re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, some control is reasonable, but the point of a lot of such regulation and legislation is to make it impossible or unfeasible to feed the needy and homeless.

The other question is, if you’re not going to do ENOUGH, what less than that can you do that doesn’t make things worse?

Back when we lived in SF, Mayor Agnos let it be known that he’d told the SFPD not to hassle anyone in Civic Center Plaza for homelssness, begging, vagrancy, camping in public, etc. Pretty soon, Civic Center Plaza became a homeless encampment, full of tents, shopping carts, drugs, public urination and defecation, etc. It came to be known as ‘Camp Agnos’.

Though his original announcement was widely applauded by liberal San Franciscans, it’s a big reason why he only served one term, and was replaced by the former Police Chief.