Rats, Public Defecation, & Open Drug Use: Our Major Western Cities Are Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes

Brad Trittipo

Regular Member
Rats, Public Defecation, & Open Drug Use: Our Major Western Cities Are Becoming Uninhabitable Hellholes

Those that must live among the escalating decay are often numb to it, but most of those that are just in town for a visit are absolutely shocked by all of the trash, human defecation, crime and public drug use that they encounter. Once upon a time, our beautiful western cities were the envy of the rest of the world, but now they serve as shining examples of America’s accelerating decline. The worst parts of our major western cities literally look like post-apocalyptic wastelands, and the hordes of zombified homeless people that live in those areas are too drugged-out to care. The ironic thing is that these cities are not poor. In fact, San Francisco and Seattle are among the wealthiest cities in the entire nation. So if things are falling apart this dramatically now, how bad will things get when economic conditions really start to deteriorate?

Let’s start our discussion by looking at the rat epidemic in Los Angeles. Thanks to extremely poor public sanitation, rats are breeding like mad, and at this point they have even conquered Los Angeles City Hall

Officials at Los Angeles’ City Hall are considering ripping all of the building’s carpets up, as rats and fleas are said to be running riot in its halls.
A motion was filed by Council President Herb Wesson on Wednesday to enact the much needed makeover amid a typhus outbreak in the downtown area.​
Wesson said a city employee had contracted the deadly bacterial disease at work, and now he’s urging officials to investigate the ‘scope’ of the long-running pest problem at the council building.​


People from all over the world are drawn to Los Angeles because of what they have seen on television, but it is truly a filthy, filthy place. The number of homeless has been rising about 20 percent a year, public drug use is seemingly everywhere, and there are mountains of trash all over the place. Needless to say, rats thrive in such an environment, and the epic battle that one L.A. journalist is having with rats was recently featured in the L.A. Times

Eastside, Westside, north and south, they’re everywhere. If you’re a rat, the California housing crisis has not hit you yet and it never will.​
At our house, it sounded like the rats were having relay races in the ceiling, and they don’t wear sneakers. Your eyes blink and your leg twitches as you drift off to sleep knowing that if the plague comes back, you are living at ground zero.​
In our garden, they devoured entire heads of lettuce. They destroyed my squash just before it was ripe and ready to eat. They stole my tomatoes, cilantro and Anaheim chili peppers. Were they bottling their own salsa?​
But let’s not be too hard on Los Angeles, because the same things that are going on there are happening in major cities all over the western portion of the country.

For example, a massive rat infestation recently forced authorities to close a shockingly filthy homeless encampment under a bridge in Salem, Oregon

Amid the trash, human despair and anguish, one weeping woman prepared to leave the most recent place she knows as home without any real inkling of where she’ll go next.​
Terry Balow, an outreach worker with the Salvation Army, has been here for the darker moments of living life under a bridge — anger, mental illness, drug use and human frustration boiling over at times everywhere one looks.​
Yet it was a rat infestation and concern about human health that prompted the city of Salem to move the campers out.​
“It just grew and grew and got worse,” Balow said. “It’s badder than people can imagine.”

Yes, there have always been homeless encampments in this country, but in modern times we have never faced anything on the scale that we are facing now.

More than half a million Americans are homeless right now, and that number continues to grow. And as it grows, communities will increasingly be forced to make some tough decisions.

I am quite eager to talk about San Francisco, but before we get to the City by the Bay, let’s take note of something that just happened in Denver.

If you are into public defecation, you will be very happy to learn that Denver just made it legal

First, the obvious: The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to decriminalize a number of offenses, including defecating in public. Also, urinating in public. Camping on public or private land without permission. Panhandling. And lying across public rights-of-way, such as sidewalks.​
Democrat Mayor Michael Hancock and city officials explained the new ordinances are designed to protect immigrants — legal and the other kind — from “unintended consequences.” These consequences were fines and longer jail terms, as has been customary in most places for violating the behavioral norms of civilized American society.​
If only America’s founders could see us now.

They would be so proud.

Speaking of public defecation, San Francisco has become world famous for the piles of human poop that constantly litter their streets. During one seven day stretch last summer, a total of 16,000 official complaints were submitted to the city about human feces.

Blessed with such beautiful natural surroundings and so much wealth, San Francisco should be a great place to visit, but that definitely is not the case.

When reporter John Stossel recently visited San Francisco, he was stunned by what he found

San Francisco is a pretty good place to “hang out with a sign.” People are rarely arrested for vagrancy, aggressive panhandling or going to the bathroom in front of people’s homes. In 2015, there were 60,491 complaints to police, but only 125 people were arrested.​
Public drug use is generally ignored. One woman told us, “It’s nasty seeing people shoot up — right in front of you. Police don’t do anything about it! They’ll get somebody for drinking a beer but walk right past people using needles.”
In San Francisco they actually give out free syringes to drug addicts, and it is being reported that they handed out a total of 5.8 million free syringes in 2018.

That is a lot of syringes.

They also try to get the syringes back in order to prevent the spread of disease, but that hasn’t been too successful

There’s just one problem – well, more than one – despite spending an extra $1.8 million last year in an effort to retrieve needles, the San Francisco Chronicle reportsthat the department handed out about 2 million more syringes than it got back… many of which are now washing around the streets of one of the richest cities in America (along with the feces of their users).​
And with so much public drug use going on, it should be no surprise that crime is completely and totally out of control. Here is more from John Stossel

Each day in San Francisco, an average of 85 cars are broken into.
“Inside Edition” ran a test to see how long stereo equipment would last in a parked car. Their test car was quickly broken into. Then the camera crew discovered that their own car had been busted into as well.​
It has been said that “as goes California, so goes the country”, and if this is where the rest of the nation is headed then we are in serious trouble.

When Bill Blain recently visited San Francisco, he was so horrified by what he encountered that he felt he must write about it

I hope my American hosts will forgive me for raising this, but the squalor we saw in The City was frightful. San Francisco has always been one of favourite US cities, but the degree of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse we saw on this trip was truly shocking. Walking round SF on a Sunday Morning and we saw sights we couldn’t believe. This must be one of the richest cities in the world – home to 4 of the 10 richest people on the planet according to Wiki. I asked friends about it, and they shrugged it off.. “The City has always attracted the homeless because of the mild weather,”.. “It’s a drug thing”.. “its too difficult”… “you get used to it..”
Well, I didn’t.​
I found it quite shocking the number of folk sleeping rough on the sidewalks, the smell of weed and drug impedimenta everywhere, the filth, mental illness and degradation on view just a few meters from the financial centre driving Silicon Valley. It’s a city where the destitute seem to have become invisible to the Uber hailing elites. We found ourselves hopping on one of the beautiful F-Route Trolley Buses to find nearly every seat occupied by someone lugging around their worldly possessions around in a plastic bag. It was desperately sad.
San Francisco has a new mayor, and they are going to spend millions upon millions of dollars to try to clean up the streets.

But it won’t be easy to turn things around, because more drug users and homeless people are moving into the city every single day

And San Francisco is generous. It offers street people food stamps, free shelter, train tickets and $70 a month in cash.
“They’re always offering resources,” one man dressed as Santa told us. “San Francisco’s just a good place to hang out.”​
So, every week, new people arrive.
We like to think that we are setting a positive example to the rest of the world, but the truth is that they are laughing at us.

America is in an advanced state of decay, and it is getting worse with each passing year.

If we keep doing the same things we will keep getting the same results, and right now there are no signs that the overall direction of this nation will change any time soon.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...rug-use-our-major-western-cities-are-becoming
 

tmoore

Member
its completely out of touch with reality to blame the state of this country on one man. these problems are rooted allot deeper than who happens to be the sitting president. this sort of thing is the result of a spider web of poor policies and greed over decades. we absolutely have the money and resources to help alleviate these issues but we as the american people decide to put our money elsewhere. yes politicians and policy makers are a part of the puzzle but in a democratic republic we the people share the blame as well. you vote with your dollar.
 

tmoore

Member
We became a third world Country as soon as the jug eared kenyan was elected. This is the chickens coming home to roost.
I would urge you too take that "jug eared Kenyan" horse shit somewhere else. I know its easy to be mean on the internet and few people on this forum have support for him as a president but there is merit to speaking about people with respect. this forum is great for intelligent conversation, lets keep it that way.


back on topic I have absolutely noticed an increase in homeless population and substance addiction, they seem to go hand in hand for the most part. I live in an area where homelessness has been largely ignored and considered a non issue. im pretty rural so you don't see the homeless that are here, they live in tents in the woods or couch surf from house to house. i live in a small tourist town so the police will boot out anybody they see sleeping on a bench. I work at and personally aided in the opening of the first homeless shelter my small town of 6,000 or so has ever seen. we specifically target families who have children going to school in our school district. if you had asked me 15 years ago i would have said no fucking way do we need that, we are full. the opiate epidemic has hit NH pretty hard as well so that will definitely exasperate the problem. i am not talking about a city on the west coast im talking about a small town in the east, this issue is everywhere for sure.
 

Seth Thompson

Regular Member
These problems aren't confined to big cities. The biggest factors in my area seem to be pills, meth and lack of mental health resources.

The "lack of mental health resources" part is most aggravating, due to the fact that we do have access to hospitals, mental care facilities and mental health professionals, but at times it seems like they are very reluctant to do their jobs.

I've also experienced a fair amount of "off-loading" of responsibility for mental care, from the facilities and people who allegedly do this "for real", onto the backs of the average patrol cops and the local taxpayers.
 

HighTower

Regular Member
Growing up in sonoma county and having family in Frisco made for quarterly trips. While these issues to one degree or another still existed, they have spread beyond jusy back alleys. It is mind blowing what has happenend in the laat 25 years.

Orange county is trying to catch up to Frisco.

As long as incentive policies exist, these problems will only continue to grow.
 

WAVandal

Regular Member
IF you haven't seen it yet, the documentary "Seattle Is Dying" put out by KOMO News is scarily accurate. It can also apply to San Fransisco, LA, and Portland, OR. It appears Austin, TX is trying like hell to become one of them too with their mayor and chief of police.

They are all facing the same or similar problems but no one wants to do anything about it. The non-profits see it as a local, state, and federal grant funds gravy train. The prosecutor's offices are politicized (read: liberal) and carefully select which crimes to prosecute and what to ignore and let slide. Mayors and city councils are trying to out liberal each other. The locals are unhappy but don't want to say anything or risk being seen as not having "compassion". In the end, no one does much of anything.

I work as a cop in King County, WA and we have access to so many different services for the drug addicted and homeless it is mind boggling. Those who are still out on the streets and walking around as drug zombies are doing it by choice. They have everything they need readily available, free food, free medical, free legal aid, shelter when they want to get out of the weather for a day or two, and layers of bloody do-gooders there to coddle them and make excuses for their lifestyle. Yet, somehow as a patrol officer, I'm now a mental health counselor and if things go bad it is my fault.
I've involuntarily committed people only to see them back on the streets hours later causing more issues, having been declared medically OK by the hospital and never seeing a real mental health pro.

Seattle Is Dying, KOMO News
 

rbhaxton72

Newbie
This isn't a recent problem with these major cities, albeit recently these issues discussed has been exasperated. These problems have been occurring for decades. Why have they been exasperated? Why is there an uptick of homelessness, illicit drug use and degradation of human standards and norms? I think there are numerous reasons and common factors one could point to as to find the root cause of this decline of our once great cities.

I think the idea of what has become socially and morally acceptable in these locales are divergent of what the norms are for the rest of America. Lewd and rancorous behavior are the rule of the day for many of these major cities, and if people don't agree with this mindset, then you are labeled homophobic, islamaphobe, instaphobe, phobophobe, etc. The "Broken Windows Theory" rings true in this sense that when the police don't enforce what are deemed petty crimes and misdemeanors, then usually leads to a decay of rule of law or law and order. The petty crime offender in these large cities are generally the same offenders committing more serious crimes and felonies. This theory was put into practice in New York City during the Rudy Guiliani period and violent crime went down. Murders went from 2500 a year to 400. These cities generally have city officials and an electorate who do not support their LEO's, which lead to some LEO's in these locations to choose not to go into certain portions of their jurisdictions, fearful that a confrontation which will lead to some use of force incident will not be supported by their chain of command or city administrators. Which brings me to my next point.

These cities are run by Left-wing activists who are beholden to their left wing base and maintaining their power base of control. This base and city officials by in large have not generally supported rule of law or the police as a whole. Leading to chaos in many of these locales. One can look to one city in the news recently, the city of Baltimore's response following the Freddy Gray incident in which the Mayor gave a green light to looters and rioters to burn the city down. The free reign to lawless leads to the breakdown of society. Which is what these cities are experiencing. The justice system in these cities is also typically ineffective and dysfunctional, handing down light sentences for repeat violent offenders or not finding any fault at all to these offenders.

The other common factor is the legalization and normalization of illicit drug use. One can look at many of the hardcore drug users and can honestly come the conclusion that these are not "victimless" crimes. Usually there are other crimes to innocents occurring when rampant drug users have free reign to use narcotics as they seem fit. Many of these drug users will commit other crimes in order to finance their procurement of whatever narcotics they are using.

Another factor is education. Baltimore schools take in more money per student than most of the public schools within the United States, however students from these schools are some of the least educated in basic education. Throwing more money onto a dumpster fire is not going to put out the fire. Holding school boards, school administrators and teachers accountable, while allowing school of choice would be more suitable than being beholden to the government mandated public school system.

The question is, will this situation with these cities get worse or better over time? Not sure how it will play out. The problem is that many of these cities populations in the inner urban areas are "institutionalized" within their cities and have accepted their new norms. If they didn't, they would have voted in better people to run their cities, instead of who they have now.
 
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