One thing I’ve noticed in SF bay forums is there’s strong support for more enforcement and generally cleaning up the city. For comparison, Seattle forums are literally more split: Seattle’s subreddits are split to r/Seattle (leans left) and r/SeattleWA (leans right).

All this to say that based on my reads of online forums, I think SF is ahead of the curve of Seattle in terms of near universal frustration with homelessness/drugs/etc (even if it’s not confirmed whether they are related to this case), but somehow no progress or change in elected officials have been made.

I’m watching this to see if there’s hope for some of the problems in Seattle, since online forums here aren’t pissed off to the same degree yet.