“How is it that we now accept as normal, people sleeping and p***ing and s***ing and God knows what else in the streets????”
Man, you hit a nerve with me. I have a two-story commercial office building in a well-known SF Bay Area city. This week, we have had to clean up both sh!t and pee from both our stairwells. So after the “second occurrence,” I decided to “stake out my own property.” Sure enough, by 10 p.m. I had a guy sleeping on the second floor, so I called the cops to have him arrested (we have the building posted to facilitate the cops doing their duty). Seems as though all the cops on the night shift were busy on a single high-priority call, so they didn’t get around to me until almost 1 a.m. So what did they do? They rousted the guy, issued him a citation, and sent him on his way! Seems as though CA now classifies this kind of intrusion as a misdemeanor and they cannot arrest him. And FWIW, they told me that now breaking into your car in CA is also a misdemeanor with the same procedure, so long as the thief takes $900 or less out of your vehicle.
This is why people install sprinklers with random timings.