Activists are hitting ‘far left’ as homeless drug addicts continue to wreak havoc in San Francisco
A Gen Z activist has criticized San Francisco’s awakened lawmakers for allowing the city to slide into a “Fourth World country.”
Soft-on-crime policies in the West Coast hub have allowed rampant lawlessness and open-air drug markets to take over the city, leading disgruntled resident Darren Mark Stallcup, 26, to admit he ‘can’t live like this’.
“We are witnessing the collapse of the Paris of the West and possibly the decline of Western civilization, with San Francisco as the first domino,” he told Fox News.
“I personally witness a fentanyl genocide. Every night I go to sleep to the sound of sirens and wake up to people screaming for their lives.”
His comments come after more than 70,000 San Francisco residents have fled since the start of the pandemic to escape the crumbling city’s drug and crime crisis.
San Francisco is overrun with rampant crime and open-air drug use
Stallcup, who recently launched a fundraiser to help him move from San Francisco after fentanyl rendered the city “uninhabitable,” regularly documents the ugly scenes on the streets to highlight the issues.
His videos often show tented streets, open-air drug use, and homeless addicts terrorizing people without consequence.
“When I go out every morning and count the bodies, when I document the fentanyl genocide in our community,” Stallcup said.
“My goal is to show the world what’s really happening on the streets of San Francisco.”
Darren Stallcup said he “goes to sleep to the sound of sirens every night” because of the city’s untamed crime wave
Earlier this year, embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to crack down on the subway’s untamed drug and crime wave.
But Stallcup said elected officials are responsible for the ongoing crisis, where lenient policies and underfunded police forces fail to revive the city.
“It seems like local leaders and local news are working together to just sweep this under the carpet and pretend everything is fine, when in reality thousands of people are dying from fentanyl,” says the 26-year-old Bay Area. native said
‘We have a beautiful city. Generations of people, good men and women, have built this city. Generations of blood, sweat and tears.
“And I hate to see it all crumble in a decade just because people can’t stop voting for this chaos.”
Stallcup said he regularly witnesses crime in the city, where the number of homeless people has skyrocketed
Addicts openly smoke drugs on the sidewalk of San Francisco’s Tenderloin area, where overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent months
A drug addict is pictured in downtown San Francisco in April
Stallcup has focused his activism on addressing the fallout from wakeful policymaking, which he says has made his hometown unrecognizable.
In July, he launched a campaign to lobby officials to declare a state of emergency in San Francisco, feeling the drug and crime epidemic had become a “humanitarian crisis.”
He said he regularly witnesses crime in the city, and claims to have even fought off robbers himself after falling victim to criminals three times in the past year.
“I want women and children to be safe again,” he continued.
“Kids have to walk to school and navigate the trenches of San Francisco, stumbling over bodies, feces, needles, burst pipes, you name it.
“These sidewalks are haunted by the ghosts of lost souls.”
Drug addicts and the homeless in the Tenderloin District, San Francisco
Drug addicts lie in a daze on the streets, while soft-on crime policies exacerbate the problem
The streets of San Francisco are awash with lawlessness and drugs
Since the start of the year, San Francisco has seen a disturbing crime spike that seems to continue all summer.
According to official police statistics, homicides are up 5 percent from last year, while robberies are up 16 percent.
Some indications show that rates for crimes such as rape and robbery have fallen. However, a former district attorney said last month that the city’s liberal district attorney’s decision not to prosecute many crimes may have skewed the numbers.
San Francisco’s drug deaths have also skyrocketed in the wake of the closure of a drug treatment center in the Tenderloin area.
In the California coastal hub, 200 people died from drug overdoses between January and March, compared to 142 deaths in 2022, according to recent data from the city’s medical examiner.
That equates to one overdose death every 10 hours in a city that has seen its reputation as a seaside gem destroyed by rising crime, drugs and homelessness.
San Francisco saw a staggering 41 percent increase in drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023
Despite fighting to quell the wave of crime plaguing the city, local leaders last month launched their most expensive campaign yet to try to lure people back to the city.
Dubbed “Always San Francisco,” the campaign cost a whopping $6 million and is run by the city’s tourism board.
Officials decided to focus the advertising campaign on the city’s quirkiness and diversity, but businesses have flocked away from the crime center.
In recent weeks, Nordstrom closed both stores in the crime-ridden subway, joining other brands, including Whole Foods, Anthropologie and Office Depot, as they moved out of the area.