BLUE CITY BLUES: Mapping San Francisco’s Human Waste Challenge – 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008.
San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people. Affluent sections of the city have become dangerous with open-air drug use, tens of thousands of discarded needles, and, sadly, human feces.
Since 2011, there have been at least 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter on city streets.
New mayor, London Breed, won election by promising to clean things up. However, conditions are the same or worse. Last year, the number of reports spiked to an all-time high at 28,084. In first quarter 2019, the pace continued with 6,676 instances of human waste in the public way.
The last Republican mayor of San Francisco, George Christopher, left office in 1968.