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Posted on 07/03/2018 9:23:59 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Tourists are turning away from the City by the Bay, while a huge medical convention has cancelled plans to meet in San Francisco, saying its members don’t feel safe on the streets.
Locals may feel comfortable, but visitors are often shocked when the reality of San Francisco’s streets is a far cry from its postcard image.
Tourists once took home memories of famed cable cars. These days, too often it is of the image of someone begging, or dancing in circles, or just wandering around the streets intoxicated or mentally ill.
“You can smell it,” says one tourist.
“I come from a third world county and it is not as bad as this,” says another.
Now it’s seriously affecting the city’s biggest business: tourism.
“They feel their safety is as risk because they are seeing so many people with issues,” says Kevin Carroll of the San Francisco Hotel Council.
“They see people laying on the streets — petty crimes going on in the streets,” says Joe D’Alessandro with Travel SF.
Tourism rakes in $9 billion per year in San Francisco, so officials have been reluctant to go public with the problem. In part, it is because it makes the city look bad and that’s bad for business.
“Restaurants, taxis, people spend more money outside hotels than inside and for that reason it is something we should all be concerned about,” says Carroll.
A major medical association has pulled its $40 million convention out of San Francisco over the state of the streets.
“The convention felt that the streets of San Francisco are not a place that a lot of their delegates wanted to come to,” says Alessandro.
The medical group is not alone.
“A number of groups are concerned about the streets of San Francisco,” says Alessandro. “They say ‘we don’t know if the streets are safe, we don’t know if we want to meet here.’”
San Francisco spends over $300 million each year on housing and homeless programs, but you wouldn’t know it walking down Market Street.
“It’s obviously not making the difference that it needs to,” says Carroll.
“We are not going to able to accept bad behavior going forward,” says Alessandro. “We have to be compassionate about people in need – but if people are breaking the law.”
Alessandro has been saying this for years but the problem persists.
“There have been some steps in the right direction -we just need a lot more,” he says.
The hotel industry is pressing for a heightened police presence in tourist spots to give people the feeling of safety and comfort. They also want the existing laws on drugs and loitering better-enforced.
Revenge ain’t smelly.
Probably don’t want Mad Maxi’s Retard Army crashing their convention. Normal people may want to stay away from that joint for a while. Those “progs” are crazy.
If only there was a fast Bullet Train that the visitors could admire.
Seattle is also losing convention business for the same reasons.
"...Retard Army..."
KPIX is the CBS affiliate in SF. Here’s a previous post of mine to coverage from KGO, the ABC affiliate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3667981/posts
“If you’re going to San Francisco,
be sure to wear”.....a hazmat suit
over your bullet proof vest.
Those cities need mayors like Giuliani. Even Bloomberg wasn’t so bad. The current one sucks (Marxist Dem)and things have been going downhill ever since.
Bring your conventions here while it’s still safe and interesting!
Quite literally, the money quote from this article:
“San Francisco spends over $300 million each year on housing and homeless programs...”
Sure as crap ain’t chickenfeed. Gotta wonder how much are Feddybux, and how much of that comes from local or California state taxes.
If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some Kevlar on your head
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re gonna meet some crazy people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a drug den there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with needles in thier arms.
All across the nation such a strange situation
Rich People in motion
There’s a whole generation that are lost and stoned
Rich People in motion Warped people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some boots upon your feet
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime they’re crapping in the streets
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime they’re crapping in the streets
They should work out some deal and just ship these folks to New Mexico, and pay them to temp-house the folks.
The shithawks have taken over Frisco. Who would want to go there?
Yes, - it’s safe to say you can stick a fork in all of California. It’s ruined. That’s what they wanted and that’s what they got.
I wouldn’t go to California now for all the Tea in China.
The once a time GEM of California is gone for good and it’s not ever coming back. Great Job people.
I can recall business trips to CA in the 1980’s. It was nice back then.
San Diego, LA, San Fran, all nice. The people were different from what I was used to, MidWest USA. Not evil, like now, but different nevertheless.
Now, with all due respect to FReepers who live in CA, I wouldn’t visit there on a bet.
It’s a shame to sit and watch CA dissolve into a reeking pit.
In the last year 150 people in downtown SD died of hepititas from homeless urinating and dedicating on the street. Now they spray the street and sidewalk 3 times week at a cost of tens of thousands month.
Just keep voting Democrat and looking the other way over voter fraud and corruption San Fran-Detroit is coming into view.
Leftist thinking.
They think that they can solve human misery by throwing money at it.
Government spending on a human problem exacerbates the problem.
When it comes to government spending you get more of what you pay for.
Spend government money on illiteracy you get more illiteracy.
Spend government money on homeless people you get more homeless people.
Creative people will find away to those government dollars.
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