Posted on 05/05/2024 12:36:29 PM PDT by grundle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine.
Along the way in one of America’s most notorious neighborhoods, she calls out to politely alert people huddled on sidewalks, some holding strips of tin foil topped with illicit drugs.
“Good afternoon, happy Monday!” Alabsi says to two men, one slumped forward in a wheelchair and wearing soft hospital socks and one slipper. Her voice is cheerful, a soothing contrast to the misery on display in the 50-block neighborhood that's well-known for its crime, squalor and reckless abandon. “School time. Kids will be coming soon.”
Further along, Alabsi passes a man dancing in the middle of the street with his arms in the air as a squealing firetruck races by. She stops to gently touch the shoulder of a man curled up in the fetal position on the sidewalk, his head inches from the tires of a parked car.
“Are you OK?” she asks, before suggesting he move to a spot out of the sun. “Kids will be coming soon.”
Minutes later, Alabsi arrives at the Tenderloin Community Elementary School, where she is among several adults who escort dozens of children to after-school programs. The students hitch up backpacks emblazoned with Spider Man and the sisters of “Frozen,” then form two rambunctious lines that follow Alabsi like ducklings through broken streets.
The smallest ones hold hands with trusted volunteers.
Long known for its brazen open-air drug markets, chronic addiction, mental illness and homelessness, the Tenderloin neighborhood is also home to the highest concentration of kids in San Francisco
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Sure wish the Supreme Court would go back and re-think their decision to shut down the state mental health systems.
Biden’s America
So surprising things are so bad in San Francisco, considering they kept voting in the ‘greatest Speaker of the House’. She should truly be ashamed of herself, but she won’t be. She doesn’t have the integrity.
San Francisco politicians have obviously abandoned their basic responsibilities. Honor to the folks who are helping the little kids here. This will work, until some druggie with a knife attacks one of the safety escorts.
LibTard hell!
OOH! a vest and a voice, unless they are wearing body armor and the voice is the report from a trench shotgun...BFD!
The demomrats did this.
God bless these “escorts” and the children walking through this hell on earth.
Blame the ACLU.
THEY pressured Reagan.
In re the escorts what sort of training and background check are we go through here?
Beware that the helpers may actually be predators. Does no one have any common sense?
i wonder if the “safe passage” label helps to stop bullets ...
Are they armed? If not, useless monitors.
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