Whatever the Poop Patrol will be wearing as they power-wash feces off San Francisco's sidewalks, let's hope they get a great embroidered patch.
Armed with steam cleaners, a crew from the city's department of public works will target downtown alleys and sidewalks for human and animal droppings starting next month, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. They'll start their vigil in the afternoon, aiming to clear deposits that appear after overnight crews have done their cleaning, but before any residents complain.
In the eyes of conservative media outlets, San Francisco's ongoing shit saga is the latest expression of progressive urban politics gone haywire. That's not true. That there are "more feces on sidewalks than I have ever seen," as Mayor London Breed recently observed, doesn't reflect faulty ideology. But it is, plainly, the result of bad policy. In fact, sidewalks have long been a dumping ground for all kinds of policy failures—not just in San Francisco, though it is particularly vivid there, and not just related to public health.
[For more on this story by LAURA BLISS, go to https://psmag.com/social-justi...s-up-on-the-sidewalk]
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