Correct, nobody reports common theft any more, what’s the point? Unless your car gets stolen, then you report it for the insurance, but you’re not getting it back. 😢
In San Jose, I have observed multiple police actions involving closed streets & 100 police with machine guns. Not one word anywhere, including their own police blotter
Agree. I've listened to SF police and fire radio communications for decades...police no longer even get dispatched to the crimes unless it's major violence.
Just like Chicago. A waste of time to report a crime. Cops ordered to stand down. You can get away with murder there. No one is in custody in most cases.
My wife is really upset with you now Leo , I show her all your videos. Now, when I finish my beer I tell her “Gone Now” finish my lunch “gone now” finish my chips “gone now” my dinner “gone now”.
California born and raised. Lived in the Bay Area 67 years. Just moved out of state. When I crossed over Donner Pass, I stopped the car, got out, turned to face the setting sun and yelled, "GONE NOW!"
Priceless third generation Californian left in 2019 for beautiful Twin Falls Idaho reminds me of California back in the 60s people actually like each other
I know SF like the lines of my hand. I lived in SF from 1983 to 2000. I worked there from 1983 till I retired in 2022. Leo is spot on. He is honest and factual, unlike these propaganda bloggers who are starry eyed painting a rosy picture of the city that everything is turning around for the better.
Most likely they are being paid to say that. I recently read an article online that claimed SF was the happiest place on earth! The comments section went wild!
@@jeffk2512 I'm in San Jose and my city is dying also. We used to have a Walgreens and I used to call it "the jungle" and have that "welcome to the jungle" song in my head when I went there. That place was full of weirdos all the time. Ultimately some weirdo or another tried picking a fight with the (armed) guard, got shot and killed for his troubles, and the place closed. It's just another empty store front now.
@@carpelunam I'm thinking there are people who live somewhere nice in SF. The whole city isn't Market Street or the Embarcadero or the Tenderloin. That being said, what's happening in the city is criminal and I think Pamela Price is going to be voted out and our governor, Gavin Newsom, is trying to get us our state asylum system back so the more "gone" zombies can be put in there. Just south of my city, San Jose, there's a huge unfinished development that could be turned into a asylum for homeless people. It's hard to get people off the streets if you don't have someplace to put them into.
I just returned from a trip to Bangkok and Tokyo, and it was truly eye-opening, to say the least. The difference in how nice, lively, safe, modern, and wholesome it felt out there is incomparable.
That's because they are homogeneous areas. Multiculturalism is a wrecking ball. Every Multicultural society in history was destroyed by inner turmoil, racial strife, and an inability to come together on any and every issue. All races have their own agendas, that's why We all had our own Nation's. Globalism will utterly gut the west.
Don't go that far, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Guadalajara are really nice and alive. Even in the US cities like Vegas, Miami and San Antonio are thriving, even Detroit is doing better than California.
You are correct in your presentation of what's happening in San Francisco. My wife and I always shopped in and around downtown. We would park and go inside to all the stores. We could then just drive a few blocks and shop some more and have lunch or coffee. It was always a fun time. Then most of the parking meters got removed and bike lanes were added. We tried parking inside but it became worrisome with the bikes and scooters seemingly attacking from different directions. Then they took away lanes for driving. Clearly, people with cars were no longer welcome. No reason to come down here anymore. Got used to Amazon and driving to small towns for a few things. It's not uncommon to drive 20 to 25 miles to find a good grocery store where items are not behind glass under locks. The people keep voting the same people into city office expecting change. Time to fire them all.
I retired from SF-Gov at end of 2021 after 22 years. Root problem is that Mayor Breed’s City Hall refuses to be transparent. Example, the Equity Program began secretly working on “Defund Police Project” in October 2018. It was hidden from employees/public until June 2020. Mega-censorship is another problem. Even if you have expertise and/or evidence that an Equity Project would cause serious harm, it is strictly forbidden to speak or communicate any disagreement with the Equity Program.
I think that's called suicide, or is it democide? Death by government. You ever get the conviction that our government has changed its "mission statement? I mean the people now ruling over us? Whatever it used to be, it is now full-blown population culling. The scent of death by government is heavy in California
I worked in San Francisco for over 30 years and it was always a little bit off but it was still a beautiful city with a lot of things to do, but once Gavin Newsom became the mayor things went downhill quick. The saddest part of all this is that the citizens of CA will keep voting for very people who destroyed San Francisco and the rest of California.
Well if you get all the people from large population centers that vote like that, genius economists that protest for higher pay when all the businesses around you are closing for example, and make the place unlivable, they'll go move to other places and vote like that.
No they wont as much. I'm seeing red signs all over liberal cali. if it;s legally counted, no way. Everyone knows it's shit except boomers that don't leave their houses and genz who are doped out of their brains.
I stopped by the Apple store on Union Square on Thursday 10/3 to purchase a new keyboard. On my way down 4th street to visit Cole Hardware I was stunned to see a man down on the sidewalk next to Trader Joe's. He was dead from an overdose. No signs of life and his face was a pale, light grey color. Meanwhile it was 4 pm and crowds of people just kept walking right past, ignoring his corpse. I had to hail a beat cop and report this sad issue. San Francisco is in its death throws and nobody seems to care. Worse than a third world country, human life appears to be worth nothing in California these days.
There are spots like this for which you’re definitely right… but from watching Leo’s videos you’d think all of San Francisco is like this. That’s not the reality at all. The majority of neighborhoods feel pretty similar to pre-pandemic.
You should have gone in that Democrat Campaign Headquarters and asked them what Kamala is going to do to reverse the destruction of Califonia - and watch them tell you everything is fine.
Kamala Harris is, after all, the primary one responsible for shoving both Prop 47 & 57 down our throats when she was attorney general, resulting in this current mess. But OTOH, even if she were elected President, she couldn't fix anything. The city's problems are local jurisdiction, not Federal, so blame the mayor & city-council & demand they fix it.
So glad you brought up Kamala and her San Francisco heritage. Imagine running for national office, knowing you left your home state and your San Francisco base TRASHED! The message is clear. Vote for Kamala and you can expect the same throughout the USA.
In the 80s and the 90s I lived in a lovely apartment right in the heart of Union Square, three blocks from Saks. Union Square was heavenly back then with well dressed men and women working and shopping for beautiful things. I left California in the early 2000s and am thankful I now live thousands of miles away. But it still breaks my heart to see the devestation, squalor and danger in Leo's vitally informative videos.
San Francisco was glorious back in the 80s. I lived in a rent control apartment ($400 per month) overlooking the city and worked only 4 days a week. I was single, free with money to spend. Those days are "gone now"!
That storefront with the green awnings that you walked by at 9:12 was once Lefty O'Doul's, a San Francisco landmark that opened in 1958. Irish bar with pub/hof brau type hearty food and tons of fascinating local and baseball memorabilia. I have been there a few times in my life, but it's been at least ten years, probably longer--it closed in 2017, due to the owner's entanglement with SF City Hall corruption--no big surprise, corruption in SF city government! An early casualty of our ongoing decline. I can't believe I recognized it after all these years. I'm so sad.
They blocked-off streets, narrowed the others, imposed ridiculously slow speed-limits, and otherwise made it nearly impossible to drive Downtown. At the same time, they allowed public transit to become too dirty and too dangerous. WHAT WERE THEY EXPECTING?
@@daffodil9075 No one really parked on Market, unless it was to make a quick pick-up or delivery. There were plenty of lots and parking garages. People could afford stuff, back then. Market was mostly used to get to and from Downtown. It was pretty-much the only direct route. Of course, back in the day, most folks used the trains or streetcars to get Downtown. They were quick, safe, relatively clean, and the fares were reasonable. Now, the fares are outrageous, the stations are dirty and dangerous, and the homeless have been using the train cars as bathrooms and "shooting-galleries".
Just finished a gig at 1 Jones at at the Hibernia Bank. Started Sunday, it was clean when I left at 6pm. Got off BART at Powell Monday morning and walking down Market there were so many fresh poops it was insane. Drug dealers, drug consumers everywhere. A chiropractors dream with all the fentanyl abusers walking around hunched over.
That part of Market has been bad for a very long time. I remember once in the eighties I got off what I think was a Golden Transit and literally had to run to avoid throwing up.
At 9:10 “This must’ve been a bar” - That was the mighty and awesome ”Lefty” O’Doul’s man what a place that was. There since 1958! Named after the founder and opener Lefty O’Doul, one of the founders of the Pacific Baseball League and general manager of the San Francisco Seals (the precursor to the Giants). A great place for a full hoffbrau style meal and they offered a volunteer-run Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people each year for many years. I volunteered as a food preparer there a few years. So sad to see it just boarded up like all the other places. This city is absolutely DONE.
Yet millionaires continue to live there, Tourism continues to be strong. The demise of SF is highly exaggerated. These issues have always been present in the city.
David..... Are you being paid to write this BLATANT tripe all over, are are you just in denial???? I am a 5/6 gen local, my baby bro was BORN in SF even, and the City has gone from regular holiday ballet and shopping visits and go to the Zoo and GGP and bring visitors all over to thinking carefully about routes and time of day to traverse across it in a car for speed and safety and dreading any must go trips into. Anywhere. Because while some small pockets are safe they are also tucked away residential with zero reason to drive to them and not like just anyone could park on most blocks regardless, most of the neighborhood restaurants or shops still operating have little parking and it is clear the basic maintenance of the outlying areas are collapsing along with the spreading blight of iron gates and shut down storefronts, and outing type sights are just sad or unsafe far too often. This is FACTS. Stop lying.
From Steve McQueen's 'Bullitt' to 'Dirty Harry' filming locations, SF was a picturesque decent city; I was a resident during the 80's. Democrats had control then, but now...what is their final vision, complete annihilation of a city ? Then what. Where does the money come from.
Born and raised in Oakland. San Francisco was where we went in our best clothes. However, that was in the 1950s. Then for a long time we had good fun in North Beach, and I was happy studying at the San Francisco Art Institute. I was there in 2018 for a couple of hours and it was sad what I saw, but nothing compared to what you are revealing here. Never wish to go back, and that includes the East Bay. Not even to fly out from SFO, which I used to love doing.
Multiple protests, almost inescapable when there's five of them in the same day for two months and you have to drive around town for work, all banging, shouting and even loud sirens and bullhorns made me quit my job in 2018. That and a hundred other reasons... thank you for the video! I was able to laugh a little about it and be more at peace with my decision to quit.
I was literally born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up there in the 1960's and '70's. It was considered the safest big city in the country. I used to take public busses to my PAL judo class at the age of 6 all by myself (different times). After getting married, I raised a family in Santa Clara County. We used to go up to The City at least once every other month. We did that through around 2015 or so. Back then, all the stores in Union Square used to be out of our price range. The only place we could afford was Borders Bookstore. But we used to go there to experience the high-end stores and the people impeccably dressed in Gucci, etc. IT WAS UPSCALE. No more. THIS IS THE LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT/COMMIE AGENDA IN ACTION.
DYK SF mayor London Breed is married to an asian man who manages the Hampton hotel chain? What most don't understand is his father is one of the wealthiest billionaires in Hong Kong. When he dies she and her husband will be rich beyond their dreams. Hmmm...
Parallel tragedies are affecting lives. Tangible things have price tags, friendships and relationships are priceless. Desolation (as in ancient past) could last well over a generation. Right now, elsewhere, there is famine, war, and natural disasters. Neighbors, friends, relatives, and family members have become estranged for a variety of reasons.
You're wrong, this is happening all over America. Have you been to Ohio, Texas or Florida. You will see the same thing happening there. USA is now a third world country. I have been voting Republican my whole life and things have gotten only worse because ALL politicians are self centered and stupid. We the people need to start taking ownership rather than rely on idiot politicians. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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@@MonsterPig007 Wrong! The dems were the ones who made crime legal
On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon had "bus pants" to wear over his regular pants when riding the dirty bus. In SF, you need something similar to protect your shoes when walking around. Maybe galoshes will make a comeback!
It's actually a pretty clever strategy: Allow crime to get so bad that it drives out natives with any memory of affordable, decent living, then replace them with compliant immigrants who have essentially zero expectations. Within a generation we'll have a return to the neo-feudal situation that existed 120 years ago in the original ghetto slums, where landlords made tons of money cramming people into squalid tenements. Ultimately, it's pure form raw USA capitalism. Cities were only "nice" post WW2 when salaries and wages were the highest in history. The elite though to themselves, who are these entitled ingrates? We'll fix their wagon; the result we see today is testament to their sucess.
Some of my family members would cross the bridge a couple times a month to shop there. There was a concentration of nice department stores within a few blocks. During Christmas, there was such a good vibe in that area. It has been over 2 years now since they've gone back.
@@christianque4933 Been telling people in my home town of Saint Paul, MN that the USA would be akin to a third world country in less than 30 years ... that was in the 1990s- early 2000s. Scary to think it's going down that way.
Used to take my kids to SF for Christmas. Stayed at a hotel on Union Square. Last time was in the mid 90s when a homeless guy took a shit in the doorway of our hotel in front of my kids.
The Union Square area was one of my favorite parts of the city when I lived there in the late 1980s. I'm still using the cookware I bought at Macy's, and I'm so sorry to hear it's finally closing. I had a friend whose mom worked at Macy's. I also liked the lunch counter at Neiman Marcus, although I didn't shop there unless they were having a really good sale. Tom Sweeney, one of the doormen at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, was also a San Francisco icon. Now the hotel has a different name, and the beefeater doormen are no longer there. However, Union Square itself was a little sketchy, even back then. Tried walking through one time. After that I made a point of only walking on the sidewalks across the street from the square, but during day there were plenty of people around, so it was generally safe to be in that part of town.
Leo, As I watch your videos , the people in the background appear to be like NPC’s in a video game. Very surreal! Nothing seems to be lifelike in the city, that was once one of the most beautiful cities in the country, if not the world. Thanks for sharing your perspective on the truth behind terrible leadership in San Francisco and Democrat policies in America. Blessings from Oklahoma
It’s so sad. Unbelievable. This must be destruction by design. Otherwise why would you let the Golden Goose be destroyed??? Makes no sense so what are they planning???
@@ShovelMonkey Joseph Stalin was a criminal and a mass murderer. Trump tried to overthrow the last presidential election with this Stalinistic approach. It's CRIMINAL. Voters in the United States do indeed decide and make a difference and we will continue to decide and make a difference despite criminal attempts to affect the elections.
I used to go to SF for vacations when it was safer and cleaner. I recently was in CA but deliberately skipped SF. Not interested in my car windows getting smashed and my stuff stolen. Also, I when I travel I don't care to be around homeless camps and drug using zombies.
When will people realize it’s the voters fault. Voting in the same kind of people over and over again and expecting a change. Thank you for your reporting
ha. voters? do we really have that breed? as potato head would say , "ah, com' on now".... put your x next to my name, I'm good for ya. hurry before bad orange man gets in the way.
Leo.. I don't see a recovery in the city in the near future or in my lifetime. It's a crying shame what happened to the city where I'm from. Thanks Leo for the video.
It's telling that a big business left, and it's now used as a local hq for cackle's campaign..look how clean it is...and EMPTY! 😂 Keep making these videos Leo, you're doing a terrific job and your fame spreads; watched a video from a place in Europe that looks as bad as SF and a person commented with "BOARDS, BOARDS BOARDS, GONE NOW! we love Metal Leo!" 😁
Those rodents are not in San Francisco, they are in the delta...Sacramento River area far from developed areas. Writers often associate anything anywhere near the Bay Area as "in San Francisco"...it's nonsense.
got into this very argument not a week ago with a buddy of mine who still LIVES in SF. i tell him SF at one time was one of the most BEAUTIFUL cities on the PLANET, its now a trash can/toilet bowl. he tells me 'stop watching FOX NEWS' lmao firstly i dont, and secondly ive seen SF the last 20 years. its not the same.
It frightens me how aggressively hostile actual residents are to the blatant reality of deliberate dystopian hellhole many of our SFBA cities have become. I am a multi gen Californian and local, never lived outside the greater Metro area, and old enough to have a comprehensive memory of the stages of thriving to collapse. It is so painfully bad and ugly and dangerous across HUGE swathes of our region, spiralling since about 2012 in the bigger city cores, spreading and accelerating rapidly since 2018. I cannot understand HOW they can refuse to see the truth surrounding them. 😶
Didn't the Hilton stop paying its mortgage in 2023? Ironically, none of those picket line walkers actually live in SF. And I would venture to say that many of them don't even work at the property. UNITE HERE is a garbage union who gives workers false hope. If they are in default with their property payments, how TF are they going to give these increasingly idle workers a raise?
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tax payer spend so much money protecting non citizens and other countries their borders than our own cities and territory
My office was on Townsend, I used to live in Tiburon in the 70’s, SF was my stomping grounds for over 30 years. I swore to never return seeing what Newsom had done to the city, my last visit in 2007. And I thought it was bad at Union Square then. It used to be one of SF’s jewels, absolutely heartbreaking what they’ve done. But the residents must like it, because they keep voting for it.
@@Peter-zv6yywhat is that even supposed to mean? Are you talking about the dems killing areas to then buy prime real estate for Pennie’s on the dollar? Like in central CA with congressional caused dustbowl? Are you aware of the legislation taking place in the state? Do you know about London Breed or Matt Weiner or prop 47? Always follow the money, but here it’s entirely about politics and power, which always lines pockets.
Breed, Board of Supervisors, Police Chief Scott, liberal judges, Bonta, Newsom, and Biden. Take your pick, but they all contributed to this mess. FYI...most voters will still vote Blue.
4:42 "On paper, it may seem like crime is down, but in reality, REPORTING CRIME is down." You nailed it, Leo.
Brings a whole new meaning to statistically
Correct, nobody reports common theft any more, what’s the point? Unless your car gets stolen, then you report it for the insurance, but you’re not getting it back. 😢
In San Jose, I have observed multiple police actions involving closed streets & 100 police with machine guns.
Not one word anywhere, including their own police blotter
Agree. I've listened to SF police and fire radio communications for decades...police no longer even get dispatched to the crimes unless it's major violence.
Just like Chicago. A waste of time to report a crime. Cops ordered to stand down. You can get away with murder there. No one is in custody in most cases.
Crime is also down because there's nothing left to steal.
🤣🤣🤣 Nice
If crime is down, it's because the po-po have been told to no longer record it.
That is so true lol lol
Looks good on the greedy ones
no stores to ROB...ha ha.
Most accurate statement.
My wife is really upset with you now Leo , I show her all your videos. Now, when I finish my beer I tell her “Gone Now” finish my lunch “gone now” finish my chips “gone now” my dinner “gone now”.
😁GONE NOW😁
My wife and I do the same thing with celebrity deaths. Richard Simons.. Gone Now.
same 😂😂😂 and "Boards Boards Boards!" always in Leo's voice lol.
lmao 🤣 😂😅
Nice a personalized “Gone Now”🎉
California born and raised. Lived in the Bay Area 67 years. Just moved out of state. When I crossed over Donner Pass, I stopped the car, got out, turned to face the setting sun and yelled, "GONE NOW!"
Priceless third generation Californian left in 2019 for beautiful Twin Falls Idaho reminds me of California back in the 60s people actually like each other
@@optitom9033Nice that You escaped the insanity in Cali, just stop trying to californicate my home state of Idaho!!
@zzzzzz20243 something I'd never do this is the safest place I've ever lived
Just don’t bring liberal votes with you…
@@MrSwedjen 🤣Just stay away from Portland and Seattle.
Metal Leo once again doing the work our local state run news refuses to do, report the truth! Thank you Leo.
And the news has enough nerve to say that businesses is coming back to San Francisco what a joke thanks for the video stay safe out there man
I know SF like the lines of my hand. I lived in SF from 1983 to 2000. I worked there from 1983 till I retired in 2022. Leo is spot on. He is honest and factual, unlike these propaganda bloggers who are starry eyed painting a rosy picture of the city that everything is turning around for the better.
Most likely they are being paid to say that. I recently read an article online that claimed SF was the happiest place on earth! The comments section went wild!
You're telling me the posts on Reddit that talk about San Francisco being a beautiful city are propaganda? 😮 haha (sarcasm)
"It's a jungle!"
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@@jeffk2512 I'm in San Jose and my city is dying also. We used to have a Walgreens and I used to call it "the jungle" and have that "welcome to the jungle" song in my head when I went there. That place was full of weirdos all the time. Ultimately some weirdo or another tried picking a fight with the (armed) guard, got shot and killed for his troubles, and the place closed. It's just another empty store front now.
@@carpelunam I'm thinking there are people who live somewhere nice in SF. The whole city isn't Market Street or the Embarcadero or the Tenderloin. That being said, what's happening in the city is criminal and I think Pamela Price is going to be voted out and our governor, Gavin Newsom, is trying to get us our state asylum system back so the more "gone" zombies can be put in there. Just south of my city, San Jose, there's a huge unfinished development that could be turned into a asylum for homeless people. It's hard to get people off the streets if you don't have someplace to put them into.
"Because of their wealth and institutional control, liberal elites are not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology." Victor Davis Hanson
oof damn straight
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The former Marshall's in the vid is now a temp office for the Harris/Walz campaign. How fitting & appropriate.
True. This pretty much includes the well off voting public that have been washed into thinking that "progressivism is the way to go."
VDH is awesome!👏
I just returned from a trip to Bangkok and Tokyo, and it was truly eye-opening, to say the least. The difference in how nice, lively, safe, modern, and wholesome it felt out there is incomparable.
That's because they are homogeneous areas. Multiculturalism is a wrecking ball. Every Multicultural society in history was destroyed by inner turmoil, racial strife, and an inability to come together on any and every issue. All races have their own agendas, that's why We all had our own Nation's. Globalism will utterly gut the west.
I don't agree with you on Bangkok but very true about Tokyo.
Don't go that far, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Guadalajara are really nice and alive.
Even in the US cities like Vegas, Miami and San Antonio are thriving, even Detroit is doing better than California.
You are correct in your presentation of what's happening in San Francisco. My wife and I always shopped in and around downtown. We would park and go inside to all the stores. We could then just drive a few blocks and shop some more and have lunch or coffee. It was always a fun time. Then most of the parking meters got removed and bike lanes were added. We tried parking inside but it became worrisome with the bikes and scooters seemingly attacking from different directions. Then they took away lanes for driving. Clearly, people with cars were no longer welcome. No reason to come down here anymore. Got used to Amazon and driving to small towns for a few things. It's not uncommon to drive 20 to 25 miles to find a good grocery store where items are not behind glass under locks. The people keep voting the same people into city office expecting change. Time to fire them all.
Es ist nicht nur der Stadtrat. Es ist eine globale Agenda. Bei uns ist es ähnlich (Deutschland).
I retired from SF-Gov at end of 2021 after 22 years. Root problem is that Mayor Breed’s City Hall refuses to be transparent. Example, the Equity Program began secretly working on “Defund Police Project” in October 2018. It was hidden from employees/public until June 2020. Mega-censorship is another problem. Even if you have expertise and/or evidence that an Equity Project would cause serious harm, it is strictly forbidden to speak or communicate any disagreement with the Equity Program.
Destructive Eviscerating Ideology
Sounds like a mini Britain.
I think that's called suicide, or is it democide? Death by government. You ever get the conviction that our government has changed its "mission statement? I mean the people now ruling over us?
Whatever it used to be, it is now full-blown population culling. The scent of death by government is heavy in California
Equity...Breed giving her race jobs before any other race?
Cui bono?
I worked in San Francisco for over 30 years and it was always a little bit off but it was still a beautiful city with a lot of things to do, but once Gavin Newsom became the mayor things went downhill quick.
The saddest part of all this is that the citizens of CA will keep voting for very people who destroyed San Francisco and the rest of California.
Well if you get all the people from large population centers that vote like that, genius economists that protest for higher pay when all the businesses around you are closing for example, and make the place unlivable, they'll go move to other places and vote like that.
No they wont as much. I'm seeing red signs all over liberal cali. if it;s legally counted, no way. Everyone knows it's shit except boomers that don't leave their houses and genz who are doped out of their brains.
It was literally Newsom, Kamala, and Pelosi.... meanwhile they all blame Trump.
S0d omee is the most important thing to them.
Hello Leo. We need a lot more people like you calling it like it is. Thanks again.
I try
there could be 10,000, everyone is watching a ballgame and flag worshipping.
This city voted for America last policies, its pretty obvious
I live in Oregon . Closed businesses should say Oregone now! LOL
@@JeffJ1974 Good!
ORE-GONNNNNNE 😂😂😂
Talmuddies plunder.
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"...law enforcement doesn't arrest, and city hall doesn't prosecute." That sign in the market says it all.
If u think that's the root of the problem the u should consider a library card.
All San Francisco officials are following Kamala's sickening lead.
We're going to legalize all forms of crime. No jails no prisons.
Democrat policies are the root problem.
Crime goes down when business leaves & there no place to shoplift or rob.
Union Square use to be one of the nicest areas of San Francisco. Now it looks like the Tenderloin.
I stopped by the Apple store on Union Square on Thursday 10/3 to purchase a new keyboard. On my way down 4th street to visit Cole Hardware I was stunned to see a man down on the sidewalk next to Trader Joe's. He was dead from an overdose. No signs of life and his face was a pale, light grey color. Meanwhile it was 4 pm and crowds of people just kept walking right past, ignoring his corpse. I had to hail a beat cop and report this sad issue. San Francisco is in its death throws and nobody seems to care. Worse than a third world country, human life appears to be worth nothing in California these days.
Plot twist. You live in a 3rd world country to begin with 😂👌🏽
There are spots like this for which you’re definitely right… but from watching Leo’s videos you’d think all of San Francisco is like this. That’s not the reality at all. The majority of neighborhoods feel pretty similar to pre-pandemic.
That was London, England and Paris, France circa 1600. Human societies go through cycles like everything else.
In a year we've transitioned from "for lease" to "gone now". Thanks for providing first hand view for us.
SF needs Dirty Harry to come out of retirement!
Make vigilantes great again
Paul where you at ?😎
@@abae693 the Rooftop Koreans saga is about to return, no joke
@@GTIFabric rooftop koreans returning in 3....2....1...
or Charles Bronson
You should have gone in that Democrat Campaign Headquarters and asked them what Kamala is going to do to reverse the destruction of Califonia - and watch them tell you everything is fine.
They would probably start gunning for his channel
Or go in just to show how empty it was in there.
denial the way of the democrats
Kamala Harris is, after all, the primary one responsible for shoving both Prop 47 & 57 down our throats when she was attorney general, resulting in this current mess. But OTOH, even if she were elected President, she couldn't fix anything. The city's problems are local jurisdiction, not Federal, so blame the mayor & city-council & demand they fix it.
So glad you brought up Kamala and her San Francisco heritage. Imagine running for national office, knowing you left your home state and your San Francisco base TRASHED! The message is clear. Vote for Kamala and you can expect the same throughout the USA.
In the 80s and the 90s I lived in a lovely apartment right in the heart of Union Square, three blocks from Saks. Union Square was heavenly back then with well dressed men and women working and shopping for beautiful things. I left California in the early 2000s and am thankful I now live thousands of miles away. But it still breaks my heart to see the devestation, squalor and danger in Leo's vitally informative videos.
Je me souviens! MARINA 1990-2023. gone now!
San Francisco was glorious back in the 80s. I lived in a rent control apartment ($400 per month) overlooking the city and worked only 4 days a week. I was single, free with money to spend. Those days are "gone now"!
That storefront with the green awnings that you walked by at 9:12 was once Lefty O'Doul's, a San Francisco landmark that opened in 1958. Irish bar with pub/hof brau type hearty food and tons of fascinating local and baseball memorabilia. I have been there a few times in my life, but it's been at least ten years, probably longer--it closed in 2017, due to the owner's entanglement with SF City Hall corruption--no big surprise, corruption in SF city government! An early casualty of our ongoing decline. I can't believe I recognized it after all these years. I'm so sad.
I went there(i.e. Lefty O'Doul's) on St. Patrick's day many years ago(15 years?).
@@denverdubois5835 Me too! 😢 Worked just a half block away in the 80's.
That was also Herb Caen's hangout. He was the brilliant writer for the SF Examiner!!!!! 👍🌉
I used to live in San Francisco but the crime and filth is so bad, I Am Gone Now...moved to AZ
They blocked-off streets, narrowed the others, imposed ridiculously slow speed-limits, and otherwise made it nearly impossible to drive Downtown. At the same time, they allowed public transit to become too dirty and too dangerous. WHAT WERE THEY EXPECTING?
I just wanna know, in former times, how many people parked on Market Street anyway, and how long did it take them to find a parking spot.
@@daffodil9075 No one really parked on Market, unless it was to make a quick pick-up or delivery. There were plenty of lots and parking garages. People could afford stuff, back then. Market was mostly used to get to and from Downtown. It was pretty-much the only direct route.
Of course, back in the day, most folks used the trains or streetcars to get Downtown. They were quick, safe, relatively clean, and the fares were reasonable. Now, the fares are outrageous, the stations are dirty and dangerous, and the homeless have been using the train cars as bathrooms and "shooting-galleries".
Do you honestly believe that was an accident?
Cui bono?
they want this
Hard enough to find parking on California street and at 4pm forget it, but that was the 90's when SF was booming.
Absolutely disgusting.Lived there 68 to 2000.Thankyou Metal Leo for showing facts,the truth.
Born and raised in Cali. I'm 46 now. At the age of 18, I was Gone Now....
Smartest move you ever made. Did you assimilate to wherever you moved to?
Praise be to God, He relocated me while I was 16; family came from Tennessee to take me outta there; that was 55 years ago.
@@sasharajgreat I’m headed to Franklin this year!
Thanks for your videos. Since leaving the area 10 years ago many don't get information from the media. Your work is much appreciated my friend.
Just finished a gig at 1 Jones at at the Hibernia Bank. Started Sunday, it was clean when I left at 6pm. Got off BART at Powell Monday morning and walking down Market there were so many fresh poops it was insane. Drug dealers, drug consumers everywhere. A chiropractors dream with all the fentanyl abusers walking around hunched over.
That part of Market has been bad for a very long time. I remember once in the eighties I got off what I think was a Golden Transit and literally had to run to avoid throwing up.
I need directions 😅😅
@@111CREWGO69Zto where hell?
Gone nowwww! Boards, boards, boards.
Once the macys close, that’s the end of the downtown
I worked in downtown San Francisco from 86 until 2005, and this really breaks my heart.
My local cvs almost every shelf is locked up products.
Doing the job the MSM refuse to do. Great job Metal Leo!
At 9:10 “This must’ve been a bar” - That was the mighty and awesome ”Lefty” O’Doul’s man what a place that was. There since 1958! Named after the founder and opener Lefty O’Doul, one of the founders of the Pacific Baseball League and general manager of the San Francisco Seals (the precursor to the Giants). A great place for a full hoffbrau style meal and they offered a volunteer-run Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people each year for many years. I volunteered as a food preparer there a few years. So sad to see it just boarded up like all the other places. This city is absolutely DONE.
Been there many times sorry to see what these worthless progressive liberals that hijacked our Democrat party done to the city by the bay
Yet millionaires continue to live there, Tourism continues to be strong. The demise of SF is highly exaggerated. These issues have always been present in the city.
David..... Are you being paid to write this BLATANT tripe all over, are are you just in denial????
I am a 5/6 gen local, my baby bro was BORN in SF even, and the City has gone from regular holiday ballet and shopping visits and go to the Zoo and GGP and bring visitors all over to thinking carefully about routes and time of day to traverse across it in a car for speed and safety and dreading any must go trips into. Anywhere.
Because while some small pockets are safe they are also tucked away residential with zero reason to drive to them and not like just anyone could park on most blocks regardless, most of the neighborhood restaurants or shops still operating have little parking and it is clear the basic maintenance of the outlying areas are collapsing along with the spreading blight of iron gates and shut down storefronts, and outing type sights are just sad or unsafe far too often.
This is FACTS. Stop lying.
From Steve McQueen's 'Bullitt' to 'Dirty Harry' filming locations, SF was a picturesque decent city; I was a resident during the 80's. Democrats had control then, but now...what is their final vision, complete annihilation of a city ? Then what. Where does the money come from.
Leo you have the Best ever San Francisco Bay Area streets reporting! I’m GONE NOW!
50+ year bay area native. It is such a shame what has happened to SF (and society) over just a few decades.
Born and raised in Oakland. San Francisco was where we went in our best clothes. However, that was in the 1950s. Then for a long time we had good fun in North Beach, and I was happy studying at the San Francisco Art Institute. I was there in 2018 for a couple of hours and it was sad what I saw, but nothing compared to what you are revealing here. Never wish to go back, and that includes the East Bay. Not even to fly out from SFO, which I used to love doing.
Multiple protests, almost inescapable when there's five of them in the same day for two months and you have to drive around town for work, all banging, shouting and even loud sirens and bullhorns made me quit my job in 2018. That and a hundred other reasons... thank you for the video! I was able to laugh a little about it and be more at peace with my decision to quit.
I heard that too. I hate the bullhorns.
I was literally born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up there in the 1960's and '70's. It was considered the safest big city in the country. I used to take public busses to my PAL judo class at the age of 6 all by myself (different times). After getting married, I raised a family in Santa Clara County. We used to go up to The City at least once every other month. We did that through around 2015 or so. Back then, all the stores in Union Square used to be out of our price range. The only place we could afford was Borders Bookstore. But we used to go there to experience the high-end stores and the people impeccably dressed in Gucci, etc. IT WAS UPSCALE. No more. THIS IS THE LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT/COMMIE AGENDA IN ACTION.
GONE!
No, it was big Tech. It's always the Money
@@Peter-zv6yy one and the same sweetie
The part that I can't stand is when the SF mayor constantly gaslights the public and goes on about how it's never been better in SF.
DYK SF mayor London Breed is married to an asian man who manages the Hampton hotel chain? What most don't understand is his father is one of the wealthiest billionaires in Hong Kong. When he dies she and her husband will be rich beyond their dreams. Hmmm...
Parallel tragedies are affecting lives. Tangible things have price tags, friendships and relationships are priceless. Desolation (as in ancient past) could last well over a generation. Right now, elsewhere, there is famine, war, and natural disasters. Neighbors, friends, relatives, and family members have become estranged for a variety of reasons.
SF Dems! LOL They did this! Horrible
All the Democratic voters did this.
You're wrong, this is happening all over America. Have you been to Ohio, Texas or Florida. You will see the same thing happening there. USA is now a third world country. I have been voting Republican my whole life and things have gotten only worse because ALL politicians are self centered and stupid. We the people need to start taking ownership rather than rely on idiot politicians. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
@@MonsterPig007 Wrong! The dems were the ones who made crime legal
Good thing we left SF n California 7 years ago cause you know only going to keep getting worse .. Happy in NC 🙂
Beautiful state. A lot of people are moving there, that I know.
Raleigh/Durham is the new silicon valley. Good Indian food there.
Left Prince George's county MD for the same reason Happy in Enola Pennsylvania
We left in 2019 and moved to NC,too.
Were you affected by the hurricane?
This is horrendous 😭😭😭💀💀💀.
Dirty Harry would have a field day!
Modern Dirty Harry would be a woke, drag queen, atheist, kid diddler, fighting for the democrats.
I tried reporting a crime in SF, but the officers said it wasn’t a crime because they didn’t know the applicable laws involved, so no crime!
When Salesforce had their convention in San Francisco a few weeks ago the area was all cleaned up. Now that it's finished things went back to crap.
On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon had "bus pants" to wear over his regular pants when riding the dirty bus. In SF, you need something similar to protect your shoes when walking around. Maybe galoshes will make a comeback!
I wear rubber boots myself they’re easier to wash with a garden hose
I wonder who will be buying up these properties once the value bottoms out? This isn't an accident.
Black rock
It's actually a pretty clever strategy: Allow crime to get so bad that it drives out natives with any memory of affordable, decent living, then replace them with compliant immigrants who have essentially zero expectations.
Within a generation we'll have a return to the neo-feudal situation that existed 120 years ago in the original ghetto slums, where landlords made tons of money cramming people into squalid tenements.
Ultimately, it's pure form raw USA capitalism. Cities were only "nice" post WW2 when salaries and wages were the highest in history.
The elite though to themselves, who are these entitled ingrates? We'll fix their wagon; the result we see today is testament to their sucess.
Blackrock
It was totally planned by all those with their great big smiles and their bright white shiny teeth.
Blackcock
this is a great resource for seeing what's really going on. this trend should have regular updates from our news business. and we get nothing.
Some of my family members would cross the bridge a couple times a month to shop there. There was a concentration of nice department stores within a few blocks. During Christmas, there was such a good vibe in that area. It has been over 2 years now since they've gone back.
Qué pesadilla distopica. San Francisco está oficialmente jodida. Gracias Leo por otro video fantástico. Suerte!
Si el Salvador major now to live gracias Leo 😊E.S best now .
It looks like a city in a so called third world country
the US is technically a banana republic with nukes.. thats how the rest of the rising world see's the US.. I wish American know this..
And we have a fourth world country soon
@@christianque4933 Been telling people in my home town of Saint Paul, MN that the USA would be akin to a third world country in less than 30 years ... that was in the 1990s- early 2000s. Scary to think it's going down that way.
By now, that is an insult to most third world countries. I've been in small towns overseas that is cleaner, and has a vibrant street life.
@@katsiduzynski488Or in other words, the USA without Chinese imports
Used to take my kids to SF for Christmas. Stayed at a hotel on Union Square. Last time was in the mid 90s when a homeless guy took a shit in the doorway of our hotel in front of my kids.
The Union Square area was one of my favorite parts of the city when I lived there in the late 1980s. I'm still using the cookware I bought at Macy's, and I'm so sorry to hear it's finally closing. I had a friend whose mom worked at Macy's. I also liked the lunch counter at Neiman Marcus, although I didn't shop there unless they were having a really good sale. Tom Sweeney, one of the doormen at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, was also a San Francisco icon. Now the hotel has a different name, and the beefeater doormen are no longer there. However, Union Square itself was a little sketchy, even back then. Tried walking through one time. After that I made a point of only walking on the sidewalks across the street from the square, but during day there were plenty of people around, so it was generally safe to be in that part of town.
Leo,
As I watch your videos , the people in the background appear to be like NPC’s in a video game.
Very surreal!
Nothing seems to be lifelike in the city, that was once one of the most beautiful cities in the country, if not the world.
Thanks for sharing your perspective on the truth behind terrible leadership in San Francisco and Democrat policies in America.
Blessings from Oklahoma
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It’s so sad. Unbelievable. This must be destruction by design. Otherwise why would you let the Golden Goose be destroyed??? Makes no sense so what are they planning???
Leo comes thru again with first-hand, on the ground reporting almost as dangerous as on the War Front !
In any sober city, you would expect the voters to change the ruling party. But no. Well...
I hate to see San Francisco (once my favorite city in the USA to vacation in) looking like this. Metal Leo #1!
Nice to hear from you again.. greetings from Germany
Sehr Gut
Hello there!
Germanistan have same problem and growing.
San Franciscans have the opportunity to vote for a new mayor. Vote vote vote.
LOL!
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
@@ShovelMonkey Joseph Stalin was a criminal and a mass murderer. Trump tried to overthrow the last presidential election with this Stalinistic approach. It's CRIMINAL. Voters in the United States do indeed decide and make a difference and we will continue to decide and make a difference despite criminal attempts to affect the elections.
@@ShovelMonkey😂😂❤
And the residents will still be complaining in 2 years.
I used to go to SF for vacations when it was safer and cleaner. I recently was in CA but deliberately skipped SF. Not interested in my car windows getting smashed and my stuff stolen. Also, I when I travel I don't care to be around homeless camps and drug using zombies.
So in other words you have common sense.
I recently saw a tourist video praising San Francisco. I swear the footage looked like it was shot 20 years ago.
Even SF liberals are figuring out that being liberal is not what’s best for them.
your literally walking around the area I'm delivering in right now, i keep thinking im going to see you Leo! ill be sure to say hi 😁 closed now!
When will people realize it’s the voters fault. Voting in the same kind of people over and over again and expecting a change. Thank you for your reporting
ha. voters? do we really have that breed? as potato head would say , "ah, com' on now".... put your x next to my name, I'm good for ya. hurry before bad orange man gets in the way.
!GONENOW!
Thanks again sir!
Any time!
Leo, welcome back, always good to hear from you.... friend!!👍
Leo.. I don't see a recovery in the city in the near future or in my lifetime. It's a crying shame what happened to the city where I'm from. Thanks Leo for the video.
It was the nicest place in the world :(
They are creating the collapse of society to bring in communism. It is up to the People to stop them - and do it now.
@@Darfailwhen?
@@Jondsmusic decades
How long until the remaining hotels in SF become migrant shelters? That's what the strikers are setting up. They will be out of a job soon.
uh...they are there already dude/
It's telling that a big business left, and it's now used as a local hq for cackle's campaign..look how clean it is...and EMPTY! 😂
Keep making these videos Leo, you're doing a terrific job and your fame spreads; watched a video from a place in Europe that looks as bad as SF and a person commented with "BOARDS, BOARDS BOARDS, GONE NOW! we love Metal Leo!" 😁
Thanks for showing , be safe Leo!
BTW, did you see the report abut the 15 pound rodents that have invaded SF? The article is on zerohedge.
Looked for it, didn't see it. And this site doesn't have search. This site looks like a bunch of people talking shit. Not the news.
Those rodents are not in San Francisco, they are in the delta...Sacramento River area far from developed areas. Writers often associate anything anywhere near the Bay Area as "in San Francisco"...it's nonsense.
Thanks Leo. That note on the window is just further proof of the causes. Great job. I hope your videos help turn things around
You do great work Leo. Thanks for caring about America
Always
Hotel owner: worker strike, not a problem, just closes it down, lays everyone off.
City mayor: Where are my taxes.
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got into this very argument not a week ago with a buddy of mine who still LIVES in SF.
i tell him SF at one time was one of the most BEAUTIFUL cities on the PLANET, its now a trash can/toilet bowl.
he tells me 'stop watching FOX NEWS'
lmao firstly i dont, and secondly ive seen SF the last 20 years. its not the same.
It frightens me how aggressively hostile actual residents are to the blatant reality of deliberate dystopian hellhole many of our SFBA cities have become.
I am a multi gen Californian and local, never lived outside the greater Metro area, and old enough to have a comprehensive memory of the stages of thriving to collapse.
It is so painfully bad and ugly and dangerous across HUGE swathes of our region, spiralling since about 2012 in the bigger city cores, spreading and accelerating rapidly since 2018.
I cannot understand HOW they can refuse to see the truth surrounding them. 😶
Didn't the Hilton stop paying its mortgage in 2023? Ironically, none of those picket line walkers actually live in SF. And I would venture to say that many of them don't even work at the property. UNITE HERE is a garbage union who gives workers false hope. If they are in default with their property payments, how TF are they going to give these increasingly idle workers a raise?
tax payer spend so much money protecting non citizens and other countries their borders than our own cities and territory
Thanks!
Welcome!
I’m always surprised when I hear SF friends complain about how badly the city has deteriorated. They voted for all this.
Best video yet. The extra commentary and perspective was excellant.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The economic implications are crazy!
It is obvious that San Francisco was once a really beautiful city. Thank you for reporting on this Metal Leo. The media do nothing to report on this.
Always, thank you Leo. What a sad situation
It sure is
SF had a charming dirty patina. Now it's just grimey. Especially the leadership.
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
I'm voting to make all America a karl marx regime.
@@georgecoons6872why?
Vote OUT Newsom. Vote out Breed. VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP! Make America great again!
My office was on Townsend, I used to live in Tiburon in the 70’s, SF was my stomping grounds for over 30 years. I swore to never return seeing what Newsom had done to the city, my last visit in 2007. And I thought it was bad at Union Square then. It used to be one of SF’s jewels, absolutely heartbreaking what they’ve done. But the residents must like it, because they keep voting for it.
Nice story it was money not politics big guy
@@Peter-zv6yywhat is that even supposed to mean? Are you talking about the dems killing areas to then buy prime real estate for Pennie’s on the dollar? Like in central CA with congressional caused dustbowl? Are you aware of the legislation taking place in the state? Do you know about London Breed or Matt Weiner or prop 47? Always follow the money, but here it’s entirely about politics and power, which always lines pockets.
REPORTING OF CRIME IS DOWN
- Leo
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Wow, the plywood industry must be really thriving in the US.
Was this Kamala's and Gavin Gruesome's work?
Of course , don't tou smell kamala rotting pussy and gavins fish breath 😂
You just answered your own question.
@@julieclonan2427 it seems to be
Prop 47
That’s a stupid answer. What you think it’s not trumps fault who’s in command oh hea Harris talking stupid, Biden sleeping on the beach common man.
Thank you Leo ❤the two Leo's are Metal Leo and Leo Buscaglia.
and OFC the DEM HQ is open lights on in the MIDST of EVERYTHING THEY HELPED CREATE. the irony is RICH with that lmao
Thanks!
Welcome!
Thank you, Leo. Take care buddy. 😘
Thank you too
Great job Leo
Breed, Board of Supervisors, Police Chief Scott, liberal judges, Bonta, Newsom, and Biden. Take your pick, but they all contributed to this mess. FYI...most voters will still vote Blue.