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I thought it was expensive housing.

>>slante+(OP)
You thought wrong. SF gave out free syringes and created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/san-francisco-sign-stolen-...

>>ninety+O1
What does that snopes article have to do with what you said?

Free syringes make sense because people will find disease-prone means to get their fix, and then they end up in emergency rooms requiring more expensive care.

>>ninety+O1
Which part of that link is the part you mean to emphasize? Is it just Prop 47? Cause then a more direct link to it than to a picture of a fake sign would probably be more compelling. (And in that case, that's not a city-level law anyway.)

>>majorm+43
The sign illustrates the spirit of the law. I'd rather talk about that then the technicalities of a legal document.

>>kuriku+W2
The sign is a satirical prank made to show awareness of a specific law.

>>ninety+O1
> SF ... created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves.

You're right in that SF does way too much to accommodate robber barons, tech moguls, heavily-subsidized Silicon Valley industries, and housing speculators.

>>ninety+O1
That link proves you wrong

>>ninety+O1
The sign refers to Proposition 47 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47), a statewide initiative that passed in 2014; it's absurd to blame the city of San Francisco for it.