Well, as much as I detest Newsom, he does have a point, even if it's for the wrong reasons. Clearing out a couple of blocks of the homeless for a photo-op is misguided, but if he cleared out the ENTIRE homeless population from public-owned streets, that would serve to make the place more livable.

As a society, we've come to "tolerate" way too much dysfunction... the "broken window" syndrome and all that. It started by tolerating minor things, and has expanded to tolerance of ANYTHING GOES!

Let's get this straight... open air drug markets and shooting up out in public, defalcating on the sidewalks, sleeping in the streets, creating hostile environments for businesses and normal citizens IS NOT NORMAL.

These lost souls inhabit these places because the local governments tolerate them. They are occupying armies that overrun the streets and parks, and make life miserable for folks who just want to live in peace.

Newsom be damned if he thinks that cleaning up a few square blocks will solve anything.