Laura Ingraham exposes San Francisco's decline

i'm here tonight in san francisco and remember it's nancy pelosi's congressional district for more than three decades wouldn't you kind of think that the hometown of the house speaker would be a desirable and safe place to live she's worth hundreds of millions of dollars herself after all but the reality here is much darker since 2019 homicides have risen 30 burglaries shot up 51 percent and the homelessness situation you can't really describe it you have to see it same thing with drug abuse rampant so i went down to the tenderloin district today and i spent some time with some of san francisco's finest police officers in the association president tony montoya to see the city's decline first hand and learn how it's connected to these destructive policies of the d.a chesa boudin a lot of the violent crimes are up because of chesabodine's policies it's a catch and release i've said he's got the swiftest revolving door in the criminal justice system where it's very it's a small group of people committing these crimes again and again and again and they're doing so because they realize as long as chester bodine's in office there are no consequences for their bad behavior there's people laying out all over the place just a minute ago uh where this white bandage park there was a gentleman sitting on the sidewalk in broad daylight with kids playing on the playground smoking crack cocaine right here by the police department so the police station is here and crack cocaine is there 30 feet away it's right here yeah and they do so knowing that for some reason if they were to get caught there's gonna be zero consequences for their behavior zero consequences for smoking crack 25 yards from the police absolutely and 25 yards from the school right once they get hooked on the drugs um which is kind of a downward spiral it's a spiral i mean it's not from lack of resources you know san francisco spends nearly 1 billion with a b dollars a year for all the different non-profits and services they offer to these people but some people just don't want the help if i wanted to buy a crack right you know within this kind of three block area how hard would it be to get cracked not hard at all how long would it take me to get crack under a minute how about heroin same thing fentanyl same easy to get very easy to get prop 47 can go in and basically take 950 worth of merchandise from any store complete disaster uh george gascon was one of the co-authors or sponsored that and they sold it as kind of a safe streets uh safe schools so it's meant to help you guys right yes so police wouldn't be inundated with shoplifting and so forth it was sold that way to the voters as making things safer out here what it is it turned a lot of felonies down to misdemeanors specifically theft um anything that valued at 950 is now a misdemeanor not a felony yeah so you'll actually see people on camera with a calculator whether it's a handheld calculator on their phone adding up the cost of the merchandise they're stealing to stay under the 950 fresh got it in this particular block we have a row going all the way up the block of homeless people living outdoor tents people doing their laundry in the street i guess they're siphoning off the fire hydrant here and god bless them trying to do some laundry with some detergent um he wants crystal and a crack pipe this is kind of what the tenderloin is about it's um it's truly sad um you know this is a relatively quiet block at the moment this is a quiet block um there's other blocks that are a lot worse where do the people go to the bathroom and these right here on the street corner that's that unfortunately that's that unpleasant odor we're smelling it's a smell of pot human feces you're in kind of all together right and these people are literally living in those squalled conditions i mean these are some third world country type conditions you don't have to go to afghanistan to see no bad conditions no no some of the locals saw us filming here in the tenderloin district and they had their own views about why these problems persist a lot of wonderful things are happening yeah you know what i mean you can get a free meal you can also get housing but we need permanent housing for folks down here in the coronary virus epidemic and they even had their own thoughts about sending billions overseas when there's so much suffering here at home how can i help the people and i got people right here do you think we should be keep continuing to have all these foreign wars in afghanistan spending the money there we need to start taking care of home so we obviously have an enormous problem with homelessness in the city that's only gotten worse and worse so the last 20 years since i've been coming here 25 years exponentially worse continues to get worse um as i pointed out you know with the the open air drug market um more people died last year fentanyl overdoses than they did of the covid virus um and a lot of that has to do with you know chesabodine refusing to prosecute people that are out there selling drugs they have walked into a sleeping giant with your average citizens because they are just getting fed up and where people used to say crimes were contained in the tenderloin it's now ballooned to every corner of the city

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Length: 5min 25sec (325 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 24 2021