Interesting how the article completely leaves out the Heroin/Fentanyl/Meth epidemic. SF is another example of what happens when public policy gets it wrong, our false compassion is killing people and city leaders are doing less than nothing about it.
Don't forget alcohol and other legal drugs.
SF always had a "skid row" area that was mostly alcoholics, but it was a fraction of the size it is now (it was basically a block or two). Now we have an entire neighborhood besieged with people openly using drugs, needles in their arms, smoking fentanyl with anything they can get their hands on.
"Ideally this would be coming from the legislature" You mean legally?
The US is a common law country: legal judgments are one of the three pillars of common law, along with legs®s and common practice (things that have always been that have been neither established nor prohibited by either of the other two pillars). IANAL. IANAA, but I have lived all my life in a common law country, FWIW.
The US was a common law country, then created the constitution based on that common law and now it is a constitutional republic. The constitution is the pillar now not "common law".
I'll never understand how the American system of government is meant to work. You've got a legislature that typically fails to legislate, an executive that sometimes does the legislature's job, and a judiciary that can randomly step in and write both laws and decrees as long as someone brings the case before them. I hasten to note that many of everyone's favorite decisions came out of this process, so it seems to wor…
The Federalist Papers give a really good overview. Note that they spent many years analyzing the failure modes of previous republics, and attempting to design a system resistant to those failure modes. I mean, we're still on our first republic (at least at the moment), while France is on its fifth, so obviously they did something right.
Second. Articles of Confederation were the first.
Third if you count the Civil War and Reconstruction.
What on earth? In SF homelessness is caused by the lack of housing. Mental illness is courtesy the Reagan era dismantling of mental health services in CA, and is over-represented for sure. However, the driving factor for homelessness in SF, is the fact that there is no where for people to live. Thats part of why eviction is so stupidly hard in SF. Once you become homeless it is functionally impossible to get out.
Its not caused by lack of housing, the people on the street are incapable of supporting themselves much less maintaining a dwelling - have you ever been here? Our homeless are mostly drug-seeking tourists who are from elsewhere. The Reagan canard is also just that; The Supreme court ruling sought by the ACLU during the Carter administration is why people are out on the street, the govt can't legally commit people lik…
It's seems that just about any system of government has issues with citizen/subject contentment or efficiency once becomes large and diverse. I agree that representation is lacking. I can't get an intelligent response from my reps, if I even get a response at all.
You may be interested to hear that those limits in the House of Representatives are actually entirely artificial because of a measure passed in 1929 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule ), and that there's an ongoing effort to increase the number so that each more closely reflects their constituents ( https://twitter.com/uncapthehouse ).
Yeah, I was aware of that. As the representation goes up (number of voting members) the efficiency/effectiveness tends to go down. Seems like a lose-lose scenario. I think a better scenario is to follow the original intent of the 10th ammendment and leave the states to provide most of the laws (smaller populations should result in better representation). Sadly it seems that just about anything can be shoehorned into the federal perview with the right judge. For example, growing your own wheat, on your own land, for you own consumption can be restricted by the federal government because the fact that you no longer have to buy your wheat impacts the interstate commerce of the wheat market.
Read through and it seems to be a crazy plan for me. The judge appears to be extremely ideology driven and a believer of the critical race theory to his core. It is also laughable to think a judge has a grand plan to solve a societal issue. So a judge appointed himself to be the supreme planner of the city? The idea that a judge thinks himself can solve the homeless problem with a big plan is by itself pathetic.
Are you claiming the government of Los Angeles has not discriminated on the basis of race?
Are you claiming all the racial disparities in outcomes are caused by the government discrimination?
The US is a common law country: legal judgments are one of the three pillars of common law, along with legs®s and common practice (things that have always been that have been neither established nor prohibited by either of the other two pillars). IANAL. IANAA, but I have lived all my life in a common law country, FWIW.
The US was a common law country, then created the constitution based on that common law and now it is a constitutional republic. The constitution is the pillar now not "common law".
I think he means they accept common law doctrines as part of the law. For example, malicious prosecution is not a statute (in some states) but can still be prosecuted (I forget if they handle it civilly or criminally) under common law doctrine.