Hi Claycord! Long time listener, first time caller, lol. Anyway, I was driving today, looked over and was shocked to see what I saw in the attached picture. I get being homeless. I was actually pretty close to being homeless at one point in my life. But why must people just completely trash the area they’re living in, and why aren’t our local (useless) officials doing anything about it? Why do we just look the other way when someone is homeless and committing crimes, as if the rules don’t apply to them? It’s so frustrating to see our local cities turn into trash. And don’t get me started on how many homeless people start fires. If I started a fire in the street in front of my house, and it burned the surrounding vegetation, I’d most likely be cited for arson.
The “SOUND OFF” on Claycord.com is basically a “Letters to the Editor,” but with a kick to it. We’ll post items that might not otherwise make it in your local paper. It’s a way to voice one’s opinions freely and vigorously. If you have something you’d like to SOUND OFF about, email us at news@claycord.com, and we’ll consider posting. We will add no commentary. All opinions expressed are the opinions of the person sounding off, and not the opinions of Claycord.com, its advertisers or anyone else besides the person sounding off.
Feel free to add your comment below….
I’d call the cops everyday but they can’t do much about it.
Even if the feral people did enough to be arrested they’d just come right back the next day.
There was a nutjob homeless person in a town near me who would commit petty crimes and get arrested every week, then come right back…… until that person deliberately set a building on fire, that did it.
Been gone about 8 months so far.
It’s pathetic that the homeless leave such a mess, but in reality, I’m not surprised. It’s not like they have garbage service that will come pick up their trash. They don’t care and this is the end result.
California is a great place to be homeless and get paid for it.
.
As to competency of democrat politicians in California,
“Just a few months after Gavin Newsom was sworn in as mayor of San Francisco in 2004, he announced a plan to get all of the city’s chronically homeless residents off the streets within 10 years.”
sacbee https://tinyurl.com/vdw3uhau
.
What about SF ?
“A self-proclaimed’ old-school junkie’ who moved from Texas to San Francisco because ‘it’s f*****g easy’ to be homeless there claims he’s being paid by the city government to live on the streets, getting $620 in cash per month and hundreds of food stamps while he sells Narcan and enjoys Amazon Prime and Netflix on his phone.
.
‘This right now is literally by choice, literally by choice. If we’re going to be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here,’ James, a homeless man with face tattoos who has been living in San Francisco since June…” …
.
“…it only took one phone call to receive government assistance, including hundreds in cash and food stamps worth approximately $100, and notes that the ‘free money’ is motivation to remain homeless.”
dailymail https://tinyurl.com/bdhc5put
.
Self medication is another problem of many homeless.
When personal drug use became a misdemeanor (Prop 47) it took an extremely successful tool away from Judges. Ability to impose a harsh Felony sentence which would be immediately stayed, provided defendant got clean-n-sober, stayed that way and maintained steady employment. Defendant was placed on 3 – 5 years of probation with the VERY CLEAR understanding if terms of probation were not adhered to the original Felony sentence would immediately be imposed.
Saw that method work from 1983 to 2014, more times than I can count.
.
These days IF a substance abuser even gets to Court and Judge learns of substance abuse and offers treatment, defendants decline opting instead for jail. Knowing full well due to jail overcrowding they’ll be back out on our streets after serving a mere fraction of their sentence and long before a 90 day treatment program would end. They’re turned back onto our streets with their addiction behavior intact. Prop 36 did much to restore Judges ability to force substance abusers to hit bottom.
.
Then there is,
the problem of which we do not speak of, . . . . mental health.
Leave a mess?
they leave a hazmat situation.
Do we pay for a dumpster?
porta-potty , if so how many?
Sharps container for needles?
what about showers and how many a day?
Because the people who run the cities in this area are liberals?
What would conservative leaders do to eliminate the problem?
It’s us. We elect people that consider a tent on concrete and some fentanyl to get you through the night or OD as compassion.
I don’t look the other way – I’ll say something, do something…. .but alss know Becton won’t back us or LE up – unless she gets with prop 36 soon maybe we’ll be looking for a replacement
For 3 weeks we’ve had a pile of garbage from the homeless encampment just yards away sitting just over the shoulder on the westbound on ramp entrance to southbound SR242 at Olivera Road. The City of Concord doesn’t clean it up because they believe it’s state property, the State of California won’t clean it up because they believe it’s Contra Costa Water District property, the Contra Costa Water District won’t clean it up because they believe it’s state property, and the homeless encampment just adds to the pile of garbage. Jurisdictional incompetence is the problem here. Nobody in government seems to want to do the right thing and just clean up the garbage. Everyone in elective office seems to want to move on to higher office and therefore they’re unwilling to do anything that may tarnish their reputations to party voters.