UnHerd - The battle for San Francisco

UnHerd
Dec 10, 2023
The battle for San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OU5hrdACzQ
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San Francisco, for decades known around the world for its jazz, free love and beat poetry, has in recent years become notorious for a different reason. Tent encampments on its streets and open-air drug markets have become a reference point for the consequences of ultra-progressive policies.

Florence Read and Freddie Sayers took a film crew (and an armed security guard) into the Tenderloin district to find out the truth for themselves. This special report includes remarkable interviews with city supervisor Dean Preston and Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko, as well as drug users, locals and activists across the West.

Their report dives into the ideological and practical battles at the heart of the story, and asks whether San Francisco today could be a harbinger of things to come across the Western world.

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//TIMECODES//
00:00 - 2:20 Introduction
2:20 - 08:35 Freddie and Flo explore San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and visit a Harm Reduction clinic
08:35 - 10:39 Freddie goes to meet Dean Preston, progressive supervisor of the Tenderloin area