California: San Francisco Diagnoses Its 'Perilous Trifecta,' Bungles the Cure

San Francisco's daunting challenge: 4,000 simultaneously homeless, psychotic, and addicted.

San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled acros…