(Washington Examiner) - The San Francisco public poop problem is escalating as incidents have gone up 7% in 2019 and are on track to hit an all-time high.
RentHop, a property rental company, used publicly available data to show the poop situation in the California city is getting worse. In 2019, there were 25,000 complaints during the first ten months of the year, which is on track to beat the 28,000 incidents from last year.
San Francisco, in 2017, had 20,800 poop incidents reported, which is about 450 incidents per square mile of the city.
The next year, the city established a "Poop Patrol," a pilot program that seeks to fight homelessness and human waste problems. The program came with an estimated cost of $750,000.
This month, San Francisco elected a new district attorney who promised he "will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes." "Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc ... should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness," Chesa Boudin said.
The city's poop problem has significantly escalated since 2011 when it had only 5,547 incidents of public pooping.
Open the Books has created a pinned map where people can view the location of every public pooping reported in San Francisco since 2011.
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