But there is a sense among many of those of us who live here as in, in the city and not in Palo Alto or Walnut Creek that it's really not bad at all unless you go downtown after dark, and when it comes to drug dealing and the mentally ill homeless, things in the Tenderloin and Sixth Street are pretty much as they've always been. It's like a legion of Americans who had never seen the Tenderloin or Mid-Market 10 or 20 years ago were suddenly shown videos on TikTok and Instagram this year, and they thought 'Wow! That's not the pretty San Francisco I've seen on movies and TV! It must be those damn liberals who fuck everything up who are to blame for this!'
Yes, further downtown and in the Financial District, things are quieter post-pandemic, and businesses are suffering because of it. But we managed to have a Dreamforce convention and the APEC summit without major incident.
ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz was dispatched to do an interview with Breed, either during or right after the APEC summit, which aired on Sunday's episode of 'This Week.' As she previously did in interviews with Jon Stewart and KTVU, Breed discussed the fact that San Francisco can be a magnet.
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