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Newell: San Francisco is hostage to their homeless; is New Orleans next?

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How would you like to walk out of your door to discarded syringes, human excrement, trash, and homeless people sleeping on your steps?San Francisco, one of America's wealthiest and most beautiful cities, is being held hostage by its homeless population. Social programs designed to help the homeless have actually hurt the very people it purports to help by making it easy for them to live on the street. Free syringes with instructions on how to properly use them are given out; in fact, 4.5 million syringes were given out last year. Drug and alcohol use coupled with mental health issues, and you have a recipe for disaster. Over $2 billion dollars was spent over ten years for 3000 to additional housing units that included drug counseling and social workers. They are spending an average of $47,500 a year per homeless person. Guess what? This is coming to a city near you. Large metropolises around the country are experiencing an influx of homelessness.To better understand this issue and set out ways to keep this nightmare scenario from coming to roost right here in New Orleans, Newell invited Carl Tannenbaum onto the program Wednesday morning. Carl is a retired Police Sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department.