San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> on Thursday that “hundreds and hundreds of citations that police give to aggressive panhandlers and those who drink and urinate on San Francisco streets” are either not prosecuted, dismissed by the courts, or simply ignored by the culprits. Reportedly, the police department, the mayor’s office, the district attorney’s office and the superior court are meeting to do something about making these “worst offenders accountable.”<\/p>\nPutting aside the legality and fairness of a sit\/lie law, the past failure to prosecute quality of life citations raises the question as to why we need Proposition L, now on the November ballot. If passed, who says those citations would be prosecuted any differently. Or put another way, if quality of life violations were prosecuted now, what is the rationale for a sit\/lie law?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Putting aside the legality and fairness of a sit\/lie law, the past failure to prosecute quality of life citations raises the question as to why we need Proposition L, now on the November ballot. If passed, who says those citations would be prosecuted any differently. Or put another way, if quality of life violations were prosecuted now, what is the rationale for a sit\/lie law? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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