{"id":67390,"date":"2018-07-09T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67390"},"modified":"2018-07-09T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:58:31","slug":"a-cold-caracas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67390","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Caracas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where San Francisco has gone – a hideously expensive city with plummeting quality of life – New York will soon follow<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Beautiful, hilly San Francisco has become known as the city where 20 pounds of poop were dumped on a sidewalk last week in a clear bag and remained there for hours.\u00a0As The Post noted<\/a>, \u201chuman waste-related complaints in San Francisco have skyrocketed 400 percent from 2008 to 2018,\u201d and \u201cIn 2017 alone, more than 21,000 reports were received.\u201d<\/p>\n

What happened in San Francisco is obvious. It stopped prosecuting quality-of-life offenses and, unsurprisingly, the quality of life for the city\u2019s residents and visitors decreased sharply.<\/p>\n

In 2015, San Francisco courts stopped enforcing bench warrants for such offenses. Police continued writing up tickets for public drunkenness or sleeping in parks, but when the accused failed to show up to their court appearance a judge simply dismissed the outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n

New York started following San Francisco\u2019s lead in 2016 when Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced his office would no longer be prosecuting offenses such as public urination. Both cities have accepted that they\u2019ll continue to have a large number of people living on their streets and inevitably using their sidewalks as a toilet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Progressivism is all about leveling the world out (outside the parts where the\u00a0kommissars\u00a0<\/em>life, anyway); logically, eventually, “leveled out” has to include “…to the level of public rest room”.<\/p>\n

Although as Ed Driscoll notes, at least some people are getting their wish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But\u00a0as Dan Henninger of the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>warned in 2005<\/a>, hipsters lamented the loss of the gritty\u00a0Death Wish\/Panic in Needle Park<\/em>-era Manhattan of the 1970s \u2014 and thanks to Mayor de Blasio, they\u2019re getting that city back once again. Good and hard, as Mencken would say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And since Minneapolis is following the same route – obsessing over virtue-signaling while ignoring quality of life issues<\/a> – how long until Minneapolis follows suit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where San Francisco has gone – a hideously expensive city with plummeting quality of life – New York will soon follow: Beautiful, hilly San Francisco has become known as the city where 20 pounds of poop were dumped on a sidewalk last week in a clear bag and remained there for hours.\u00a0As The Post noted, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67391,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390\/revisions\/67391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}