontario via Anchorage. &#8220;San Francisco authorities say they are in communication with state health officials and the Centers for Disease Control to monitor developments in the progression of coronavirus,&#8221; WTVU reports.
San Francisco&#8217;s preparatory measures were announced after additional coronavirus cases were reported in the States over the weekend, totaling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-hits-u-s-more-cases-reported-in-multiple-states">five cases</a> in four states, including two in California (one in Orange County and another in Los Angeles County), one in Arizona (Maricopa County), one in Washington state, and another in Chicago, Illinois.
As reported by The Associated Press, China reported Tuesday that 25 more people have died from the coronavirus, totaling at least 106 deaths so far.
“China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak,” The Associated Press reported. “There were 1,771 new cases confirmed on Monday, raising the national total to 4,515, according to the National Health Commission. It said 976 were in serious condition.”
The Chinese government has responded to the outbreak by imposing a massive, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-hits-u-s-more-cases-reported-in-multiple-states">unprecedented</a>&#8221; quarantine, encompassing some 56 million people.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a level 3 travel warning Monday to &#8220;avoid nonessential travel&#8221; to the affected area.
“CDC recommends that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China,” the CDC <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-china">said</a> in a statement. “In response to an outbreak of respiratory illness, Chinese officials have closed transport within and out of Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, including buses, subways, trains, and the international airport. Additional restrictions and cancellations of events may occur. There is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas.”
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CDC recommends travelers avoid all nonessential travel to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a> due to the ongoing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2019nCoV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2019nCoV</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a>) outbreak. The outbreak is growing and there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas. <a href="https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs">https://t.co/Km38IKxIAs</a> <a href="https://t.co/NHboTImlyr">pic.twitter.com/NHboTImlyr</a>
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San Francisco Activates Emergency Operations Center Preparing For Coronavirus

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China

Some businesses have shut down in San Francisco, California due to the city’s economy. Specifically, several companies that employed robots have closed their doors.
Last week, Zume Pizza closed down in Mountain View and in San Francisco, cutting a total of 252 jobs. This also meant that the robots that were used to make the company’s pizzas would be out of work.
“With admiration and sadness, we are closing Zume Pizza today,” said Zume Chief Executive Alex Gardn in an email to employees. “Over the last four years this business has been our invention test bed and has been our inspiration for many of the growth businesses we have at Zume today.”
The job cuts are part of a company-wide restructuring that will result in a total loss of 360 jobs, The Mercury News <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/09/zume-pizza-closes-down-cuts-172-jobs-in-mountain-view/">reported</a>. The company will now focus on food packaging and delivery systems, and will allow former employees to apply for 100 newly created positions within the restructured company.
In addition to Zume, three Café X coffee shops closed in the Bay Area. The shops used robot baristas, The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Cafe-X-s-robotic-arms-wave-goodbye-at-3-SF-14957264.php?utm_campaign=sfgate&amp;utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Ffood%2Farticle%2Fcoffee-robot-baristas-3-locations-Cafe-X-close-14959241.php">reported</a>.
The Associated Press reported that “its robotic baristas joined robots that made smoothies and hamburgers or mixed and dispensed salads and quinoa bowls.” The outlet added that Café X “will continue to have competition in the automated coffee market,” as Briggo Coffee Haus, located in the San Francisco airport, also uses a robot to make 100 drinks per hour.
Robots are often used in place of humans because they are cheaper over the long run and can increase productivity (without needing breaks or benefits).
But San Francisco has become such a hostile place for businesses &#8212; not to mention residents and tourists – that even restaurants that use robots struggle. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-no-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-san-francisco">reported</a> in November that people were afraid to open businesses in the area due to a string of burglaries. One restaurant, the Pine Tar Grill, was burglarized three times in its first 16 months of business, costing the owner thousands of dollars. Numerous business owners <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/No-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-San-14842211.php">told the</a> Chronicle that opening a business in the Bay Area was difficult, with one owner saying “No one wants to open a restaurant in San Francisco.”
In addition to the crime, San Francisco is also dealing with a homelessness crisis and a literal poop crisis. The city is set to spend more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-will-spend-more-70-million-year-just-emily-zanotti">$70 million</a> trying to clean up human feces from its streets. One neighborhood has even started taking up a collection to hire its own private poop patrol, The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-neighborhood-takes-up-collection-to-hire-its-own-private-poop-patrol">reported</a>.
While residents are predictably outraged at the state of their city, they don’t appear to be doing anything to change the leadership that has allowed San Francisco to decay. In November, voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocker-san-francisco-elects-radical-d-a-whose-parents-were-american-terrorists">elected</a> Chesa Boudin as their new District Attorney. Boudin appears to be more interested in going after police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers than criminals. He is also the son of two Weather Underground terrorists convicted for the murder of a New York policeman and security guard.

Robot Barista

Economy In San Francisco So Bad, Even The Robots Are Losing Their Jobs

A disturbing scene unfolded in San Francisco over the weekend as numerous people posted on social media about a man who walked into a Safeway grocery store and defecated in the middle of store.
The incident reportedly happened at a Safeway in northern San Francisco, inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s district, with a store employee telling The Daily Wire that the incident happened on Sunday.
The employee, who did not wish to be named, said that when they arrived at work today that other employees were talking about the incident from yesterday, which the employee said was the first time that it happened inside the store.
The employee said that public defecation has become such a problem in San Francisco that people in the area love when it rains because it cleans off the sidewalks and the streets.
Journalist Deborah Kan tweeted out a photo of the incident and wrote in a tweet to the Mayor of San Francisco: &#8220;. @LondonBreed here’s a pic of a man on drugs taking a poo in aisle 10 of @Safeway Marina Sunday morning in #SF. Why is this okay?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/LondonBreed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LondonBreed</a> here’s a pic of a man on drugs taking a poo in aisle 10 of <a href="https://twitter.com/Safeway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Safeway</a> Marina Sunday morning in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SF</a>. Why is this okay? <a href="https://twitter.com/KTVU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KTVU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kpix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kpix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kron</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KGOdesk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KGOdesk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sfchronicle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfchronicle</a> <a href="https://t.co/4ef4S6Qs8n">pic.twitter.com/4ef4S6Qs8n</a>
&mdash; Deborah Kan (@debkhk) <a href="https://twitter.com/debkhk/status/1206359030576238592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Congressional candidate John Dennis, who is running for Pelosi&#8217;s seat as a Republican, wrote in a tweet: &#8220;Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi. I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse. The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab. Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway.&#8221;
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Cleanup in Aisle 3! Thank you Nancy Pelosi.
I publicly warned in 2018 that if we let people violate our streets the homeless problem would get worse.
The answer: Arrest, then offer a choice. Jail or rehab.
Just got this photo. A homeless man defecating in our local Safeway. <a href="https://t.co/4mrpzDNA9T">pic.twitter.com/4mrpzDNA9T</a>
&mdash; John Dennis for Congress (@RealJohnDennis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJohnDennis/status/1206307250240798720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Between 2011 and 2018, San Francisco experienced a massive increase in reported incidents of human feces found on public streets,&#8221; SFGate reported. &#8220;In 2011, just over 5,500 reports were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number increased to more than 28,000.&#8221;
The report says that the numbers are most likely much higher than what the statistics show because the statistics are based only on reported incidents.
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Lately there has been a brownout in the Bay Area&#8230; Since 2011, there have been at least 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter on city streets. <a href="https://twitter.com/ForbesOpinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ForbesOpinion</a> <a href="https://t.co/4nzW2iNLvf">https://t.co/4nzW2iNLvf</a> <a href="https://t.co/4itldSUafq">pic.twitter.com/4itldSUafq</a>
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The problem is so bad now that San Francisco now employs a &#8220;Poop Patrol&#8221; to deal with the issue. Business Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-feces-sidewalks-housing-crisis-2018-8">reported</a> in August:
<blockquote>In San Francisco, people call the city&#8217;s telephone hotline about 65 times a day to report piles of human feces on streets and sidewalks. &#8230;
&#8230; Starting next month, a team of five employees from the Department of Public Works will take to the streets of San Francisco&#8217;s grittiest neighborhood, the Tenderloin, in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner. They will ride around the alleys to clean piles of poop before citizens have a chance to complain about them &#8230;</blockquote>
San Franciso Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/sf-mayor-theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-ive-ever-seen/62590/">said</a> in a recent interview: &#8220;I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I&#8217;ve ever seen growing up here. That is a huge problem, and we are not just talking about from dogs — we&#8217;re talking about from humans.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think that the city is poorly spending what it already has,&#8221; Breed added. &#8220;I spend a lot of time on Fillmore Street. I see the people who are part of a program, out there power washing. They’re out there doing what they can to keep the community clean, almost every day, and then right after they leave, maybe an hour or two later, the place is filled with trash again.&#8221;

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‘Cleanup In Aisle 3!’: Horrifying Scene Shows What Is Going On In Pelosi’s District

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In the People’s Republic of San Francisco, where drug needles, urine, and homeless people abound, the 24 Pit Stops run by the city for public peeing and pooping that are open 24-7 are costing taxpayers $28.50 per flush.
According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-s-public-toilets-a-big-relief-and-the-14879898.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “Public Works has estimated that keeping all 24 of the city’s Pit Stops open around the clock would cost an extra $8.25 million a year. Staffing is the primary cost. The attendants ensure the public bathrooms are kept safe, clean and used for their intended purpose.”
The Chronicle adds that public toilets sans attendants were often used for drug activity and prostitution; thus the city erected the Pit Stops on Sixth and Jessie streets South of Market, Market and Castro streets in the Castro, and Eddy and Jones streets in the Tenderloin, where two attendants were present to monitor the toilets 24 hours per day, costing the city $300,000 between mid-August through mid-November.
Public Works logs found that the toilets were utilized 10,518 times between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. The Chronicle stated, “So the extra $300,000 for 10,518 after-hour uses comes to $28.52 per overnight flush.”
Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who initiated the program five years ago, defended his project, stating, “The Pit Stops provide a place for people to take care of their bathroom needs with dignity, improving neighborhood livability and reducing demands on Public Works staff to clean up human waste from the city’s sidewalks, doorways and streets.”
But the Chronicle points out that the supposed reduction in demands on Public Works staff is not entirely accurate, noting:
<blockquote>In the quarter-mile radius around the Tenderloin Pit Stop, calls went from 188 in the three months prior to the test to 176 during the three-month test — that’s a drop of four calls per month. Calls for cleanups in the quarter-mile radius around South of Market Pit Stop dropped to 166 from 190 — eight fewer per month. Calls in the quarter-mile around the Castro Pit Stop dropped from 68 to 61, less than three per month.</blockquote>
Yet Supervisor Matt Haney is bullish about the project, asserting, “We should open all of them downtown, in my district, 24 hours. I know there is a need there. The other locations we should look at in a case-by-case basis and review the use data. I’m certain there are other parts of the city with similar needs.” He added, “The people who do the work are almost entirely recently formerly incarcerated, so it also serves as a sort of jobs program. So there are significant additional benefits other than only the bathroom uses.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-neighborhood-takes-up-collection-to-hire-its-own-private-poop-patrol">The Daily Wire</a> has noted that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-homeless-animal-human-feces-tenderloin-district-pressure-wash-sidewalks-program">Fox News reported</a> that the Tenderloin, which, according to the San Francisco &#8220;<a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/news/?CategoryId=105">poop map</a>,&#8221; is &#8220;ground zero&#8221; for the city&#8217;s waste problem, with dozens of reports of human feces littering the sidewalk being called into the city&#8217;s 311 non-emergency hotline every month, and despite San Francisco&#8217;s reported overtime commitment to keep the streets feces-free, the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; cleanup unit is only able to thoroughly wash the Tenderloin&#8217;s public sidewalks around once per month because demand is so high.
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RITZY CITY: San Francisco 24-7 ‘Pit Stops’ Costing A Whopping $28.50 Per Flush

San Francisco is now famously the city of feces-covered sidewalks. But one particularly affected neighborhood &#8212; the city&#8217;s Tenderloin district &#8212; is so fed up with the mess they&#8217;ve taken up a collection from local businesses and residents to hire a private company to clean the sidewalks in between visits from the city&#8217;s official &#8220;poop patrol.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-homeless-animal-human-feces-tenderloin-district-pressure-wash-sidewalks-program">Fox News reports</a> that the Tenderloin, which, according to the San Francisco &#8220;<a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/news/?CategoryId=105">poop map</a>,&#8221; is &#8220;ground zero&#8221; for the city&#8217;s waste problem, with dozens of reports of human feces littering the sidewalk being called into the city&#8217;s 311 non-emergency hotline every month, and despite San Francisco&#8217;s reported overtime commitment to keep the streets feces-free, the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; cleanup unit is only able to thoroughly wash the Tenderloin&#8217;s public sidewalks around once per month because demand is so high.
The new program, the Tenderloin hopes, will increase powerwashings to at least once per week.
&#8220;The Tenderloin Community Benefit District, which is a non-profit neighborhood group, secured an additional $260,000 this year to essentially quadruple the number of times the neighborhood’s sidewalks are professionally cleaned a month, according to the program’s supervisor Matt Haney,&#8221; reports Fox News. &#8220;Property owners within the district’s 30 square blocks helped fund the program as the neighborhood continues to be plagued by a large homeless population.&#8221;
The program won&#8217;t supplant the city&#8217;s &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; efforts, run by the San Francisco Department of Public Works. But that group can only wash the sidewalks with industrial grade equipment once per month. Otherwise, the &#8220;poop patrol&#8221; hoses down the sidewalks with fire hoses and and steam cleaners once per day.
The daily wash doesn&#8217;t get everything, and going a month between industrial washes leaves the sidewalks a mess. So the Tenderloin wants a private company to come in and do a thorough deep clean once per week, ideally before the work week begins and employees of big-name tech companies like Twitter, whose headquarters are located nearby, have to wade through the mess to get to work.
The city of San Francisco has been dealing with the &#8220;poop problem&#8221; for more than a year now. While there aren&#8217;t reliable numbers available yet for 2019, in 2018 there were 28,084 instances of sidewalk feces reported to the city&#8217;s 311 hotline (those &#8220;incidents&#8221; could involve either human or animal poop).
<a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/city-officials-deal-with-growing-poop-problem-in-san-francisco/">A local NBC affiliate</a> estimates that the city has received over 25,000 complaints so far, which would make 2019 San Francisco&#8217;s poopiest year ever &#8212; and that&#8217;s based only on documented reports. The real number could be much, much higher.
The city has tried to handle the issue by focusing on cleaning up the mess as often as possible and providing more public restrooms for the city&#8217;s ever-growing homeless population, but those efforts have mostly failed, if only because they barely scratch the surface of what is an endemic city issue. The Tenderloin district, for example, did get a new public restroom, serviced by Pit Stop and paid for by the city, but it&#8217;s not enough, and it doesn&#8217;t have 24-hour security, which means those sleeping rough aren&#8217;t always using it for its intended purpose.
The problem does actually seem to be San Francisco&#8217;s non-enforcement of rules against setting up camp on city streets and sidewalks. Although an estimated 7,500 people call the streets of San Francisco home, the city refuses to do much more than provide them with temporary housing and facilities. There&#8217;s no room for shelters (and rent is far too high for non-profits to afford, anyway), and public housing doesn&#8217;t seem to be an option. Short-term jail time could prove useful, but only as a temporary fix to a permanent &#8212; and growing &#8212; problem.

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San Francisco Neighborhood Takes Up Collection To Hire Its Own Private Poop Patrol

Restaurateurs are avoiding opening new establishments in the City by the Bay and there&#8217;s a good  reason for their decision. According to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/No-one-wants-to-open-a-restaurant-in-San-14842211.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, numerous break-ins have occurred recently, plaguing restaurant owners. The Chronicle listed some examples:
Pine Tar Grill was burglarized three times in the first 16 months after it opened, costing the owner, Dave Martin, thousands of dollars and triggering his decision to close the diner. Martin told the Chronicle, “To balance everything out when it comes to the costs, I would have had to charge like $85 for a cheeseburger.&#8221;
Another example: bubble-tea chain Boba Guys has been hit with three break-ins in the past year, according to co-owner Andrew Chau. He stated on Instagram that <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xegcupISd/">San Francisco “is a shell of what it used to be</a> — I’m a local, son of a retired Muni bus operator and Pacific Bell call center representative. I’ve seen this city transform into Gotham, and it makes me sad. It’s time for radical solutions that think long-term.”
Kim Alter, owner of Nightbird, attested that the restaurant had suffered from repeated vandalism attempts. She told the Chronicle, “No one wants to open a restaurant in San Francisco.”
Laurie Thomas, a board member of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and the owner of Terzo and Rose’s Café, said some incidents of vandalism go unreported because the insurance deductible they would have to pay would be greater than the cost of the damage. She added that some owners believe the police will not take any action after a report. She asserted, “The more pressing issue is the physiological and emotional damage break-ins have on a staff. When this happens often, these places can feel unsafe. Female servers and bartenders carrying cash from tip outs, they all worry.”
In late October, President Trump targeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the state of her home city, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tweeting:</a>
<blockquote>I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment &#8230; We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!</blockquote>
San Francisco has been plagued by all sorts of problems in recent years; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-residents-discover-heavy-solution-for-homeless-problem">The Daily Wire</a> reported in late September, &#8220;A group of residents in San Francisco have come up with a novel solution to inhibit homeless people from camping on their residential street: placing roughly 25 boulders on the sidewalk.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-map-shows-human-poop-complaints">Fox News</a> reported in April 2019, “A <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/map/?Map=32504&amp;MapType=Pin&amp;Zip=94103" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new map</a> pinpointing the locations where human feces are reported to have been found in the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">California</a> city since 2011 shows San Francisco has a staggering problem with the stinky stuff. Nearly every city block has had a poop sighting in recent years as the city grapples with homelessness, according to data compiled by Open The Books.”
<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-human-waste-feces-homeless-Reddit-13044317.php">SFGate</a> reported in July 2018, &#8220;Complaints about human waste around San Francisco increased by 400 percent from 2008 to 2018, according to 311. There were more than 21,000 reports made to 311 in 2017 alone.&#8221;

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Report: ‘No One Wants To Open A Restaurant In San Francisco’

On Saturday, San Francisco voters elected a new District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, who “<a href="https://www.chesaboudin.com/issues">wants</a> to free criminals but prosecute police and ICE agents for doing their jobs,” as townhall.com noted.
As Bronson Stocking of <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/11/10/radical-son-of-cop-killing-terrorists-wins-san-fransisco-da-race-n2556228">townhall.com noted</a>, Boudin comes by his antipathy for police quite naturally; a Yale graduate, he is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground terrorists who were convicted for their participation in the murder of two Nyack, New York policemen and a security guard when they helped rob a Brinks armored security car in 1981. Boudin was convicted of felony murder and released on parole in 2003. She went on to become an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/research-scientists/kathy-boudin/">co-director and co-founder</a> of the Center for Justice there. Gilbert was also convicted of felony murder for the incident; he is still in prison.
Stocking noted, “After his parents killed the cops, Boudin was sent to live with two other terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Dohrn <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/4/">declared</a> war on the United States and was on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted list. Ayers <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/">bombed</a> the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol building, and the New York City Police Department before he and Dohrn became fugitives and went into hiding. The pair eventually came out of hiding and settled in as university professors.”
Chesa Boudin <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/sf-public-defender-running-for-da-calls-for-unit-to-protect-immigrants-from-deportation/">stated last June</a> that if he were elected district attorney he would create a unit to help illegal immigrants charged with crimes from being deported. He said, “This isn’t about trying to privilege immigrants. It’s about helping to protect our immigrant communities from being punished by the federal government for something that we’ve already punished them for.”
Boudin called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) racist, snapping, “There are lots of situations in San Francisco where ICE is making arrests. We know it’s racist, we know it’s targeting immigrants, and unfortunately right now no one in the DA’s office has the resources or the mandate to investigate those interactions.”
Columnist <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/30/radical_spawn_chesa_boudin_nations_most_toxic_da_candidate_141616.html">Michelle Malkin</a> wrote of Boudin:
<blockquote>While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation. While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;</blockquote>
Bernard Goldberg, in his book “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&amp;pg=PA75&amp;lpg=PA75&amp;dq=sad+that+my+parents+have+to+suffer+what+they+have+to+suffer+on+a+daily+basis&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=zllexNHMqL&amp;sig=ACfU3U2AvUeY4SffPCTOPy8Eo9oHRi0J4Q&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi9296ItOLlAhUIPa0">Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite</a>,” quoted Chesa Boudin bemoaning his parents’ incarceration, complaining to The New York Times, “My parents were dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated to the same thing … I’m sad that that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis, that millions of other people have to suffer as well.”
Goldberg continued, “While we hear much about Chesa Boudin’s suffering and hardships, and about the suffering and hardships of the poor around the world, neither the Times nor our Ivy-League educated Rhodes scholar tells us anything about the suffering of other children much closer to home —the nine children left behind by the policemen and the guard who were murdered, in cold blood, with the help of Chesa Boudin’s parents. On this the Times and young Mr Boudin are silent. They say not a word.”

Chesa Boudin and His Mother Kathy

SHOCKER: San Francisco Elects Radical D.A. Whose Parents Were American Terrorists

Socialist Bernie Sanders just endorsed the bleeding-heart candidate for San Francisco District Attorney who makes President Obama&#8217;s Attorney General, Eric Holder, look like Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Meet Chesa Boudin. He&#8217;s the Bay Area public defender and former shill/translator for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez who plans to turn the craphole of San Francisco into an even bigger sanctuary for the homeless, drug abusers, illegal immigrants, gangsters, vandals, thieves, recidivist criminals and cop-haters than it is already. Boudin leads a spooky field of left-lefter-leftists running for DA on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The cornerstone of Boudin&#8217;s campaign is sabotaging immigration enforcement. He has called for prosecution and imprisonment of ICE and police officers for doing their jobs and vowed to create an &#8220;immigrant defense unit&#8221; within the DA&#8217;s office to &#8220;stand up to Trump on immigration.&#8221;
While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation.
While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;
Boudin&#8217;s campaign tagline claims he wants to build a criminal justice system &#8220;for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.&#8221; The chutzpah. It burns.
Well-connected? Boudin has been endorsed by a who&#8217;s who of far-left celebrities, from Sanders to Hamas-linked &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; co-founder Linda Sarsour to Black Lives Matter hate crime hoax propagandist Shaun King to radical Chicago DA and Jussie Smollett fixer Kim Foxx to Black Panther Party commie revolutionary Angela Davis.
Wealthy? Boudin is the top fundraiser in the San Francisco DA&#8217;s race, raking in more than $623,000 in donations this year — a significant chunk from out-of-state academics, entertainment industry executives, and East Coast lawyers in New York and D.C. I discovered from Boudin&#8217;s most recent campaign finance disclosures that one of his top donors is Chloe Cockburn. She is a prominent partner of globalist billionaire George Soros&#8217; Democracy Alliance. Cockburn moderated a crucial 2017 summit with Soros and other deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists to strategize on taking over local and state offices to reclaim &#8220;our progressive future.&#8221; Other bigwig Boudin donors hail from the Soros-allied Tides Foundation and Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice.
What makes Boudin especially toxic is his family tree. Boudin is the militant offspring of spoiled-rich radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the violent Weather Underground terrorist group, which bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters, aided convicted felons in jailbreaks and participated in a 1981 Brink&#8217;s armored car holdup in Nyack, New York, with the Black Liberation Army. That crime took the lives of three innocent Americans — police officers Edward O&#8217;Grady and Waverly Brown and private security guard Peter Paige.
Kathy Boudin was an 11-year fugitive from justice after an accidental homemade bomb explosion at her New York City townhouse resulted in three other deaths. At the time of her arrest in Nyack, Boudin gave police one of many false identities she had used to evade the law. She was paroled in 2003 after convincing parole board members that she acted nobly out of &#8220;white guilt&#8221; to protest racism against blacks. (Reality check: Officer Waverly Brown was a black, working-class military veteran.) Gilbert remains in prison. Their story was glorified and romanticized by Robert Redford in the 2013 movie, &#8220;The Company You Keep.&#8221;
After Kathy Boudin dropped off toddler Chesa at a babysitter&#8217;s house so she could help perpetrate the bloody $1.6 million Brink&#8217;s heist, this privileged elitist was adopted by another pair of America-hating domestic agitators, unrepentant Weathermen colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers celebrated bombing the Pentagon in his radical memoir, &#8220;Fugitive Days,&#8221; taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and mentored Barack Obama. Dohrn declared war on &#8220;AmeriKKKa,&#8221; helped stage the &#8220;Days of Rage&#8221; in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as former director of the Legal Clinic&#8217;s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
Steeped in Marxist ideology and self-pity, Boudin moaned to The New York Times that he was &#8220;sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis&#8221; because they were &#8220;dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world.&#8221; No compassion for the families of the officers his parents helped murder, but the Yale grad and Rhodes Scholar did earn praise for his crusades against &#8220;urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala.&#8221;
Now Boudin wants to avenge his cop-killing parents by imposing &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; and &#8220;decarceration&#8221; policies that will incentivize violent crime and endanger lives in San Francisco and beyond. If you think California is on fire now, just wait until this red diaper baby takes control of the prosecutorial wheel.
Michelle Malkin &#8216;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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MALKIN: Radical Spawn Chesa Boudin: Nation’s Most Toxic DA Candidate

Chesa Boudin

President Trump on Saturday took aim at House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the dismal state of her home district, San Francisco.
Trump said the California Democrat ought to spend less time trying to impeach him, and more time fixing the city.
&#8220;I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!&#8221;
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I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars &#8211; and all she works on is Impeachment&#8230;..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054936942198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump has hammered lawmakers from various parts of the country over the ghastly state of their major cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
In July, Trump ripped former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who represented Baltimore before passing away this month.
&#8220;Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA&#8230;&#8230;
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately! &#8230; As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place,&#8221; Trump wrote.
During an interview with Fox News from Osaka, Japan, Trump said some U.S. cities run by Democrats are in bad shape.
“You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he said in July. “I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick – where the people living there are living in hell, too. Although some of them have mental problems, where they don’t even know they’re living that way. In fact perhaps they like living that way. &#8230; And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings, and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
Trump also talked about Pelosi&#8217;s city. “I own property in San Francisco &#8230; it was so beautiful,” he said. “And now areas that you used to think as being, you know, really something very special, you take a look at what’s going on with San Francisco, it’s terrible. So we’re looking at it very seriously,” he said, adding that his administration might “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up.”
San Francisco is literally overflowing with poo. “Since 2008, over 23,800 cases of human waste were reported in the heart of San Francisco. There were 13 reports of human feces in front of City Hall; 17 events at the U.S. Marshals office; and 67 reports at the Tenderloin police station on Eddy Street,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/#365c0b8b5ea5">Forbes</a> reported.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-Ive-ever-seen-488156431.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a> last year. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs – we’re talking about from humans.”

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed the city of San Francisco on Friday for blacklisting nearly two dozen states over pro-life legislation that those states have enacted.
&#8220;Progressive cancel culture is dumb,&#8221; Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/10/sasse-statement-on-san-francisco-s-nebraska-ban">press release</a>. &#8220;Most Nebraskans, like a whole bunch of Californians, are pro-life and want to reflect our pro-science, pro-woman, pro-baby beliefs with common-sense laws. Folks in San Francisco are free to disagree, but it&#8217;s childish to try to shut down a big cultural debate.&#8221;
&#8220;Pro-lifers aren&#8217;t out to silence the other side – we believe in persuasion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;San Francisco progressives can throw a tantrum – Nebraskans will continue to act like grownups.&#8221;
Sasse&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an announcement by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown, who authored <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3975467&amp;GUID=43DE4694-F5B2-4D0E-8AED-9D97BB52F794">the ordinance</a>, which not only restricts travel to the U.S. states that prohibit abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, but also declares the city&#8217;s decision to refrain from entering into any new contracts with companies that are headquartered in any of the blacklisted states, reported <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-16/san-francisco-blacklists-22-states-for-restrictive-abortion-laws">The Los Angeles Times</a>. Accordingly, nearly half the states in America are included on the blacklist.
&#8220;Every day in this country, women&#8217;s reproductive rights are threatened, and we have to fight back. Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women&#8217;s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms,&#8221; Breed said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.&#8221;
The aforementioned states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. However, California has already blacklisted nine of those same states over their LGBTQ stance, according to The Times.
All of these 22 states have prohibited abortions after at least 24 weeks. Five of them have proposed or enacted legislation to ban abortion based on the presence of a heartbeat, which occurs at approximately six weeks.
&#8220;Although tax revenue from San Francisco alone may not be sufficient to encourage states to rethink their laws, if other cities and states follow San Francisco&#8217;s lead, the financial pressure might be enough to prompt policy changes,&#8221; Breed&#8217;s office continued in a statement.
Sasse has been a staunch defender of the sanctity of life. In February, the Nebraska senator introduced legislation that, if enacted, would require medical care and legal protections to infants who survived attempted abortions. Sasse&#8217;s bill failed largely along party lines, with only three Democrats – Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Doug Jones (D-AL) – <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00027">voting for</a> the anti-infanticide legislation.
&#8220;The Democrats are also out of step with our fundamental American conviction that all men are created equal – all men and women and babies,&#8221; Sasse said while on the Senate floor in June. &#8220;Instead, they are increasingly committed to the proposition that some people are less than human, and are therefore disposable.&#8221;

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‘Progressive Cancel Culture Is Dumb’: Ben Sasse Goes Off On San Francisco’s Travel Ban

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A group of residents in San Francisco have come up with a novel solution to inhibit homeless people from camping on their residential street: placing roughly 25 boulders on the sidewalk.
Clinton Park in the city&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/environment/cities">Mission Dolores neighborhood</a> has been plagued by homeless people; one resident told <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/homeless/boulders-placed-on-san-francisco-sidewalk-to-keep-homeless-residents-away">KTVU</a>, &#8220;They&#8217;ll shoot up and stay overnight. A bunch of my neighbors, we all chipped in a few hundred dollars and I guess this is what they came up with.&#8221; Another resident added, &#8220;Since the rocks, it has helped,&#8221; neighbor Ernesto Jerez told KTVU. &#8220;It&#8217;s something. We&#8217;ve got to do something. I feel like there is nothing being done.&#8221;
Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homelessness, argued to KTVU, &#8220;There&#8217;s actually a name for it. It&#8217;s called anti-homeless architecture.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeless-crisis-san-francisco-neighborhood-boulder-sidewalk">Fox News</a> noted, “Similar landscaping measures have been implemented in other parts of the city. The California Department of Transportation has put rocks in an open space off Bayshore Boulevard to deter encampments, while the Eureka Valley-Harvey Milk Branch of the San Francisco Public Library – in the same neighborhood – has made design choices that are perceived as anti-homeless, according to KTVU.”
On Wednesday, radio host Mike Slater <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-slater-san-francisco-homeless-crisis-boulders">told </a>Fox &amp; Friends:
<blockquote>We’ve got people taking matters into their own hands is what we have because the governments of California refuse to do anything about this problem. They refused to do anything for decades, and the things that they are doing just make it worse; they make it worse for everyone: business owners, for families, and for homeless people. And so this is the one point, if I may, that I want to get across, especially to our progressive friends: It is not compassionate to let people sleep on the street, it is not compassionate for people who are mentally ill or addicted to spiral darker into their addiction and illness on the street. Critics of this say that it is inhumane to put these boulders out on the street; I say it’s inhumane to let people sleep on the street. We can’t allow this anymore; people need help, and people are taking last resorts; they’re doing anything they can because the government’s not doing anything.</blockquote>
Slater noted: “The government does this too; the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals building in San Francisco has metal spikes and metal bars over flat surfaces. Oakland’s city hall has spikes; this isn’t like an evil citizen thing to do. And these are good people who are doing this; these aren’t &#8216;evil conservatives&#8217; in San Francisco who are setting these boulders up.”
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-will-spend-more-70-million-year-just-emily-zanotti">reported</a> last May:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Cleaning-up-SF-s-Tenderloin-costs-a-lot-of-13808447.php?psid=2g32E">The San Francisco Chronicle reports</a> that the city has spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it&#8217;s nowhere near what is needed to make San Francisco&#8217;s streets safe for pedestrians. The city says crews are operating constantly, trying to get the &#8220;poop problem&#8221; that plagues San Francisco&#8217;s streets under control, but even as the city finds new and innovative ways for residents to report and avoid piles of feces on public sidewalks, the poop problem, they say, keeps growing.</blockquote>

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San Francisco Residents Discover Heavy Solution For Homeless Problem

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about President Trump’s recent California fundraisers and how Trump is using Hollywood leftists for his strategic advantage. Video and partial transcript below: 
President Trump got a great deal on his two- or three-day swing through California. He was just in Beverly Hills, and I think the total he&#8217;s taking out of that state is 15 million bucks. The big takeaway here for the Left, for the chattering class, is that 15 million bucks didn&#8217;t come from nowhere. We talk about California as though it&#8217;s just monolithic, completely leftist, there isn&#8217;t a conservative anywhere. I mean, I make jokes about it, too. But there are [conservatives there].
I mean, we used to have a group out in Los Angeles called “Friends of Abe,” and &#8220;Friends of Abe&#8221; was friends of Abraham Lincoln. It was all the secret conservatives in Hollywood. There were a lot of us. The Obama administration tried to get a list of our members. Everyone wanted to know who they were, because if you asked anybody in the industry they&#8217;d say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know any conservatives out here, I don&#8217;t need any conservatives in Hollywood.&#8221; And yet there were a lot. They just were afraid of speaking up because the Left is so vindictive in California.
I suppose this is what we mean by the phrase, &#8220;the silent majority.&#8221; Republicans — conservatives have been relying on that silent majority since Nixon, since Reagan, and all the way up through Trump. There are different names for them: The forgotten Americans, the great men and women of the middle of the country. Whatever, they&#8217;re out there. They&#8217;re even in California. I think what Trump is seeing here is [that] he doesn&#8217;t need to win California for California to help him win in 2020. You know it&#8217;s true.
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Hillary Clinton won California in a landslide. Trump got four and a half million votes there, four and a half million people voted for President Trump in 2016. That was the harder election to vote for Trump, because we didn&#8217;t know what he was going to do. We didn&#8217;t know how he was going to behave. He&#8217;s exceeded pretty much everybody&#8217;s expectations. We were told the economy was going to collapse, we were told we&#8217;re going to go to World War III, we were told all the terrible things would happen if Trump got elected. Instead, pretty much everything has improved. The economy&#8217;s great, we have record-low unemployment, relative peace abroad, re-negotiated trade deals. Things are looking pretty good.
How many votes is he going to get in 2020 [in California]? Enough to win? Almost certainly not, but it could galvanize some support for him. Four and a half million votes in 2016. He also raised $333 million in California in 2016. That&#8217;s a lot of money. What this tells you is there are Trump supporters in California. I probably know most of them personally, but there are [some], there actually are.
This isn&#8217;t even a Left/Right thing. Trump made a central pillar, of his fundraising swing through California, how the cities are deteriorating — Los Angeles and San Francisco. I live in L.A., [and it&#8217;s] falling apart. Homelessness is up 16% in just one year in L.A. San Francisco is falling apart, there are drugs all over the street, they&#8217;re decriminalizing the homeless behaviors there as well. There&#8217;s public defecation on the streets in San Francisco.
You don&#8217;t need to be some rock-ribbed Reaganite Republican to say this isn&#8217;t good, maybe we don&#8217;t want this, maybe we want the state to move in another direction. So I think Trump is very smart to bring this up — to talk about this. He was talking about L.A. homelessness; obviously the president of the United States is probably not going to fix a municipal problem like L.A. homelessness, but it&#8217;s a symbol for the rot that comes as a result of these leftist policies.
More importantly even than that, &#8230; the reason why Trump probably should swing back through Hollywood next time he gets a chance is just for the rest of the country. He gets to use Hollywood as a foil for him and for his policies. That liberal, vindictive Hollywood can be the foil. It&#8217;s like the anti-Trump. I mean, we saw just a few weeks ago the stars of &#8220;Will and Grace,&#8221; Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, who Trump then nicknamed Deborah &#8220;The Mess&#8221; Messing in his very Trumpian way. They came out and they called for the public naming of any Trump supporters in Hollywood.
We&#8217;re talking about McCarthyite blacklists. I even hesitate to use the term McCarthyite to describe what they were doing, because at least Joe McCarthy was going after communists, at least Joe McCarthy was going after enemies of America. Those two, Will and Grace, were going after people who support the president and saying — they said explicitly — we want you to name their names so we know who not to work with. We want you to name their names so we know who to blacklist, to ruin their reputations, ruin their careers, take away their livelihood. That is a bad look.
I mean, there was even some pushback from liberal Hollywood about that, and Trump gets to come out there and &#8230; trigger them [and] whip them up into [a] frenzy, and then show the rest of the country. So you have genuinely a choice, not an echo. You know Hollywood has widespread reach. They are exporters of culture, and so Will and Grace going out and calling for a blacklist, maybe it won&#8217;t change votes in California — it&#8217;s almost certainly not going to flip California to become some Republican state — but, that sort of vindictive leftism is not going to play in Peoria &#8230;
Every election is about a choice, if [you] have to choose between Trump who&#8217;s given us a pretty good economy — you know he&#8217;s got some mean tweets, but whatever, they&#8217;re pretty funny — and relative peace, and he actually seems pretty normal and [you] get to choose between that or these lunatics out there in Hollywood, who [are you] going to pick? Obviously, you&#8217;re going to pick President Trump.
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