Liberal San Francisco on brink of drug-testing welfare recipients: 'The pendulum is swinging'
Posted 64 days ago
From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
San Francisco residents will soon vote on measures that would implement drug screenings for welfare recipients as well as expand police powers, and polling shows they're likely to pass in the famously progressive city.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that partly due to the explosion of drug use and crime in the city, locals will be voting next Tuesday on this "pair of law-and-order ballot measures," with recent polling showing that more than half of likely voters support both.
Proposition F would require drug screening for people receiving public benefits and would force drug users to go into treatment if they want to continue receiving benefits.
Proposition E would give law enforcement better surveillance tools and rein in oversight over the force. The outlet explained it "would loosen restrictions on car chases" and "ease reporting requirements in use-of-force cases and end a requirement that the Board of Supervisors approve the purchase of technology such as drones."
According to a survey conducted by San Francisco’s Chamber of Commerce, 61% of voters support the ballot measures, while 72% believe the city is on the wrong track in general.
Crime and homelessness in the Bay Area have become a plague for residents, local business owners, and even visitors. Residents have relocated, beloved long-running businesses have shuttered, and people vacationing in the area have been mugged.
Even big corporate franchises like Nordstrom and Macy’s have decided to pull stores from the area because of rampant theft, and their consumers being scared away by crime.... (Read more)
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